Needed: Either Degrowth or Two Earths
I remain convinced that a phaseout of fossil fuels is a small but urgently needed first step that could lead to degrowth and eventually a steady-state society that lives within ecological limits.
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Fusion: It’s messier and harder than you think
Fusion energy has long been touted as a panacea for our energy woes. Even if we are someday able to produce more energy than we consume in creating fusion reactions, fusion will turn out to be far messier and harder to implement than most people realize.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 105 Laura Oldanie
Laura Oldanie is a green living and money coach who blogs at Rich & Resilient Living, where she explores money and lifestyle choices for a regenerative future. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You?
A new report seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the ‘polycrisis,’ the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.
Crazy Town: Episode 77. The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk
Meet Elon Musk, the Muskian mogul who Elon Musks his way to the pinnacle of Muskitude.
The lives of others
We Don’t See Where Stuff Comes From. We grow up staring at screens without ever seeing the coal plants that power them, speed down motorways without ever visiting the oil derricks that fuel them, and eat the equivalent of several animals a year without having to wrestle them or smell blood.
If You’re Driving Off a Cliff, Do You Need a Faster Car?
Either we recover collective wisdom faster than our machines can develop artificial executive intelligence, or it’ll likely be game over.
Are we missing something about the coming population decline?
As predictions about world population decline proliferate, the causes almost never include the toxic chemicals that are dramatically undermining human fertility worldwide.
Is Kelp the Next Ocean Hero? Only if We Can Protect It
Kelp forests are one of the “most widespread and valuable marine ecosystems on the planet,” according to a United Nations Environment Programme report released in April.
A Note on the Social Ecology of Capital
A Social Ecology of Capital is a contribution to the critical analysis of capitalist growth and its environmental contradictions.
‘The Collapse of Complex Societies’
Looking to civilisations of the past from our existence today, clearly history does not precisely repeat itself; but it certainly rhymes.
‘The Future is Degrowth’ and ‘Degrowth & Strategy’: a Review in Dialogue
While it is now largely clear what degrowth is striving for, how to realize the transformation towards this end-state has not been engaged with satisfactorily.
