Post Growth: Excerpt
By Tim Jackson, Resilience.org
Our prevailing vision of social progress is fatally dependent on a false promise: that there will always be more and more for everyone.
Tag: critiques of capitalism
Brave New Normal
By Tomasz Falkowski, Uneven Earth
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic.
Invisible workers, invisible systems
By Mark H. Burton, Steady-State Manchester
We have to make profound changes to the way we all live, and that includes work. The problem is getting a toehold on the system whose parts are mutually reinforcing and and locks in destruction with its incessant expansion.
Living Ecologically Is Illegal
By Melissa Troutman, Mark Ruffalo, YES! magazine
How do we live together, on this planet, in a way that is good for all? This is a question that has driven our work as storytellers for the past six years and inspired our coverage of the Rights of Nature movement.
The greatest debt crisis in history is upon us
By John Smith, Open Democracy
We must engage with the just struggle to write off the uncollectible foreign debt which, aggravated by the social and economic effects of the pandemic, is threatening the survival of the peoples of the South.
The Needful Garden
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Our systems do not meet our needs. None of them are designed to do so. It is time to make new systems.
Coronavirus, Capitalism and Eco-communitarianism
By Sirio López Velasco, Resilience.org
In this article, the author takes stock of the capitalist response during the pandemic to the educational and health challenge in contrast to the eco-communitarian response.
Katherine Gibson and the Community Economies Research Network
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
A primary goal of the Community Economies literature is to “decenter” capitalism as the reference point for thinking about alternative economic projects. Why must everything be seen through the normative lens of capitalism?
Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective
I reject capitalist realism as unrealistic, as an artefact of false consciousness; as false consciousness itself, blind to its ecocidal nature.
Review: Capitalism and Environmental Collapse by Luiz Marques
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Capitalism and Environmental Collapse is an exhaustive summary of today’s plethora of existential ecological threats, followed by an equally comprehensive discussion of what author Luiz Marques deems to be the core fallacies at their root.
How capitalism started, and why it still matters
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
In fact, capitalism isn’t particularly about markets or selling things. This needs stressing over and over, because powerful narratives to the contrary repeatedly fool us into supposing otherwise.
Musings on a soufflé dish or why capitalism has no space for love
By Inez Aponte, Growing Good Lives
That is why there is no room for love in capitalism. You cannot love a thing and at the same time be indifferent to its demise.