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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.