Transformation is not a metaphor
By Jevgeniy Bluwstein, ScienceDirect
In this intervention I highlight an element that has been overlooked in this important debate about “progressive environmental futures” – the dismantling of fossil capitalism.
Tag: degrowth
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
By Anna Pringle, Degrowth.de
The English-language press is not informing the public thoughtfully of alternatives to our current political-economic system or the impact of unfettered growth on the planet.
What is GDP, and why should we learn to live without it?
By Doug Banks, Uneven Earth
Maybe we should rethink our metrics, measurements, and very meanings of progress, and start reorganising our economies in ways that celebrate human and non-human nature, rather than constrict it.
Degrowth: A North American Vision
By Brian Czech, CASSE
Students and scholars of steady-state economics must have noticed, by now, that the Degrowth movement in Europe has attained far more traction than the steady-state movement has in the USA (or anywhere).
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
By Jason Hickel, ScienceDirect
What degrowth adds is the assertion that growth in high-income nations is not required in order to achieve a flourishing society. What is required is justice.
Is green growth happening?
By Timothée Parrique, Uneven Earth
So, is green growth happening? The answer is no, not really. As of today, economic growth is still a vector of resource use and environmental degradation.
Review: Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
By Burç Köstem, Marx & Philosophy
The wager of the book then, is that environmentalist movements need an alternative vision of limits that begins not from a premise of nature as scarce but rather as abundant, and of limitation not as enforced by outside conditions but rather adopted intentionally as an exercise of political autonomy.
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3)
By Aaron Karp, Resilience.org
The unprecedented drop in emissions resulting from the shutdown reinforces an idea over a decade old yet too infrequently acknowledged—the need for economic contraction in addressing the climate crisis.
Resilience, Re-agrarization and Post-Growth in the post-COVID Galicia
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Centro de Saberes para a Sustentabilidade
The good news is that the path to both improving our resilience and making a viable Energy Transition to a low-carbon economy, while minimizing the chances of catastrophic climate change, is the same: planning a controlled and socially fair reduction of the material sphere of the economy.
The Degrowth platform of the CUP for Catalonia
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Resilience.org
The CUP programme advocates an Ecosocial Transition based on a degrowth of the economy in terms of energy and materials.
Material challenges of bicycle manufacturing in a post-growth world
By Philippe Gauthier, Resilience.org
The idea of a world based on active transport, and on cycling in particular, is a recurring theme in thinking on degrowth.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Five
By Brian Davey, Feasta
The transition into this future will be painful but it will be even more painful unless we radically rethink what is going on and how we all need to respond.