Austerity and Degrowth – Dealing with the Economic Crisis and the Ecological Crisis Together
It seems like a tough one to argue for degrowth in the context of the Greek crisis and as an alternative to austerity – but then all the more reason to try.
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Degrowth & the Climate Crisis – from a Climate Justice Perspective
There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences.
Post-Development Discourse: Lessons for the Degrowth Movement
Is degrowth only conceivable in the context of “oversaturated” industrial societies while the global “South” remains dependent on growth?
Greece and the Limits to Growth
Certainly there is reason to pause and to question the idea of infinite economic growth on a finite planet.
Laudato Si: Signalling towards Degrowth?
But whether or not „degrowth“ would make a better translation of the Pope’s intended meaning, much more significant than a single word is the manner in which the letter as a whole points in direction of the territory constituted by the thinkers and activists of degrowth.
If Everyone Lived in an ‘Ecovillage’, the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
Put otherwise, based on my calculations, if the whole world came to look like one of our most successful ecovillages, we would still need one and a half planet’s worth of Earth’s biocapacity. Dwell on that for a moment.
Are We Prepared to Change to Prevent Climate Change?
What is needed to get us out of our comfort zone and fight for our children’s future?
No Climate Protection without Climate Justice; No Climate Justice without Degrowth
…[T]he…climate movement tends to deny…that renewables are unable to maintain our Western…consumer lifestyles on a global level.
Their Recession is not our Degrowth!
Our proposal is not necessarily to reduce GDP (an arbitrary indicator), but rather to ask new questions and search for alternatives to today’s society based on a predatory, unjust and unsustainable capitalist economic system.
A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto
From a degrowth perspective, technology is not viewed as a magical savior since many technologies actually accelerate environmental decline.
2015 – The Year for Climate Justice and Degrowth
Can there actually be climate justice?
Degrowth, Sustainability, and Tackling Global Inequalities
One of the provocations the degrowth movement offers is whether true sustainability, one planet living, actually implies a rejection of the affluent consumer way.
