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?
degrowth
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.
Transformation or Replication? On the Aftermath of the Greek Government Shift
We might err, but we believe that in the night of the elections in January 2015 a symbolic “tipping point” has been reached in Greece…
The Degrowth Alternative
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
Response by Giorgos Kallis to Brian Davey’s review of Degrowth
If climate disaster, degrowth and whatever else the future holds for us is “involuntary” and the best we can do is to become “resilient” in “transition towns”, then what is the point of an international “cap and share”, like the one your propose, or any other mitigation action for that matter?
Review: The Great Transition – The End of Growth?
We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works.
Review: Degrowth – A Vocabulary for a New Era
Before anything else it seems important to say that there are lots of chapters in this book that I think are quite excellent as short pithy descriptions of the key concepts of degrowth.
Public Health’s Response to Decline: Loyalty to the 1%
American institutions are in decline and rife with corruption brought on by a combination of hitting the limits to growth while under the control of neoliberal capitalism.
