The Degrowth Alternative
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
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?
We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works.
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.
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.
In industrialized societies, where so many people regard economic growth as the essence of human progress, the idea of deliberately rejecting growth is seen as insane.
What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient?
History books usually study social movements of the second half of the nineteenth century from the point of view of the split between anarchists and Marxists.
If there is a theoretical pathway to a significantly smaller economy we should try to identify it.
[I]nternational media, governments and the United Nations enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled “Better Growth, Better Climate” and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in hand….
In this talk, Nate Hagens synthesizes the current landscape of global energy, environment and financial risks while offering suggestions on what to do as a hominid living on a full planet.
The economy of the future is described by different groups with different words in different languages and they do not always exactly translate into an identical idea.