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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
This means that there are a number of ecological economic needs for a change in the structure of the Nottingham economy which will have to happen – above all relocalisation of economic relationships, particularly in food production.
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, 15/15\15
Degrowth carries within its own name an unmistakable message about its content (stop growing) that gets to the heart of our civilizational problem: the obsession with perpetual growth.
