The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
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.
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Is green growth happening?
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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.
Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Response Part One
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.
20 Reasons to Prefer Degrowth to the Green New Deal (as a political option to address the collapse of civilization)
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.
Green growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?
So, let us reach a truce and build a mass movement to take on the real enemies of environmental justice. The stakes are too high to do anything else.
Resources for a better future: Political ecology
Like a toolbox to unpack and understand the complexity of the socio-ecological crises we live in, political ecology is dedicated to a more just and inclusive world.
