By Degrowth.de Staff, Degrowth.de
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”.
By Christiane Kliemann, Degrowth.de
Finally it is done: all texts from the project “Degrowth in Movement(s)” to be published in English are now available online. Representatives from diff…
By Miklós Antal, Degrowth.de
Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives.
By Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Alexander Paulsson, Uneven Earth
These reservations about degrowth point to the need to clarify what growth traps to avoid when making a transition to sustainable degrowth.
By Federico Demaria, New Internationalist Blog
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.
By Giorgos Kallis, Feasta
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?
By Brian Davey, Feasta
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.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
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.