By Sam Bliss, Degrowth.de
It turns out, degrowth is a lot of things: a criticism, a proposal, a hypothesis, a provocation, a conversation, a deceleration, a downscaling, a reimagining, a project, a lens, a movement, a set of practices, an invitation to dream of worlds beyond growth.
By Joe Herbert, Nathan Barlow, Iris Frey, Christoph Ambach, Pietro Cigna, Degrowth.de
Therefore, we advocate for an opening up of spaces for debate and co-production of knowledges on strategies towards a degrowth society, even if this initially necessitates conflicts within the degrowth movement.
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
Ravallion questions a central tenet of de-growth theory, namely, that the ecology-busting levels of income and consumption characteristic of rich nations are not necessary in order to maintain their strong social outcomes. We can say this because there are a number of countries that are able to achieve equally strong social outcomes with vastly less income and consumption.
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective
The purpose of this scoping paper, however, is neither to review the existing literature nor offer another ecological critique of growth, but to extend and deepen the understanding of degrowth by examining the concept and the movement from a perspective that has yet to receive any sustained attention—namely, aesthetics. More about raising questions than offering answers, my aim is to open up the dialogue not close it down, which is to acknowledge that large theoretical territories are traversed without being able to map them all in the detail they deserve. Consider this, then, an invitation to discuss.
By Miriam Lang, Degrowth.de
We are currently facing the most severe migration crisis in history. But this is only one dimension of a broader civilizational crisis. Thus, anti-racist movements should not focus solely on issues of human mobility rights, but also build new paths of solidarity with societies in the geopolitical Global South.
By Susan Paulson, Degrowth.de
If climate crisis has a silver lining, it may be the power to provoke residents of high-GDP high-emission countries to question the portrayal of their own societies as “developed, ” in the sense of full-grown, perfected, complete.
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?