Growthism: its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

By Herman Daly, Local Futures

We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the necessary precondition for any solution. This is growthism.

Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster

By Peter A. Victor, Resilience.org

The opening chapters of this updated, revised, and expanded second edition Managing without Growth tell how the recent idea of economic growth emerged from the idea of progress, itself only a few hundred years old.

Escaping Growth Dependency One Step at a Time

By Rob Macquarie, Positive Money blog

Nowhere in Escaping Growth Dependency is it assumed that ending fractional reserve banking is the only option for positive change. But the report does claim that monetary reform is often overlooked as a viable area of work for the ecological project.

Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Economic Growth — and We’ll Be Better for it

By Richard Heinberg, Ensia

The end of growth will come one day, perhaps very soon, whether we’re ready or not. If we plan for and manage it, we could well wind up with greater well-being.

Hickel Response on Degrowth

By Jason Hickel, Center for Economic and Policy Research

So yes, let’s dramatically increase clean stuff and reduce dirty stuff (in terms of their share of total economic activity), and let’s do this with massive public investment.  Here we agree.  But there’s no reason to nonetheless keep increasing aggregate economic activity forever. 

COP24: Climate Protesters Must Get Radical and Challenge Economic Growth

By Christine Corlet Walker, The Conversation

At COP24 environmental movements have an opportunity to use their platform to highlight the relationship between economic growth and environmental impact, and even to discuss radical alternative futures that are not dependent on a growth-based economy.

The Climate Crisis as Seen by the Economics Mainstream

By Brian Davey, Feasta

Although the effects of climate change seem to be near to apocalyptic over the long term, over the short term taking signficant action to cut emissions also appears to be a tremendous challenge.

How the Light Gets In

By Tim Jackson, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

It’s probably fitting that Michael Liebreich’s The Secret of Eternal Growth was published so close to Halloween. It’s so full of outlandish bogeymen, it sits perfectly alongside the ghouls and the ghosts of the trick-or-treat season.

The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking

By Rob Dietz, Resilience.org

We desperately need an economy that can meet humanity’s needs without risking environmental meltdown and undermining the basis for civilization. It’s a smaller economy, but one concerned with meaning and purpose rather than growth.

Can we Solve Both the Economic Crisis and the Environmental One? Seeking New Models in Uncertain Times

By Mia Gray, Betsy Donald, London School of Economics and Social Policy

Our society needs a real conversation about the meaning and nature of economic growth. In a time of populist politics and rising regional discontent, it is more important than ever to examine new models and approaches of sustainable, equitable and just development.