Sisyphus, Science & Carbon Removal

By Sofia Greaves, Sofia Greaves blog

The choice to back CDR is conditioned by a desire in society at large to meet net-zero whilst maintaining an economic paradigm and way of life.

Green growth

By Winne van Woerden, Uneven Earth

Putting negative-emission technologies and the green growth belief at the basis of the global climate mitigation agenda is an unjust and high-stakes gamble and is not an ecologically coherent approach to the crisis we face.

Frankly: Growth until not

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

This week's Frankly adds a third perspective to the 'growth critical' conversation - that modern society has a metabolism and momentum and will grow - in non-green ways - until we can't.

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The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy

By Michael Joy, The Conversation

As countries explore ways of decarbonising their economies, the mantra of “green growth” risks trapping us in a spiral of failures. Green growth is an oxymoron.

Is green growth happening?

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.

Green growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?

By Beth Stratford, Open Democracy

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.

Eco-productivism: Ecological transition is a political issue

By Louison Cahen-Fourot, Degrowth.de

No one would deny that it is possible to make capitalism greener, nor that it should be urgently done. Yet the proposal of eco-productivism remains short-sighted.

No, the “Environmental Kuznets Curve” won’t save us

By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog

My appeal to McAfee: let’s try to get beyond this sort of thing and engage more honestly with the empirical and theoretical work that has been done, so we can have more meaningful conversations. If we are going to realise our shared goals, we can and must do better.

Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Neither empirical evidence not the application of green technologies or practices discussed in this article support that economic growth can be combined with reduced resource demands.

What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?

By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams

You see, the real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need to change in any fundamental way.

The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”

By Craig Collins, Resilience.org

So, was the film "Planet of the Humans" a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers' phony claim to care about Mother Earth?  Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, "The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete"?

Pulling Out the Tablecloth

By Dougald Hine, Bella Caledonia

The need for economic growth is a social construct, not a law of nature, but this construct is the tablecloth on which our current society has been arranged. The question we face, as the 2020s come around, is whether we can pull the tablecloth out fast enough without smashing all the plates and glasses?