By Tad Patzek, Life Itself
How naive it is to think than the "New Green Deal" will allow us to continue our current lifestyles, just by other greener means. This, my friends in the developed, power and resource hogging countries is impossible.
By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia
There are certainly things that can be done to deal with the realities of stagnation and decline; some of them even involve adopting renewable energy technologies, on the one hand, or making sensible preparations for a range of non-apocalyptic but still serious troubles on the other.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
It will not help you make friends among politicians if you make an argument about the inevitability of degrowth because politicians and senior civil servants and journalists are almost without exception true believers in the faith of growth.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Despite my ambivalence about the demands of UK Extinction Rebellion I am really impressed by the way it has shot the climate emergency and bio-diversity collapse up the political agenda and into the public imagination.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Unfortunately there appears to be little recognition that such a Green New Deal must address a much bigger set of issues than merely climate change.
By Emanuele Di Francesco, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
A conversation between Emanuele Di Francesco and Tim Jackson, discussing post-growth concepts of a circular economy, the limits of labour productivity and the dynamics of inequality.
By John de Graaf, Front Porch Republic
In my view, the most glaring omission in the GND is its lack of any challenge to consumerism and our current obsession with economic growth.
By David Holmgren, Holgrem Design blog
It is time for us baby boomers to honestly acknowledge what we did and didn’t do with the gifts given to us by our forebears and be clear about our legacy with which we have saddled the next and succeeding generations.
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
This episode of Crazy Town focuses on the limits to growth, including the growth imperatives built into our economic institutions, and explores how the economy could make a shift toward sustainability. Along the way, Asher, Rob, and Jason take some potshots at Ronnie and his cohort of math-challenged wishful thinkers.
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
We must hold ourselves accountable for our actions before it is too late to prevent catastrophic collapse. When the water runs out we have no one to blame but ourselves.