Though illuminating key debates, Jason Hickel’s recent case for degrowth falls short of its global objective with not enough to offer regions like South Asia.
Degrowth is an economic, academic, and social movement that argues that the objective of constant economic growth is environmentally destructive and that societies should focus on limiting economic growth in favor of producing only what is necessary to fulfill human needs and promote well-being. The major stated aim of degrowth is in materializing a sustainable level of production in our ever-changing climate.[1] It is commonly associated with anti-capitalism and the political left.
Degrowth or post-growth economics is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development. Degrowth theory is based on ideas and research from a multitude of disciplines
I have always had mixed feelings about transhumanism. On one hand, the movement provides fresh ideas and great speculative material, but on the other hand, it seems to suffer from a kind of adolescent "nothing is enough" attitude on every possible level.
Researching the implications of downsizing the human species to better fit the earth.
, Verso Books, United States, June 2022 We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerge
By Irmi Salzer and Julianna Fehlinger Translated by Santiago Killing-Stringer. Originally posted on Activists of the Nyéléni movement protest against food speculation on the occasion of the meeting of the finance ministers of the G20 Photo: Anna Korzenszk
My friend Ben published this, and I feel like it will resonate with other folks who’ve been drawn to gemspace.
Last December we published an article about contraction economics—d�croissance or ‘degrowth’—a topic that has become a major subject of debate, not just within the counter-globalisation movement but in the wider world. The big question is: how should ‘deg
Date: Author: Jason Hickel is one of the leading voices in the degrowth/postgrowth movement, and recently on the relationship between degrowth and technology. He raises a number of important arguments to take forward into our own arguments around digital
Degrowth: International and regional news The solely face-to-face Planet, People, Care: It Spells Degrowth! 9th International Degrowth Conference (29 August – 2 September) will take place within Degrowth Week, a free arts and conviviality festival, in Zagreb (Croatia) but organised cooperatively with neighboring capitals.
The transition>>lab and the whole (I’ve met at least twenty of them seemed to be at the As a matter of fact, the Degrowth conference was a huge mix of activists, researchers, social entrepreneurs, transitioners, ecovillagers, etc. With 3000 participants (
August 27, 2024 Raven Leilani. Photo: Nina Subin For The Nation, Benjamin Kunkel considers Daniel Susskind’s Growth: A History and a Reckoning and Kohei Saito’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, and cites a recent Nature stating that due to the effects o
Trending Now Growth and Degrowth: What Should Ecosocialists say Part Two written by April 5, 2021 Any discussion of growth or degrowth under socialism depends on one’s conception of socialism. In the dominant view in the mainstream media, the academic wor
This book review was first published by Brototi Roy in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and can be accessed Corinna Burkhart, Matthias Schmelzer and Nina Treu (eds)Degrowth in Movement(s Exploring Pathways for Transformation, Alresford: Zer0 Books
SommaireDépliez le sommaire de l’article It’s been two years since I started working on degrowth and the least I can say is that I don’t know a more overused term than this one. Every time I bring up the subject, the same criticisms resurface: Oh yeah, we
Monthly dispatches by Stan Cox; art by Priti Gulati Cox From Books In Real Time: Chronicle of a Fate Unknown, Part 14 In a May 30 for the New York Times titled “The New Climate Law Is Working. Clean Energy Investments Are Soaring one of the architects of
Published: 2021-09-26 Tagged: I was busy writing a post about why Degrowth is an unworkable idea when Noah Smith published his own critical take on it. I think it's worth reading as he makes some excellent arguments. One of them points out Degrowth's depe
Degrowth goes on tour on its own rhythm. 4 days to enjoy the trip between Montemor-o-Novo and Lisbon, walking in the company of donkeys, biking, travelling by train and boat, passing through villages and small towns, until arriving to the final destinatio
Written by Michalis Theodoropoulos “If we do not dare the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable” Murray Bookchin in The Ecology of Freedom Degrowth is the backbone of political ecology and political ecology is at the core of degrowth. Politic
What is the Degrowth perspective on ad blocking and online advertising? From a Degrowth perspective, how would one argue in favour or against ad blocking and online advertising? Degrowth is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological ec
Despite attending the conference, not everyone will fully understand what ‘Degrowth’ is, or the multitude of related terms that will be mentioned during the conference. Thankfully the first session on the schedule is ideally suited for getting your knowle
When I argue for degrowth the word I prefer to use is “sustainability” since that more clearly indicates that it’s not about mindless destruction; it’s about stewardship of limited resources.
R&D PrototypeTraining Education Awareness Address: 66290 Cerbère, France (Energy, Food, Water, Waste, Farming, Hygiene, Materials, Health, Tools, Housing, Mobility, Communication Can Decreix is a place for degrowth in practice existing already 10 years. I
The birth of the word „décroissance French for degrowth and with this the beginning of an idea, can be dated to the year 1972. Already back then, the social philosopher André Gorz asked Is the earth’s balance, for which no-growth or even degrowth of mater