Even “sustainable” technology such as electric vehicles and wind turbines faces physical limits and exacts environmental costs - By Chirag Dhara, Vandana Singh on June 20, 2021 source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-delusion-of-infinite-economic-growth/ Credit: Getty Images The electric vehicle (EV) has become one of the great modern symbols of a world awakened to the profound challenges of unsustainability and climate change. So much so … Continue reading The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth – Chirag Dhara + Vandana Singh – 2021
source: John Feffer 2021 resilience.org , originally published 20-12-2021 by Foreign Policy In Focus GaiaMoney is revisiting DeGrowth for Xmas with John Feffer's question: "Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it’s too late?" "Over the last three decades, a growing number of scientists and ecologists have argued … Continue reading The “Selling” of DeGrowth – or how to soft sell the hardest sale ever – by John Feffer
Today the news fed me two tipping points for the price of one : Amazonia and plastics. How do climate tipping points happen? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
>post- orgs Post-growth Economics Network postgrowth.org/ "for a future better not bigger" Post Growth Institute postgrowthplanning Collective for leading common spaces beyond growth >post apocalypse theguardian.com/ 2021 New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse - Study citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience Bunker repurposed for a … Continue reading POST -apocalypse -capitalism -growth -imperial – status quo
endorsements A way to understanding an alternative future. – Juliet Schor, Sociology, Boston College A book of dazzling breadth, provocative and persuasive scholarship. – Sylvia Marcos, Mexican feminist activist and scholar For too long the North has imposed its one-size-fits-all agenda on the South. – Dan O’Neill, economist, University of Leeds This Dictionary … Continue reading diversity 101 = pluriverse
Annas kemtvätt economist 12-11-2022 Economic growth no longer means higher carbon emissions - As politicians gather in Egypt, a reason for optimism economist.com 15-10-2022 Energy shocks can have perverse consequences - The 1970s offer unhappy lessons for policymakers science.org 2019 Unraveling the claims for (and against) green growth - Can the global economy grow indefinitely, … Continue reading GROWTH – green GdP growth, green eco-capitalism, de-coupling
85% are thinking about it see also >DeGrowth >Growth! What Growth? >Ecological Economics >Greenwash >Green Finance/Investment/ESG >organisations, publications, local cusp.ac.uk Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperityy /Tim Jackson academia.edu/ Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology,geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present … Continue reading SUSTAINABILITY – eco- green- de-GROWTH -ALT alt ESG -transition
Little Bill has lent his big billionaire voice to de-coupling, the idea that traditional capitalist growth can be cleansed of its polluting effects. Better than denial or obstruction? Absolutely. Every little helps. But de-coupling inside a political vaccuum is kids' softplay. What matters in the adult world is the gravity of power. Just follow the money... … Continue reading Little Big Bill’s Techno Fix
DeGrowth verbreitet sich auch in Deutschland als BewegungsBegriff für Nachhaltigkeit und PostWachstum. Mit der Oekonomie Professorin Maja Göpel hat das Land der Grünen eine Raworth&Nickel kombinierende Ueberfrau und Videostar. Ihr Bestseller wurde selten breit gelobt (siehe unten). Viel Info und Artkel zum Thema gibt es auch beim degrowth webportal: Degrowth-Webportal. Hier gibt es Informationen rund … Continue reading degrowth auf deutsch
degrowth updates here Décroissance, or degrowth, is a story of hope amidst adversity. Just like Xmas. Born of the adversities of a poisoned and plundered planet, degrowthers say "No! No More! Let's get out of the Old National Market Hall of Sickly Scarcity and into the New Global Banquet Hall of Happy Abundance... Yes, contrary … Continue reading DeGrowth or Décroissance anyone? (not just for Xmas)
GROWTH! What Growth? intro/featured/selected – updates here - +here Alf Hornborg writes in his article “How to turn an ocean liner”: “Although soon reduced to a heterodox and marginalized position, the critique of growth has continued to challenge mainstream dogmas of economics and policy for over four decades. Countless debates have raged on what exactly is the problem … Continue reading GROWTH! What Growth?
