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The Degrowth platform of the CUP for Catalonia
The Degrowth platform of the CUP for Catalonia (Adapted from a previous version in Galician published at El Salto. Translated and adapted by Mark Burton and Salvador Lladó.)“By speaking of degrowth, you don’t win elections”, said Juan Carlos Monedero, one of the most charismatic members of the Spanish political party Podemos, a few years ago. But […]
Material challenges of bicycle manufacturing in a post-growth world
Material challenges of bicycle manufacturing in a post-growth world The idea of a world based on active transport, and on cycling in particular, is a recurring theme in thinking on degrowth. This was one of the proposed transformative paths of the Manifesto of the Mouvement québécois pour une décroissance conviviale[1] and this notion also plays an important role […]
“The Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth”
“The Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth” A Review of Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis (2018) In Europe, “degrowth” is actually a movement, while in the US it is barely mentionable in polite society. To question “growth” would be the death knell for any serious politician. So what’s going on here? We live in the same world and face the […]
Pausing the game of growth
Pausing the game of growth Unsplash By Erik Mclean I feel personally guilty for the pandemic. At the beginning of March, I published my PhD dissertation “The Political Economy of Degrowth”, whose introduction ended with the following words: “Let me invite you into a wild thought experiment. Imagine that in one year, it will all stop. In […]
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing fossil fuel energy use for a nation on the basis of either a contracting carbon emission budget […]
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Energies 2020, 13(17), 4304; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13174304 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Energy: Earth System Science Approaches 2020) Download PDF Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing […]
Can Changing Habits for Self-Reliance and Resilience help society avoid the worst of unfortunate futures?
Can Changing Habits for Self-Reliance and Resilience help society avoid the worst of unfortunate futures? Our release of chapter 25 from RetroSuburbia: the downshifter’s guide to a resilient future as a free downloadable pdf is another small gesture to spread positive messages in a time of pandemic. This is especially so for all those locked down in Melbourne, the […]
You don’t have to live like this—review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living
You don’t have to live like this—review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living In her new book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, Kate Soper calls for a vision of the good life not reliant on endless economic growth and points us to the ways in which our current patterns of living are not only environmentally […]
Strategies for Cultural Change: Degrowth and the Use of Space
Strategies for Cultural Change: Degrowth and the Use of Space Degrowth addresses the negative consequences of consumerism (psychological stress, long working hours and positional competition) and discusses the benefits of frugal lifestyles. Henri Lefebvre, a French philosopher from the 20th century, argues that if ideas or values are not physically implemented in space, they become mere […]
The urban drivers of economic growth
The urban drivers of economic growth In the 1980s, cities were defined as the ‘growth machines’ of the economy (Molotch, 1976). Today, urban economists epitomize them as economic ‘triumphs’ (Glaeser, 2011). Cities, intended as dense and mixed forms of urban living organized in agglomerations of economic activities, are presented as the solution to many of […]
Defending degrowth is not Malthusian
Defending degrowth is not Malthusian Self-limitation is not about constraining, but about defining collectively as societies our limits. Political ecology ‘has made strong arguments against natural limits’ and is in friction with ‘degrowth’s .. urgency of less’, writes Paul Robbins. Indeed, political ecologists developed the field as a response to 1970s neo-Malthusianism. Nancy Peluso, Lyla Mehta or Betsy Hartmann have exposed […]
The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less
The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy? In 1972, a team at MIT published The Limits to Growth, a report that predicted what […]
Decoupling is dead! Long live degrowth!
Decoupling is dead! Long live degrowth! If making the degrowth case was like baking a cake, disproving the plausibility of green growth would be the equivalent of turning the oven on. Decoupling is only “a myth” or “a fantasy,” some would say, a notorious fallacy that requires as much attention as the confabulations of Flat […]
How much will the US Way of Life © have to change?
How much will the US Way of Life © have to change? On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia Debates about the Green New Deal—Ocasio-Cortez’s version and occasionally radical varieties such as that of the US Green Party—have incited much discussion about paths to utopia. Central to these conversations is the labour question: who […]
