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Jason Hickel: Degrowth and Ecosocialism
Jason Hickel: Degrowth and Ecosocialism
The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable
The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable There are big problems with the most important metric used to assess progress toward the U.N.’s environmental goals. Art for the Global Goals campaign at Liu Bolin Studio in Beijing on Aug. 28, 2015. JAMES WASSERMAN/GETTY IMAGES FOR GLOBAL GOALS/UNITED NATIONS In 2015, the world’s governments signed on to […]
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth As degrowth ideas speed their way into social movements and academic research, they have encountered some interesting critiques. In a recent contribution to this Virtual Forum, Huber (2021) dismissed degrowth as a preoccupation of middle-class environmentalists in the global North who feel “anxiety” about excess consumption. Such a movement, he argues, can […]
Demateralizing the economy isn’t happening (Hint: All that material is actually hiding in plain sight)
Demateralizing the economy isn’t happening (Hint: All that material is actually hiding in plain sight) If you are trying to prove something is true and certain facts get in the way, it’s almost always useful to exclude them. This is apparently what technology cheerleader Andrew McAfee has done in his recent book More from Less, which […]
A Response to McAfee: No, the “Environmental Kuznets Curve” Won’t Save Us
A RESPONSE TO MCAFEE: NO, THE “ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE” WON’T SAVE US A number of people have asked me to respond to a piece that Andrew McAfee wrote for Wired, promoting his book, which claims that rich countries – and specifically the United States – have accomplished the miracle of “green growth” and “dematerialization”, absolutely […]
Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?
Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick? (NOTE; this is not an analysis of the US New Green Deal, it is about the “green growth” narrative with the European Green Deal as the point of departure.) The European Green Deal is a ”growth strategy that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous […]
We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of Poverty
WE CAN’T GROW OUR WAY OUT OF POVERTY For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on […]
Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates’ BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty
Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates’ BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty Calling billionaire Microsoft co-founder ‘completely wrong,’ Jason Hickels says “those defending poverty line you should be willing to live on it. Lookin’ at you, Bill.” Contrary to what Bill Gates and other powerful, wealthy Davos attendees say, Jason Hickel writes, […]
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown What do Keynesian Democrats think about the movement for post-growth and de-growth economics? Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, DC, has given us some insight into this question. In a recent blog post, republished by Counterpunch, he […]
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer?
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer? Photo Source Anahi Patricia Jasso Aleman | CC BY 2.0 A friend recently sent me a piece by Jason Hickel, arguing that growth can’t be green and that we need to move away from growth oriented economics. I am not convinced. It strikes me both that the piece misrepresents what growth […]
The SDGs: Transforming our World or Business as Usual?
The SDGs: Transforming our World or Business as Usual? Compared to their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a step in the right direction: With their global validity, they acknowledge that change not only needs to happen in poor countries, but in rich countries too, see for example Goals 11-15 […]
Here’s a Simple Solution to the Growth/De-Growth Debate
HERE’S A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THE GROWTH/DE-GROWTH DEBATE A number of high-profile economists – people like Carlota Perez and Michael Liebreich – have recently come out swinging in favor of “green growth” theory, trying to assuage mounting public concerns about the fact that climate change and ecological breakdown are being driven by capitalist growth. What’s […]
Why Growth Can’t Be Green
Why Growth Can’t Be Green New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both. Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian and the New York Times, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish […]
In Defense of Degrowth
In Defense of Degrowth Photo by Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 The economist Branko Milanovic recently wrote a blog post titled “The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world.” He penned it, he says, following a conversation he had with a proponent of degrowth. As it turns out, that proponent was me. […]
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper’s authors, is that the cuts we’re making […]
