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How to 'decouple' emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can't.
2024-03-04 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.At least, not fast enough to reach international climate targets.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics
A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing – Timothée Parrique
2024-03-02 (or before) in Timothˇe ParriqueTagged under: Degrowth
Post-growth: A viable path to limiting global warming to 1.5°C
2024-02-08 (or before) in Cell PressExisting climate mitigation scenarios tend to project a high GDP growth, even though growth leads to increased energy use and emissions. We show that pathways of low growth make it possible to pursue ambitious mitigation with a slower build-up of low-carbon energy and lower improvements in energy efficiency. Low growth is typically associated with poverty and social challenges; however, we argue that novel post-growth interventions could decrease social inequalities while also helping to protect the climate.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth | Climate Change Mitigation
How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data — Jason Hickel
2023-11-25 (or before) in Jason HickelTagged under: Degrowth
Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist's perspective, it’s inevitable
2023-08-16 by in The ConversationAccess to fossil fuels allowed humanity to overshoot Earth’s biophysical limits. The crises we now face are all symptoms of this overshoot, and the only fix is to cut our demands on the biosphere.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics | Fossil Fuels
Monthly Review | On Technology and Degrowth
2023-07-07 (or before) in Monthly Review | An Independent Socialist MagazineThere is a common misconception among critics that degrowth proponents do not engage with the question of technology, instead leaving the implementation of technological solutions to the planetary…
Tagged under: Degrowth
Needed: Either Degrowth Or Two Earths| Countercurrents
2023-06-16 in CountercurrentsIn reality, degrowth differs fundamentally from a recession. A recession is a reduction in GDP, one that happens accidentally, often with undesirable social
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Economic Growth
Degrowth isn't the same as a recession – it's an alternative to growing the economy forever
2023-05-23 by in The ConversationNot only is degrowth is not the same as negative GDP growth, it is actually better for the planet.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth
Are you preparing for degrowth? And if not, why not?
2023-05-22 by in resilienceWhat’s your immediate reaction when you hear the term ‘degrowth’? If it’s to instantly dismiss it as nonsense or wishful thinking, it’s worth suspending your disbelief as, chances are, what you’ve heard about it isn’t fair or accurate.
Tagged under: Degrowth
Reflections on 'Beyond Growth' | Frankly #31
2023-05-19 (or before) in YouTubeOn this Frankly, Nate reflects on the Beyond Growth Conference held at the European Parliament, including the stunning public acknowledgement by EU President...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth
Volume 1 (2023) | Degrowth journal
2023-05-03 (or before) in degrowthjournal.orgWe are pleased to present the inaugural volume of Degrowth . More publications forthcoming!
Tagged under: Degrowth
Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes 'degrowth communism' as the solution
2023-03-03 by in The ConversationWhat does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Economic Growth
Timothée Parrique: “Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool” | The Great Simplification #32
2023-01-23 (or before) in YouTubeOn this episode, we meet with social scientist and researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University, Timothée Parrique.What is degrowt...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics
Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist • Protean Magazine
2023-01-15 by in Protean MagazineEnergy researcher Nishikant Sheorey provides this primer on the field of degrowth: what it is, what it is not, and what its critics on the left get wrong. Far from being analogous to “austerity,” degrowth is instead deeply aligned with anti-capitalist values.
Tagged under: Degrowth
Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
2022-12-15 (or before) in NatureWealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective. Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth
Research and Degrowth - An academic association dedicated to research, training, awareness raising and events organization around degrowth
2022-11-21 (or before) in Degrowth.orgAn academic association dedicated to research, training, awareness raising and events organization around degrowth
Tagged under: Degrowth
How to Save the Planet: Degrowth vs Green Growth?
2022-09-05 (or before) in YouTubeAs the climate crisis looms ever larger, a critical question has taken the stage: is economic growth incompatible with ecological sustainability? Green growt...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth | Sustainability
A Sexy Future
2022-09-02 by in resilienceI pity them, you see.. Because nothing they’ve done was ever as good or wholesome — or sexy — as degrowth.
Tagged under: Degrowth
Degrowth economy: The climate solution no one is talking about
2022-09-02 (or before) in illuminem.comTagged under: Degrowth
Geoff Mann · Reversing the Freight Train: The Case for Degrowth · LRB 18 August 2022
2022-08-17 (or before) by in London Review of BooksEven for those of us who agree that the pursuit of perpetual growth is a disastrous premise on which to base our...
Tagged under: Degrowth
Ask Prof Wolff: The Case for Degrowth
2022-08-02 (or before) in YouTubeA Patron of Economic Update asks: "I would love to hear you talk about degrowth. It's something I've been reading a little about for a few years. I probably ...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics | Capitalism
Marx in the Anthropocene | Social theory
2022-07-02 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentTagged under: Degrowth
A societal transformation scenario for staying below 1.5C - Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
2022-06-25 (or before) in konzeptwerk-neue-oekonomie.orgTagged under: Degrowth
Degrowth in the IPCC AR6 WGIII – Timothée Parrique
2022-05-27 (or before) in Timothˇe ParriqueGreen growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?
2022-03-19 (or before) in openDemocracyIt’s time to stop talking past each other and unite against the real enemies of environmental justice.
Tagged under: Degrowth
Degrowth: The future that fashion has been looking for?
2022-01-30 (or before) in Vogue Business: Fashion Industry Expertise From an Insider's Perspective | Vogue BusinessTagged under: Degrowth | Sustainability
Degrowth Is About Global Justice
2022-01-13 (or before) in Green European Journal - The European Venue for Green IdeasJason Hickel explains how degrowth can help fix the worsening ecological crisis and what it means for relations between the Global North and South.
Tagged under: Degrowth
Research On Degrowth
2021-12-19 (or before) in Annual ReviewsScholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis posits that such a trajectory of social transformation is necessary, desirable, and possible; the conditions of its realization require additional study. Research on degrowth has reinvigorated the limits to growth debate with critical examination of the historical, cultural, social, and political forces that have made economic growth a dominant obje...
Tagged under: Activism | Degrowth | Economics | Economic Growth | Sustainability
Jason Hickel - Degrowth: The Path to Progress
2021-11-14 (or before) in YouTubeWe have been taught to see progress as the result of capital accumulation, but if you look historically, progress has always been won through progressive soc...
Tagged under: Degrowth
Degrowth: why some economists think abandoning growth is the only way to save the planet – podcast
2021-10-30 (or before) by in The ConversationWe talk to three experts who argue we governments need to find alternatives for their dependence on economic growth. Listen to episode 39 of The Conversation Weekly.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economic Growth
Is Green Growth Possible?
2021-09-27 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe notion of green growth has emerged as a dominant policy response to climate change and ecological breakdown. Green growth theory asserts that continued economic expansion is compatible with our...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Economics | Economic Growth
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling?
2021-09-21 (or before) in Wiley Online LibraryClick on the article title to read more.
Tagged under: Degrowth
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth - ScienceDirect
2021-08-20 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Degrowth
1.5 °C degrowth scenarios suggest the need for new mitigation pathways - Nature Communications
2021-08-06 (or before) in NatureEstablished climate mitigation modelling relies on controversial negative emissions and unprecedented technological change, but neglects to consider degrowth scenarios. Here the authors show that degrowth scenarios minimize many key risks for feasibility and sustainability and thus need to be thoroughly assessed.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Climate Change Mitigation | Sustainability
There's a simple answer to climate change. But will capitalism allow it? - Prospect Magazine
2021-05-24 in Prospect MagazineIn discussions of climate emergency, degrowth has always been the elephant in the room; acknowledged from time to time, but rarely spoken about. But it may be the only solution
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Capitalism | Geoengineering
Degrowth in Movement(s) from Zer0 Books
2021-04-06 (or before) in John Hunt PublishingDegrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons an...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Climate Justice
In defense of degrowth
2021-03-16 (or before) in indefenseofdegrowth.comThe idea of degrowth is contentious, often misunderstood, and (perhaps paradoxically) growing in popularity. In this book, Giorgos Kallis, one of the movement's leading thinkers, presents an accessible, inspiring, and enjoyable defense.
Tagged under: Degrowth
We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate
2021-03-14 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchWe Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate
Tagged under: Degrowth
Less is More — Jason Hickel
2021-03-01 (or before) in Jason HickelHow Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin Random House)
Tagged under: Degrowth
Living the Good Life in a Non-Growth World --- The Talk Version – Economics from the Top Down
2021-02-18 in Economics from the Top Down – New ideas in economics and the social sciencesThe talk version of my recent paper on degrowth.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics | Economic Growth
The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less
2019-05-31 (or before) in VICEThe 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?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth
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