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France’s Citizens’ climate body explained
Relying on forests to achieve net zero targets not a good idea, and scientists agree
Rapid decarbonisation of energy and transport systems and reduction in emissions are the ultimate ways to limit warming
20 Reasons to Prefer Degrowth to the Green New Deal (as a political option to address the collapse of civilization)
Degrowth carries within it an unmistakable message (stop growing) that gets to the heart of our civilizational problem.
For the Green New Deal to Work, It Has to Reject “Growth”
How pursuing unfettered GDP growth makes it impossible to achieve the objectives of the Green New Deal.
A reply to John Molyneux and Michael Lowy on degrowth
John Molyneux Michael Lowy Generally speaking, my defense of degrowth is mounted against the ecomodernists at Jacobin/Catalyst: Leigh Phillips and Matt Huber, who both stand on Marxist orthodoxy, a…
Can we electrify our way out of climate change – or do the rich also need to consume less? – Developing Economics
As the Artic sea ice rapidly melts and the communities across the world suffer dire consequences, we are experiencing the tragedies from emitting greenhouse gases from human activities into the atm…
Thread by @JefimVogel re Jacobin and Degrowth
Thread by @JefimVogel: Great to hear @Matthuber78 on @jacobinmag arguing that environment + class must be thought and tackled together! Fully agreed - and one of the key goals and principles of Degrowth. But then, ...…
A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth
We absolutely need a Green New Deal, to mobilize a rapid rollout of renewable energy and put an end to fossil fuels.
After Growth
For growth at any cost to become the only realistic basis for collective well-being, other forms of knowledge had to be suppressed or purged—recast as superstitious or irrational.
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
Should the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World by Jason Hickel
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World shows the gulf between green growth strategies and the transition to a post-capitalist economy
The Case for Degrowth: Review
A degrowth society, with its low impact, non-consumerist lifestyles, is seen as largely operating on co-operative and commons principles.
Limit growth: liberate degrowth
Degrowth stands for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite of capitalist growth.