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A Degrowth Perspective on the Coronavirus Crisis

The coronavirus (covid-19) has caused upheaval across the world, deaths of the most vulnerable, closed borders, financial market crashes, curfews and controls on group gatherings, and many more devastating effects. Despite observations that pollution and emissions have reduced, the sudden, un-planned, and chaotic downscaling of social and economic activity due to covid-19 is categorically not […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Inequality, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, economic growth, health, well-being

We Will Survive the Coronavirus. Will We Survive Ourselves?

What an astonishing slap in humanity’s face, this coronavirus. But the silver lining is that it is also a rude wake up call. I say ‘silver lining’, for at the centre of this is a massive humanitarian crisis of illnesses and deaths –  and for working classes who cannot switch to ‘online’ work, whose workplaces […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Democracy, Environment, Health, Indigenous worldview, Inequality, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, democracy, globalization, health, indigenous

Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’

The Covid 19 pandemic is the second major crisis of globalization in a decade. The first was the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, from which the global economy took years to reach a semblance of recovery. We did not learn our lessons from the first, and this is perhaps why the impact of the second […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Free Trade and Globalization, Localization Tagged With: degrowth, economics, globalization, health, localization, well-being

5 ways coronavirus could help humanity survive the ecological crisis

The human tragedy of the coronavirus is immense. Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been infected globally, and millions more have been affected. Whilst infectious disease has always been a part of the human experience, the expansion of industrial civilization has inexorably amplified the risk of new diseases. Uncontrolled industrial expansion also dangerously heats […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Food and Farming, Health Tagged With: climate change, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, globalization, local food, localization, well-being

Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the key backup “renewable” if it otherwise proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. Rivers and lakes are an […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Technology Tagged With: climate change, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, renewable energy, sustainability, technology

Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse

“The collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” – David Attenborough Today’s economics, especially Economics 101, is a major source of humankind’s denial of the possibility of the calamity of all calamities, which our economy is engineering. Annually, millions of students around the world are […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, economic growth, economics, sustainability

Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits

We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the necessary precondition for any solution. This is growthism. It now creates more problems than it […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, economics, globalization, livelihoods, trade agreements

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP.  And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset. Nothing could be further from the truth. I reject the fetishization of GDP as an objective in the […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Livelihoods and jobs, Technology Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, degrowth, economic growth, economics, jobs, livelihoods

How Circular is the Circular Economy?

The circular economy has become, for many governments, institutions, companies, and environmental organizations, one of the main components of a plan to lower carbon emissions. In the circular economy, resources would be continually re-used, meaning that there would be no more mining activity or waste production. The stress is on recycling, made possible by designing […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Technology Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, economic growth, sustainability, technology

Why Growth Can’t be Green

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 stocks and insect populations. These crises are being driven by global economic growth, and its accompanying consumption, which is destroying […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, development, economic growth, economics, new economy, sustainability, well-being

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