Degrowth movement

version française Geneviève Azam The public debate on growth was initiated in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One can mention, among others, the Meadows report for the Club of Rome in 1972[1], the …

Bill McKibben assesses the validity of the arguments that both degrowthists and those who are pro-green-tech make for how we should address climate change.

Degrowth, the down scaling of production and consumption in industrialised countries to achieve environmental sustainability and social justice.

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?

Listen to this episode from Upstream on Spotify. The imperial core—which is comprised of settler-colonial states like those in Western Europe, as well as states like the United States, Canada and Australia—have been stealing the resources and labor of the Global South—or the periphery—for centuries. It started with the direct colonial violence and resource exploitation that marked much of the last few centuries, but it didn’t end there. Neo-colonialism—a term that you’re probably familiar…

Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.

Learn about the degrowth movement and what it would mean for fashion in practice. And explore how the slow fashion movement embodies degrowth.

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The “degrowth” movement offers a romantic, utopian vision. But it’s not a policy agenda.

A coalition of academics and activists are taking on the dogma of growth and calling for a radical reorganization of the economy.

This mega-bestseller has been attacked repeatedly since its publication forty years ago, but its warnings about the climate were alarmingly prescient.

Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.

The Golden State is facing massive power outages and fire tornadoes thanks in part to a weakening jet stream.

The Degrees of Affirmation chart drawn by William Thomas. From the top: It is absolute, It is enchanting, It is evident, It is certain, It is, It is probable, It is doubtful, It is improbable, It is not, It is impossible, It is evil (or rejected) from the book Every Little Movement: a Book about François Delsarte, the Man and his Philosophy, his Science and Applied Aesthetics, the Application of this Science to the Art of the Dance, the Influence of Delsarte on American Dance by Ted Shawn…

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