https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/what-is-degrowth-economics-climate-change/
Degrowth is a radical economic theory born in the 1970s. It broadly means shrinking rather than growing economies, to use less of the world's dwindling resources. Detractors of degrowth say economic growth has given the world everything from cancer treatments to indoor plumbing. Supporters argue that degrowth doesn't mean "living in caves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48G3ox90wss
Support OCC via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimateIn this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at how we can decrease ove

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
Policies that support degrowth include the provision of high-quality, affordable public housing, such as that in Vienna. ... At the same time, there is a need to end the planned obsolescence of

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22408556/save-planet-shrink-economy-degrowth
At the core of degrowth is the climate crisis. Degrowth's proponents argue that to save Earth, humans need to shrink global economic activity, because at our current levels of consumption, the

https://www.popsci.com/environment/what-is-degrowth-and-how-can-it-fight-climate-change/
Degrowth, explained. Degrowth, at its essence, is an alternative to capitalism, Parrique says. But what it absolutely is not, he says, is a planned recession on purpose. Not only does pausing

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/opinion/degrowth-cllimate-change.html
Degrowth, by contrast, calls for a different kind of economy altogether, one that could improve people's livelihoods despite a reduction in aggregate activity: It seeks to scale down

https://grist.org/economics/slow-down-do-less-a-qa-with-the-author-who-introduced-degrowth-to-a-mass-audience/
Once we make a transition to a degrowth society, the pie of the economy won't grow bigger anymore. That means that we need to share existing wealth. Of course, there are things we cannot share

https://theconversation.com/degrowth-why-some-economists-think-abandoning-growth-is-the-only-way-to-save-the-planet-podcast-170748
Published: October 28, 2021 7:02am EDT. Some economists have long argued that to really save the planet - and ourselves - from the climate crisis, we need a fundamental overhaul of the way our

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of the hegemony of economic growth perpetuated by capitalism, and calls for an equitable and democratically-led downscaling of production and consumption in industrialised countries as a means to achieve environmental sustainability, social justice and well-being.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190718-degrowth
Degrowth. Economic growth is leading to overconsumption and climate change. Degrowth argues that shrinking our economies can have benefits. We all need to work and buy things to live

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/economy/degrowth-climate-cop27/index.html
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently cited degrowth in a major report. The European Research Council just allocated roughly $10 million to Kallis and two peers to explore

https://theconversation.com/life-in-a-degrowth-economy-and-why-you-might-actually-enjoy-it-32224
In a world of 7.2 billion and counting, we need to think hard about our fair share. Karpov Oleg/Shutterstock. At this point, mainstream economists will accuse degrowth advocates of

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/ecologue/2021/09/02/degrowth-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-necessary/
Defining Degrowth. Degrowth is a deliberate process of transitioning the economy from one that harms ecosystems to one that works with and within ecosystems. A good definition provided by Schneider et al is the "equitable downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions at the local

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nilsrokke/2023/08/21/rethinking-growth-is-degrowth-the-answer-to-a-sustainable-future/
Sometimes the term degrowth is confused with post-growth, a common designation of the various paths we can take when growth has stopped or declined. This gives more freedom to choose paths that

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/why-degrowth-only-responsible-way-forward/
This is why degrowth envisions a type of human flourishing that does not depend on better technology, although it includes innovation. ... What we do need is a genuinely democratic and radical

https://hbr.org/2020/02/why-de-growth-shouldnt-scare-businesses
This opens new opportunities for firms, if they act now. The concept of degrowth dates back to the 1970s, when a group of French intellectuals led by the philosopher Andre Gorz proposed a simple

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth
Since rising productivity is a key component of G.D.P. growth, that growth will be further constrained by the expansion of the service sector. But, again, this isn't necessarily a failure. "In

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2020/9/10/degrowth-and-mmt-a-thought-experiment
In the scenario I have described, the majority of provisioning is done directly. So, exchange-value (GDP) might decline but use-value (access to the things we need to live well) improves. Now, some degrowth scholars have worried about MMT in the past, because we know that debt is always a bad thing when it comes to resource and energy use.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/03/why-we-need-degrowth
Why We Need "Degrowth". Leading philosopher Kohei Saito defends the controversial idea of "degrowth communism.". Marxist philosophers do not often write bestsellers, but as the New York Times wrote in a profile of Kohei Saito, his work has unexpectedly taken Japan by storm: "When Kohei Saito decided to write about "degrowth

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-why-degrowth-is-the-worst-idea-on-the-planet/
The population and economic growth rates of the past half-century are remarkably fast by historical standards. Between 1800 and 1945, for example, the world's economy grew less than 1.5 percent

https://steps-centre.org/blog/why-we-need-degrowth/
Why we need Degrowth. February 29th, 2016 Steps Admin 2 Comments. ... Again, what I criticized in my talk and what we criticize as a degrowth community is capitalism's need for limitless Growth (the aggregate of what each individual firm needs in order to stay competitive in a capitalist economy). David Harvey argues that this is the most

https://climatalk.org/2023/03/05/degrowth-post-growth-policies-green-economics-economy/
Mar 5, 2023. by JP Arellano. The degrowth movement is gaining momentum and is beginning to make both positive and negative headlines [1,2,3]. As some degrowth policies are starting to enter the popular discourse, ClimaTalk wants to provide our readers with an analysis of this movement and its rationale as we cover more degrowth policies and ideas.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222
Jason Hickel. Degrowth is a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being. Over the past few years, the idea has attracted significant attention among academics and social movements, but for people new to the idea

https://grist.org/looking-forward/what-can-you-do-with-a-degree-in-degrowth/
Big questions, but ever since we at Looking Forward and The Green Fix first learned about this unique degree program, we've been wanting to find out what it's really like to study degrowth

https://www.westernjournal.com/comes-degrowth-communism-globalists-left-want-suffer-save-planet/
Degrowth communism is merely the latest iteration of what was previously called the "degrowth movement" in the 1970s — only this time it looks to Marxism for inspiration. ... All we need do to bring about this utopia is stop consuming and agree to government-imposed draconian regulations and enforcement. Saito no doubt arrived at his

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/
If it seems like things are kind of off these days, you're not alone. Recently, more than 100,000 people liked a post marking the start of the pandemic that said, "[Four] years ago, this week

https://countercurrents.org/2024/06/a-decolonisation-degrowth-alliance-a-powerful-agenda-for-the-global-south/
This would mean, that degrowth thinking would need to start from the South to the North and strongly correlate linear economic growth with Eurocentrism which is a polarising global project

https://www.ft.com/content/1355ccd9-4a2d-49d2-9e42-250aab0c38aa
Yes, we can do that, too. Much will depend on how well Apple's in-house AI models work — an important question, given the challenges such systems have in returning accurate results.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/opinion/progressives-california-portland.html
We need to get our act together. Less purity and more pragmatism would go a long way. But perhaps the first step must be the humility to acknowledge our failures.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2024/06/19/juneteenth-2024-when-bank-stores-closures-federal-holiday-celebrate/74137168007/
Why do we celebrate Juneteenth? Juneteenth is a holiday marking slaves in Texas learning in 1865 that they had been freed by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.The executive