Alex Baumann – The Conversation

Mick Tsikas

March 6, 2024

Huge housing costs make us slaves to our jobs and unsustainable growth. But there’s another way

Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University

This obsession with economic growth is destroying our planet. We must rethink private ownership of land – that’s where it all went wrong.

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January 27, 2021

We are the 1%: the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet

Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, The University of Melbourne

You might be surprised to find yourself in the company of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the world’s richest 1%. This has big implications for planetary survival.

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May 10, 2020

Coronavirus shows housing costs leave many insecure. Tackling that can help solve an even bigger crisis

Samuel Alexander, The University of Melbourne and Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University

The imperative to keep a roof over our head keeps us wedded to economic growth. If we want to halt climate change, we need another way

The costs of keeping a roof over our heads create a dependence on market growth that puts low-consumption, sustainable living out of reach for many of us. Glenn Hunt/AAP

August 21, 2019

Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living. Public housing could offer a way forward

Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, The University of Melbourne

The cost of land and, in turn, housing forces people to buy into the rules of market capitalism, making it very hard to ‘downshift’ from consumer lifestyles. But what if we rethink public housing?

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