Long before the modern degrowth movement, Islamic economic thought placed limits on consumption, challenged wealth concentration and treated economic activity as a moral question.
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Concern about the viability of ongoing economic growth offers a chance to spotlight accessible reading about fairer economies.
Supporters of the “degrowth” movement say that capitalism and consumerism have run their course.
The capitalist model of endless economic growth is pushing the limits of our planet. How should future leaders prepare?
Local efforts to transform discarded garments and textile waste into valuable products are evidence that fashion and degrowth are compatible.
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced. 10 years ago, his encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published. This environmental text sought to move the Catholic Church and its concern with the Earth back into a leading role.
Should the world’s less developed nations be part of the “degrowth” movement? The debate involves considerations of economic dependency, neocolonialism and ecological debt.
A green new deal is practical, politically possible, and the best chance we have to achieve a just carbon-zero transition in Canada.
Solutions driven by the private sector are only for those who can pay, and also end up driving public priorities.
Scholars believe vertical farming, the practice of growing crops in stacked pots in vacant spaces, could be well suited to degrowth values.
This obsession with economic growth is destroying our planet. We must rethink private ownership of land – that’s where it all went wrong.
Degrowthers advocate cutting investment as a way to reduce use of precious resources, which is exactly what the UK government has been doing for the last 40 years.
One set of ideas runs counter to the mainstream consensus that technology will save us from climate change. Can degrowth ever win enough converts to persuade humanity to change course?
According to a survey of almost 800 climate researchers, 73% are sceptical of the idea of green growth. Instead, approaches such as agrowth and degrowth are gaining ground.
Access to fossil fuels allowed humanity to overshoot Earth’s biophysical limits. The crises we now face are all symptoms of this overshoot, and the only fix is to cut our demands on the biosphere.
Degrowth will make the environmental crisis worse.
Not only is degrowth is not the same as negative GDP growth, it is actually better for the planet.
Human civilisation is headed for collapse. Collectively, we are pushing planet Earth beyond the limits of endurance. There has to be a better way. Now a new book makes the case for systemic change.
What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
As living standards rise, we could see smaller populations but much bigger ecological impacts.
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Professor in Economics, University College Cork
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate professor of marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Sessional Lecturer, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Economics, MacEwan University
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Professor in Transport Planning, University of Westminster
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor, History, University of Newcastle
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Felllow at Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral research fellow in Ecological economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Associate Professor, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
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Professor of Energy Systems, De Montfort University
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Distinguished Visiting Professor in Economics, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg