Aggregate material footprint as a proxy for environmental pressures: A response to Max Roser
by Lorenz Keyßer (Twitter: @LorenzClimate), Post-Growth Zürich (postgrowthzurich.org) On 2nd February, Max Roser tweeted the following text: “Material Footprint’ is a terrible metric, but it is unfortunately used as one of the indicators of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. A metric that allows you to offset the use of a ton of coal by using […]
An essay on decoloniality and degrowth
by Jolena Pang My grandfather migrated from China to Hong Kong in his younger years. The 40’s and 50’s were spent making ends meet on stolen streets, British soldiers berating his poor English and foreign appearance. They beat him up on one occasion, and so he learned better how to deal with the oppressor. He […]
Foundations of Degrowth: Internal Colonialities
Lucía Cano, Aunindo Ghosh, Viktor Humpert, Ciara Leonard, Aeve Ribbons & Andrew Moore As a child, my grade school classmates and I walked west through a predominantly black neighborhood in Philadelphia. Martin Luther King had been assassinated just seven years earlier. As we walked, our little white bodies drew attention. We absorbed sideways glances, […]
The knots of our past
Author: Laura Chica Castells, Contributions: Zhaona Zhaona, Xenia Leito, Luke Deries-Glaister, Morena Hanbury Lemos, Nicolas Makeiew Imagine the world in the 60’s. What you imagine will be completely different depending on your positioning. In Mongolia, Juna’s grandparents were on the move, they moved from current Mongolia to inner Mongolia for work. When it was time, […]
Story of Degrowth and Coloniality: Identity, Belonging and Language
by Amira, Ken, Cat, Gosia, Roxanne As a child, my family and I lived In a beautiful country, in nature, and we lived off the land. I was six years old and because I had to help my family on the farm, I did not go to school. I woke up early, ate my […]
Constructive criticism of degrowth is NOT support for growth: a response to Forbes
By Vandana Sharma and Gabriela Cabaña In a recent article for Forbes, Corbin K Barthold makes several allegations against the idea of degrowth without having a clear understanding of the concept. He also includes some quotations – originally reported in a different article (by Aaron Timms) – from a vibrant classroom discussion which took place […]
Degrowth seen from The New Yorker
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis. By John Cassidy February 3, 2020 In 1930, the English economist John Maynard Keynes took a break from writing about the problems of the interwar economy and indulged in a […]
Conversations on Degrowth: Exploring the Slow Movement
Authors: Lyudmyla Khrenova, Zhanara Yessenova and Riya Raphael In this conversational blog, we seek to explore slow movement in order to gain insight, challenge some of the norms and enjoy a conversation over tea! We aim to link degrowth and “slow” and explore whether slow could be compatible with degrowth and in what way. Zhanara: […]
Making power asymmetries visible
Our experiences during the Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice By Karoline Pöggel, Camila Nobrega, Leonie Sontheimer “There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise.” This quote comes from an Audre Lorde´s book, published in 1984. (1) It is not exactly a challenge, however, to affirm how up-to-date it is. The […]