We at Research & Degrowth are repeatedly being told that our framing won't work. That we are preaching to the choir by the way we frame our proposals, and that we will never convince the broader public. So, here are our policy proposals re-framed in the language of the U.S. elections.
Abolish all income tax on incomes lower than $50,000 dollars per year. Finance this tax break by establishing a sovereign carbon fund financed by charges to the oil, coal and natural gas industry and by a carbon fee on trade imports.
Make Friday a day off that we can dedicate to our families, friends and communities. Do not reduce salaries: same pay for four days of work. President Roosevelt did it during the Great Depression. This alone can create 10 million new jobs.
No bank should lend more than its deposits. Banks cannot be allowed to create money out of thin air, while all the rest of us have to work hard just to get by.
Each and everyone should have the freedom to choose how to live their lives free from illness, hunger or fear. Establish a permanent freedom income of $800 per month, for every American. Pay for the income like Alaska did with a sovereign carbon fund. If this is not enough, finance it with a sovereign capital fund, funded by a progressive fee on excessive capital.
Hard-working Americans should have the right to inhabit housing assets that are left unused for more than one year for the purpose of speculation.
The left's strange bedfellows Over a year ago I lived in Barcelona, where I was lucky enough to witness a social movement—in large part fuelled by cooperatives, squats, and other autonomous spaces—win the mayoral elections. I had spent the year being involved with a group that studies and advocates ‘degrowth’—the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable s...
Der Call for Courses für unsere Degrowth Konkret - Klimagerechtigkeit Sommerschule 2015 ist nun verlängert bis zum 7. Mai. Die Sommerschule findet vom 9. bis 14. August 2015 im Braunkohleabbaugebiet Rheinland zusammen mit dem Klimcamp statt. Den Kern des Sommerschul-Programms bilden Kurse, die durchlaufend an vier Vormittagen für jeweils 2,5 Stunden stattfinden. Darüber hinaus besteht auch die ...
... und was die Sommerschule "Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit" dazu beiträgt Von Elena Hofferberth Der UN-Klimaprozess findet mit der 21. Conference of Parties in Paris in diesem Jahr einen weiteren Höhepunkt. Ziel ist die Verabschiedung eines verbindlichen, alle Staaten umfassenden Klimaabkommens, welches die Erwärmung der Atmosphäre auf maximal 2 Grad begrenzen soll. Ob es dazu kommt i...
