When? Wednesday May 20th at 15h CET
Where? Online
A conversation about communicating economic transformation in practice, with Sara Al-Mahdi, Alvaro Alvarez Ricciardelli, Emma Panciera and Dickon Bonvik-Stone.
Ideas like degrowth, post-growth, the well-being economy, and related approaches are gaining attention across climate, democracy, and social debates. But communicating them remains challenging.
Due to the fact that they question the central role of economic growth, these ideas can feel abstract, ideological, or even threatening. For many audiences, economic growth is synonymous to jobs, stability, and progress, meaning alternatives can trigger resistance.
This panel explores what works in the real world, with practical case studies, lessons learned, and reflections on which narratives and frames help new economic thinking resonate, and which backfire
Green growth advocates praise resource efficiency for its potential to incentivize the economy and lower its ecological impact. On the other hand, the Jevons Paradox, describes multiple situations (or rebound effects) in which increased efficiency leads to further consumption (either direct or indirect) which offsets the initial ecological benefits achieved. In this piece, I join this discussio...
There is a wide range of emancipatory alternatives working towards a social-ecological transformation. It is more important than ever to underline this. From Brexit, to the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) in Germany, to Trump —the current political turmoil is a clear sign of the discontent that exists with the prevailing system, and that expresses itself through a societal shift towards t...
By Christiane Kliemann With the Summer School in the lignite-mining area of the German Rhineland, for the first time the degrowth and climate justice movement are explicitly thought together. This is why the opening panel "No Climate Justice without Degrowth" had the interesting task to draw the very big picture and join the dots between climate change, degrowth, climate justice and the strugg...
