Die Degrowth-Summerschule 2015 fand gemeinsam mit dem Klimacamp im Rheinland statt. Das Rheinland ist eines der größten Braunkohle-Abbaugebiete und die größte CO2-Quelle in Europa. Um gegen klimaschädliche Industrie und Ressourcenausbeutung zu protestieren, kamen hier verschiedene Bewegungen zusammen, um sich für Alternativen und eine soziale Transformation einzusetzen. Ein Video von Raute Film.
Degrowth Summer School & Climate Camp 2015 von Marc Menningmann bei Vimeo.
One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
The picture above shows some of the statues decorating the northern entrance of the Corvinus University in Budapest where the recent Degrowth Conference took place. The building has not always been a university. It once was a place of trade, and the statues over the entrance depict virtues which, back then, were considered central to trade. Virtues like courage, faith, love and honesty. When di...
