The Emergency Committee for Rojava organises on Tuesday, December 17th at 5pm EST the end of the year session of their ongoing study group series Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution. This will be a special conversation hosted by Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, the relationships between climate change, 'just transition', and social transformation will be discussed in the context of Rojava / North-East Syria.
In preparation, they recommend reading MG’s groundbreaking zine: From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition.
On top of the ethical, environmental and epidemiological arguments, the animal liberation perspective can also provide an alternative historical view on growth. This article explores the historical connections between animal exploitation, growth and violence, and the lessons these offer for degrowth today. A previous article on this blog argued that degrowth should incorporate an eth...
By Chris Ward Growth is always a goal in many countries, statistics appear everywhere and it’s always discussed. Even small reductions in GDP are met with bitter disappointment; it’s become one of the most important measures in the modern era. And yet there are surprisingly few discussions or resources on when and why this did happen. The special session on degrowth and history sheds some ligh...
Without trying to give definitions of growth or degrowth everybody knows anyway, I would like to emphasize that these phenomena were always subject to discussions. Even a non-economist knows that it is impossible to talk about growth without mentioning ideas like increases in production factors, industrialization or economic development. Any increase has to come to a [...]
