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The climate crisis: a struggle for economic power and leadership

10.12.2015

The climate crisis is a consequence of our economic system. Economic solutions, like carbon trading were supposed to be a problem solver. Despite such efforts, CO2 levels kept rising. Should we consider changing our economic system instead? And which role do environmental NGOs play in the battle for climate justice?

Joanna Cabello, activist and researcher on environmental justice and part of the Carbon Trade Watch collective, speaks about false solutions and grassroots activism. Joanna´s blog article "Where to begin with climate justice" is available here.

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Book review: ‘Degrowth/Postwachstum’. A German introduction to Degrowth

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By: Gerrit Stegehuis

Last summer, Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter, both from the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie in Leipzig, published the book ‘Degrowth/Postwachstum’. With this book, they provide the first introduction to degrowth in German. For lack of a good German translation of ‘degrowth’ they use ‘Postwachstum’ more or less as a synonym. First they describe how our societies came to depend on growth, and they...

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Accelerationism… and degrowth?

By: Aaron Vansintjan

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...

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Wachstum vorprogrammiert – Der blinde Fleck der Klimaschutzszenarien

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By: Kai Kuhnhenn

Wir alle benutzen täglich Modelle, um unsere Umwelt zu erklären. Ein Beispiel: Ich gehe davon aus – und bin mir dabei ziemlich sicher –, dass ein Baum wächst, wenn er genug Wasser, Nährstoffe und Sonne bekommt. Ich habe dabei ein simples Modell eines Baumes im Kopf, ohne genau zu verstehen, was in dessen Wurzelwerk, Stamm, Blättern und Zellen so alles passiert. Unser Modelldenken nutzen ...