When hitch-hiking, a certain irony is common: Time and time again, the authors' of this post have been picked up by drivers who immediately instruct them that hitch-hiking used to work, but now is impossible. That these conversations were taking place at all would appear to contradict this supposed fact. This is not to say that it is always easy. Roads bar access to their sides for pedestrians ...
Das Konzeptwerk hat eine Replik auf postwachstumskritik.de geschrieben. Die der Webseite entsprechende Studie "Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Eine Analyse wachstumskritischer Argumente" (Funke et al. 2015) fasst die Ergebnisse eines Seminars zusammen, in welchem sich die studentischen Autor_innen kritisch mit dem Konzept Postwachstum auseinandergesetzt haben. Die Autor_innen fragen "Müssen wir W...
By Mark Burton Most ecological economists argue that continued economic growth is incompatible with ecological safety. That is to say continued increases in Gross Domestic Product, (GDP and also Gross Value Added, GVA) cannot happen while reducing ecological impacts in general, and climate change-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in particular. It isn’t a popular message, and is one that ...
