Eine Sendung des unabhängigen Nachrichtenmagazins Kontext TV zur Degrowth-Konferenz:
Permaculture and degrowth are both movements whose foundational ideas were developed the 70’s, just as the evidence was amassing in the science world to be able to explain the consequences of unchecked growth and human-induced environmental degradation. As such, both movements are reactionary and propose a radical, ethics-based paradigm shift away from the globally dominant culture of over-cons...
Degrowth has been described as a “movement” rather than an ideology1, and as such it presents several variations. For some of its proponents, degrowth is a proxy for sustainable consumption, and to a lesser extent production2. A second group of degrowth advocates are those for whom an emerging discussion of “sufficiency” as a societal norm is taking shape, as a result of activism3. Finally, a t...
Dieser Artikel ist im Rahmen der Theoriewerkstatt zu Wachstumszwängen entstanden. Wir wollen im ersten Teil dieses Artikels beleuchten, warum die klassischen Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswachstum für notwendig halten, um die Konsumwünsche einer Bevölkerung zu befriedigen, sowie die Fragwürdigkeit dieser Annahme offen legen. Um es nicht bei der Kritik zu belassen, stellen wir im zweiten Teil mögliche [...]
