Megatrends, das sind grundlegende gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse, die man meist nicht „voraussagen” muss, sondern die bereits seit längerem unsere Gesellschaften verändern und uns auch noch lange prägen werden. Informiert man sich, was alles so als Megatrend bezeichnet wird, so listen beispielsweise das Zukunftsinstitut, die Webseite zukunftsstark.org oder die Unternehmensberatung PriceWaterhouseCoopers – mit leichten Abweichungen – folgendes auf: Urbanisierung, Globalisierung, Individualisierung, Gender Shift, Bevölkerungsentwicklung (als netter Euphemismus „Megatrend Silver Society“), Klimawandel – um nur einige zu nennen. Auch genannt werden sodann SmartCities, Konnektivität, Wandel der Arbeitswelt, Internetkultur & Digitalisierung, Intelligente Produkte & Infrastrukturen. Weiterlesen auf dem Blog Postwachstum
Should arguments for degrowth be anthropocentric or ecocentric? And what does this mean in practice? There is an interesting discussion going on, starting with two recent court rulings in New Zealand and India about rivers being granted personal rights. We present an article by Ashish Kothari, Mari Margil and Shrishtee Bajpai, first published for The Guardian. Several geographically-distan...
The signs from the Degrowth-Conference having disappeared from the walls of the portentous building of Corvinus University, and the streets of Budapest emptied from the stalls and the babble of the Degrowth-Week, the time is ripe for another evaluation-round. The conference can be assessed from diverse perspectives – with disparate outcomes, I suspect. Even if I am relatively new to the Degrow...
The fifth international Degrowth Conference is over, the call to host the sixth has been opened. A lot could be said about the conference, yet I do not intend to give a comprehensive overview, nor examine how it stands in relation with the former conferences. Instead, I want to share five aspects of the conference, which I found particularly insightful. 1. A Degrowth Conference in Hungary? ...
