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.
The debates around post-growth transitions to just socio-ecological futures - while undoubtedly variegated - all emphasize that such a transition will involve a fundamental change in the way we organize economic relations and processes. At a first glance, this implies both a nominal and a structural, change with corresponding shifts in production, labor and consumption patterns. Whereas nominal...
Some people object to the concept of “natural capital” because they say it reduces nature to the status of a commodity to be marketed at its exchange value. This indeed is a danger, well discussed by George Monbiot. Monbiot’s criticism rightly focuses on the monetary pricing of natural capital. But it is worth clarifying that the word “capital” in its original non-monetary sense means “a stock ...
Australia’s two-speed economy, in which those engaged in mineral extraction flourish while the rest flounder, seems to have only one direction: up. Not that people really stop to think why. Most Australians, if you asked them, would stare blankly if you mentioned degrowth, or crack a joke about how it’s tantamount to devolution. It seems [...]
