Dass es mit dem Wirtschaftswachstum auf einem begrenzten Planeten nicht ewig so weitergehen kann, ist inzwischen vielen Menschen klar. Was jedoch alles damit zusammenhängt – sowohl mit dem Wachstum selbst als auch mit der Abkehr von demselben – ist oft nicht auf den ersten Blick ersichtlich. Unter dem Motto „weniger wird mehr“ gibt der „Postwachstumsatlas“ von Le Monde diplomatique in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Jenaer Forschungskolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften Einblicke in die vielschichtigen Facetten des Themas.
Lesen Sie weiter auf dem Blog Postwachstum
Degrowth: lost in plurality? There seems to exist a gap in the degrowth discourse around the question of how to move towards a degrowth society. This brings to our attention an important concept - that of strategy. Here, we will use the word ‘strategy’ to refer to how the ends (i.e. a degrowth society) is achieved by the means. Having spent a number of years probing into the degrowth discourse...
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...
By Joanna Cabello Climate justice is a relatively new term. Being a key concept in the Degrowth in Action – Climate Justice Summer School 2015, it is important here to expand upon the different understandings of, and some of the debates surrounding, the term ‘climate justice’ – though of course no single understanding is right or wrong, and no group can lay claim to a particular concept. Alt...
