The climate crisis is a consequence of our economic system. Economic solutions, like carbon trading were supposed to be a problem solver. Despite such efforts, CO2 levels kept rising. Should we consider changing our economic system instead? And which role do environmental NGOs play in the battle for climate justice?
Joanna Cabello, activist and researcher on environmental justice and part of the Carbon Trade Watch collective, speaks about false solutions and grassroots activism. Joanna´s blog article "Where to begin with climate justice" is available here.
As Vincent Ligey, coordinator of the Budapest Conference organizing team mentioned in the closing plenary, it was an experiment to hold an international degrowth conference in a former socialist country where the soil for degrowth ideas is not particularly fertile. The more it came as a surprise that the conference had received a widespread coverage in Hungarian media. Szandra Koves, press out...
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...
Viele Publikationen, die für Suffizienz und eine Abkehr vom Wachstums-Paradigma plädieren, adressieren allein an die Politik. Sie müsse für veränderte Rahmenbedingungen sorgen, „damit gutes Leben einfacher wird“ (Schneidewind/Zahrnt). Sie müsse das Geldsystem in ein Vollgeld-System umwandeln (Huber) und/oder endlich eine ökologische Steuerreform durchführen (Binswanger/Nutzinger), um den Naturverbrauch mit monetären Anreizen zu reduzieren. So richtig diese Argumentationen [...]
