Täglich prasseln bedrohliche Nachrichten auf uns ein. Wie geht es mir persönlich damit und wie können wir als Gesellschaft damit umgehen? Welche Zukunft wünsche ich mir überhaupt für mich, die Welt und auch meine Kinder? Und wie hängt das, was mich in meinem Leben bewegt, zusammen mit dem Großen Ganzen? Wovor habe ich Angst, was macht mich wütend und wie kann ich diese Gefühle als Antrieb und Kraftquelle nutzen? Weiterlesen auf nachhaltig-sein.info
Eine deutsche Version des Textes findet sich hier. When it comes to technological development, I often hear the words: What can be done will be done – sooner or later. Many people think that technological development follows a path directed by quasi-natural laws that head into one and only one direction – called “progress” – which is: to use more technology, more complex technology, more exp...
In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
By Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta André Reichel’s very thoughtful piece ‘Retaking sustainable development for degrowth’ raises several very important issues. We start by acknowledging that we and Reichel are clearly on the same page in criticizing current models of ‘growth’ including in its ‘green’ and ‘eco-modernist’ forms. We concur also on the need for the world to move...
