Von Felix Holtermann
1972 erschien „Grenzen des Wachstums“, der erste Bericht an den Club of Rome. 45 Jahre später ist seine Wachstumskritik aktueller denn je. Während die Industriestaaten immer langsamer wachsen, erlebt die Wachstumsskepsis eine beispiellose Renaissance – in der Forschung, in den Medien, im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs. Eine Sphäre aber bleibt außen vor: die Politik. Wachstumskritik gleicht hier einem Tabuthema, spielt auf Regierungsebene kaum eine Rolle. Wachstum ist und bleibt oberstes Ziel der Wirtschaftspolitik. Warum ist das so? Weiterlesen auf dem Blog Postwachstum
This article is part of a series on degrowth.info discussing strategy in the degrowth movement. The introduction to the series and an ongoing list of contributions can be found here. In the article “Beyond visions and projects…”, by Herbert, Barlow, Frey, Ambach, and Cigna, the authors persuasively set out the case for a more explicit debate on strategy in the degrowth movement. Highlighting...
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 Chandran Nair A seminal paper jointly authored by a dozen international scientists and academics and released in April has created a ripple in the conservation community. It is a lengthy essay but what An Ecomodernist Manifesto says is that accelerated technological progress combined with socio-economic change will 'decouple' human economic pursuit from its impact on the environment. Transl...
