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Damit gutes Leben einfacher wird. Für eine Suffizienzpolitik – Interview mit Angelika Zahrnt

12.09.2014

In ihrem Audio-Interview mit den Organisator/innen der nächsten KarmaKonsum Konferenz macht sich Angelika Zahrnt für eine Suffizienzpolitik stark. Download MP3 (27.4 MB) Hier geht es zum Programm der Konferenz.

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Breaking the chains of delusion -Technological progress mythologies and the pitfalls of digitalization

By: Fabian Scheidler

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...

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De-[Constructing] Growth: Decoupling Profits from Unsustainable Production*

By: Nicholas A Ashford

Degrowth has been described as a “movement” rather than an ideology1, and as such it presents several variations. For some of its proponents, degrowth is a proxy for sustainable consumption, and to a lesser extent production2. A second group of degrowth advocates are those for whom an emerging discussion of “sufficiency” as a societal norm is taking shape, as a result of activism3. Finally, a t...

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Re-taking Sustainable Development for Degrowth

By André Reichel In the discourse on degrowth – the deliberate and planned downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet – the notion of »sustainable development« has sort of a bad rap. In fact, sustainable degrowth is intended to replace sustainable development as the central concept under which ecological...