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.
Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations. Degr...
By Sam Bliss Growth means a process of increasing in physical size. When we think of economic growth, it is difficult to fathom what exactly grows, since 'the economy' is an invented concept that describes billions of human interactions as if they were one giant entity. But gross domestic product is a rate -- the total money value of economic activity per year -- and thus growth really means ...
Die Initiative LebensLernOrte ist ein von der Sinn-Stiftung initiiertes und mit Partnern getragenes Netzwerk. Ihr Ziel ist es, Menschen mit Erfahrungsräumen ‘gelebter Zukunft’ in Verbindung zu bringen und Lernprozesse zu begleiten. Jonathan Klodt arbeitet als Koordinator des Netzwerks LebensLernOrte. Auch mit ihm haben wir ein Interview geführt, das fiktiv im Jahre 2030, in einer Zeit [...]
