Camila Moreno, expert on "green" energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.
Would you like to continue on the topic? Discussions and actions for Climate Justice and Degrowth are continued at the Degrowth Summerschool 2015, for example with the panel discussion "Green growth" vs. "Leave it in the soil!" - the issue of natural resources.
One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
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...
Das Ende der Geschichte und der großen Erzählungen wurde verkündet und die Zukunft ist kein positives Versprechen mehr. Die gesellschaftliche Diskussion kreist trotz wirtschaftlicher und ökologischer Krise um ein scheinbar alternativloses Gesellschaftsmodell, das den Wachstumszwang des globalen Kapitalismus nicht zu hinterfragen wagt. Können jene Ideen, die sich um Begriffe wie Postwachstum und Degrowth scharen, die Alternativlosigkeit [...]
