A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can we redistribute or secure meaningful work without growth? There is not yet a concrete ‘economics of degrowth’. Lamentably, Keynesianism is the most powerful tool the Left, even the Marxist Left, has for dealing with issues of policy. But this is an economics of the 1930s when unlimited expansion was still possible and desirable.
Read the whole article in the New InternationalistBy Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon Is the world going through an environmental crisis? If yes, who has caused it and where does the onus to remedy it lie? If one is to go by the policy debates and outcomes worldwide, the existence of a crisis seems established, the attribution contested, and the road map for remedies under perpetual review. Each year several international conventions revisit thei...
With the "Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change" published by the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium earlier this month, another world religion has expressed heavy concerns about the pursuit of relentless economic growth. Professor Odeh Al Jayyousi, one of the members of the Symposium, had attended our summer school on degrowth and climate justice right before the symposium a...
Das Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) und die Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg starten heute eine Online-Befragung von kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen (KMU) zum Thema Wachstum. Die Forscherinnen und Forscher wollen herausfinden, wie wichtig wachsende Gewinne oder Beschäftigtenzahlen für die Unternehmensstrategie sind, ob und wie stark die Unternehmen wachsen und welche Unternehmen bewusst nicht wachsen wollen. [...]
