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 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...
By Lyda Fernanda Forero There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences. This consensus is reinforced by the human and environmental disasters (tragedies) that occur every year due to extreme climate events, such as the typhoons of growing intensity including Haiyan(2013) in the Philippines or the hurricanes that devastate Central America....
Interview mit Anna Holthaus Anna Holthaus ist Vorstandsmitglied der BUNDJugend. Seit 4 Jahren engagiert sie sich in der BUNDJugend dafür, die Schritte für einen sozial-ökologischen Transformationsprozess und eine Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum anzusteuern. Erfreulicherweise ist die BUNDJugend ein wichtiger Unterstützer der Degrowth-Konferenz in Leipzig. Im Rahmen der Interviewreihe des Projekts “Stream towards Degrowth” blickt Anna Holthaus aus [...]
