Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future
I agree with the concept of degrowth, but isn’t there a better term for it? This piece by Erin Remblance and, Jennifer Harvey Sallin in the Illuminem blog chimes with my frustration at the use of the word degrowth. We get this question a lot from people who fear that the term “degrowth” sounds too …
From James Martin at the Deep Transformation Network: https://youtu.be/ZtNnX1JWQ4g That is, we have a global — or planet-wide — crisis of governing. This is widely understood. But what is not widely understood is that government is non-identical with governance, and that governments are manifestations of a state system (called ‘government’) which are ‘globally’ held in …
The world economy is shrinking and the population is increasing. Food poverty is spreading. Seen from the top-down the future looks bleak. Our growth-led system is leading to global extinction. We do not yet have a positive future to imagine. My big-picture view of the future is positive. But getting there will be awful. Dissatisfaction …
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair This is a deliberately short piece to make a simple point. The oncoming recession is not a temporary blip in the economy. Unlike past recessions, there can be no more growth to get us …
We have a problem. There are currently two fundamentally different understandings of the word “degrowth”. Jason Hickel’s view is that “Degrowth is a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being.” A planned reduction …
Gail Tverberg’s latest (very long) piece concludes that: We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and …
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