Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless ( norden.social )
Source: https://norden.social/@hart/112513927064083221
‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Clean Energy is not enough ( quotefancy.com )
SUVs made up 20% of global emissions growth and 55% of car sales globally in 2023 ( slrpnk.net )
This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions....
10 Principles of Good Design - Dieter Rams
Transformation is in Order ( static.wixstatic.com )
The Amazon Paper is fighting Degrowth now
Great news! It is clearly catching on in the states as well.
Shrink the Economy, Save the World? Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing. ( www.nytimes.com )
Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better ( www.scientificamerican.com )
The growing popularity of degrowth ( grist.org )
If you like the idea of a perpetual three-day weekend, you might be one of a growing cadre that supports the concept of degrowth: a school of thought aimed at shrinking economies and moving away from GDP growth as a metric of success, while instead emphasizing universal basic services and social well-being. The idea is gaining...
Fuck the Cult of Productivity ( joanwestenberg.medium.com )
Essay by @Daojoan
FULL SPEED AHEAD!!! ( cdn.ecohustler.com )
"Time for degrowth" ( lemmy.world )
Cartoon by https://newsie.social/@royaards
Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions - The System is the Problem ( www.planetcritical.com )
The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit ( www.bbc.com )
The radical combination of degrowth and basic income ( www.opendemocracy.net )
A Four-day Workweek: A Policy for Improving Employment and Environmental Conditions ( www.europeanfinancialreview.com )
Meet Cargonomia, the eco-friendly cooperative championing degrowth in Budapest ( kafkadesk.org )
15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review ( www.sciencedirect.com )
Arrested for Giving Gifts: Anticapitalist Santa Claus Protest in Copenhagen ( www.youtube.com )
Watching Population Bomb ( www.resilience.org )
The term "degrowth" as political suicide?
I am a degrowther, but people keep telling me it's hard to create media communications campaigns for degrowth and that advocating for it is "political suicide." As if endless cancerous growth isn't political suicide already. I'm told people want growth and we should use a different name for degrowth and that we should make it...