I’m not only sharing this excellent video but also an excellent list of Degrowth Resources for anyone who might be interested in the subject.

Our Wonderful Green Future will only happen in a post growth setting, where we have moved beyond material growth and embraced some form of circular economy.

There are many different versions of degrowth. In this video Our Changing Climate does a great job of breaking down what those might be. As well as dispelling a few myths about degrowth and austerity.

Degrowth, done correctly, will be a time of abundance and liberation.

As a great person once said…

“all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth” – Greta Thunberg

It’s time to move past the fairy tales.

If the video has got you interested, then here are a bunch of interesting links shared by Our Changing Climate.

Research & Papers:

1. Radical dematerialization and degrowth (Giorgos Kallis)
2. Scaling-up degrowth: Re-imagining institutional responses to climate change (William Otchere-Darko)
3. An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–2011 (Rebecca Tunstall)
4. What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification (Jason Hickel)
5. Research On Degrowth (Giorgos Kallis et al.)
6. Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario (Joel Millward-Hopkins et al.)
7. 1.5 °C degrowth scenarios suggest the need for new mitigation pathways (Lorenz T. Keyßer & Manfred Lenzen)
8. Imperialism in the Anthropocene (John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman and Brett Clark)
9. Carbon inequality in 2030: Per capita consumption emissions and the 1.5⁰C goal (Oxfam)
10. The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the anthropocene (Jason Hickel)
11. A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights  (Helmut Haberl et al.)
12. Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 (Jason Hickel et al.)
13. Living Well Within Limits [LiLi] (LiLi)
14. Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario (Joel Millward-Hopkins et al.)
15. Scientists’ warning against the society of waste (Isabel Marín-Beltrán et al.)
16. A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (Helmut Haberl et al.)

Newspapers & Media:

1. For an Ecosocialist Degrowth (Monthly Review)
2. Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable (Monthly Review)
3. Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help (Nature)
4. Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy? (Vox)
5. The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy (The New Republic)
6. Beyond the Growth Gospel (The New Republic)
7. How Much Energy Do We Need? (Low Tech Magazine)
8. Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable (MR Online)
9. Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report (The Guardian)
10. Sustainable Development Index (Sustainable Development Index)
11. Economic growth does not guarantee rising happiness (The Economist)

Videos & Podcasts:

1. How Degrowth Can Save The World (Andrewism)
2. Ask Prof Wolff: The Case for Degrowth (Democracy at Work)
3. Degrowth and neo-Malthusianism: A socialist response (Socialist Appeal)
4. How to Save the Planet: Degrowth vs Green Growth? (OxfordSmithSchool)
5. The Case for Degrowth with Latin American and Indigenous Perspectives (Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida)
6. Fairytales of Growth (2020) Documentary (Fairytales of Growth)

Blogs:

1. The Human Powered Student Building (Kris De Decker & Melle Smets)

Books:

1. The Future is Degrowth (Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter)

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