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Misc • 2017

Our addiction to growth is harming the climate

Keywords: Global Ideas, Global Solutions, Environment, Climate Change, Economy, Degrowth, Sustainability, Green Economy, COP23, NDCs

Interview • 2017

Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis?

By: Kate Aronoff, Kevin Anderson

"Bonn — This week, world leaders are convening along a sleepy stretch of Germany’s Rhine River for COP23, the first UN climate talks to be held since Trump announced he will withdraw United States from the Paris Agreement, the landmark climate deal arrived at in 2015. Yet while the administration’s fossil-fuel boosterism has grabbed headlines about COP23 stateside, the UNFCCC process has more...

Interview • 2017

Our addiction to economic growth is killing us

By: Jason Hickel

Description by BBC Newsnight: In this Viewsnight, anthropologist Jason Hickel asks if economic growth really makes our lives better. He is the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions.

Report • 2017

Degrowth Is Coming

By: Edgardo Civallero

Introduction: The planet´s biophysical limits exist, manifest in its ability tu supply ressources to and absorb wastes from human activity. This way, exponential growth within finite limits result in overshooting the biosphere capacity to sustain our activities, and places humanity on a collision course with biophysical reality.

Misc • 2017

Entscheidung im „Anthropozän“: Profite oder Zukunft?

By: Redaktion von linkswende.org

Einführung: Über der modernen Zivilisation schwebt das Henkersbeil und der Henker heißt Kapitalismus. Die Erde ist in eine neue erdgeschichtliche Epoche eingetreten. Als Bezeichnung wird sich wahrscheinlich das Zeitalter „Anthropozän“ durchsetzen. Damit will die Wissenschaft deutlich machen, dass menschliche Einflüsse dafür verantwortlich sind, dass wir die zivilisationsfreundliche Epoche des...

Misc • 2017

CO2-Budget ist nur mit Systemwandel einzuhalten

By: Manfred Ecker

Einführung: 2015 hat Österreich bei der UN-Klimakonferenz in Paris ein begrenztes CO2-Budget zugeteilt bekommen. Das bedeutet, Österreich darf „nur“ noch 880 Millionen Tonnen Kohlendioxid (CO2) emittieren. Dem hat die Regierung zugestimmt, aber Vizekanzler Mitterlehner hat auch durchblicken lassen, dass die Regierung nie vorhatte, dieses verbindliche Klimaziel von Paris auch...

Misc • 2017

Gouverner la décroissance - Politiques de l'anthropocène III

By: Dir. Agnès Sinaï, Mathilde Szuba

La décroissance peut-elle devenir un modèle politique alternatif et réaliste ? Face au risque d'effondrement qui pèse sur nos sociétés industrielles, cet ouvrage défend de nouvelles voies fondées sur la tempérance et le ralentissement : instauration d'un revenu de transition écologique, adossement de la création monétaire aux limites de la planète, rationnement équitable des énergies fossiles,...

Interview • 2016

Aus-gewachsen?

By: Christian Hinterberger, Anna Holl

Eine Runde von Expert_innen beantwortet eine Reihe von Fragen zum Thema Wachstum. Fragen: Müssen wir weg vom ökonomischen Wachstum?, Was läuft falsch im derzeitigen Wirtschaftssystem?, Was denken Sie über ökonomisches Wachstum? Expert_innen: Nina Treu, Angelika Zahrnt, Elisabeth Freytag-Rigler, Fred Luks, Roman Mesicek, Beate Littig, Erich Hödl, Max Schachinger, Raimund Dietz

Presentation • 2016

Limits without scarcity: why Malthus was wrong

By: Giorgos Kallis

45 Minute Video of a lecture by Giorgos Kallis at SOAS, London. He explains how the notion of limits can and should be reclaimed from the hands of Malthusians.

Misc • 2016

A Future Beyond Growth - Towards a steady state economy

By: Haydn Washington, Paul Twomey (editors)

Edited by Haydn Washington, Paul Twomey The publisher about the book: There is a fundamental denial at the centre of why we have an environmental crisis – a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However, society continues to...

Misc • 2016

Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years

By: Nafeez Ahmed

Report form the British All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth which launched a report on the same topic. From the text: A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on track to experience “an eventual collapse of production and living...

Misc • 2016

Green Growth - Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

By: Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai, Jose Puppim de Oliveira

The discourse of “green growth” has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centered on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen, and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model. But the green growth project is deeply...

Scientific paper • 2016

Biophysical limits of current debates on degrowth and the knowledge economy

By: Jesus Ramos-Martin

Keywords: Degrowth, knowledge, sustainability, complexity, societal metabolism

Scientific paper • 2016

Green Economy - Mut zur Effizienz und Befreiung

By: Kai Niebert

Herausgeber_innen: In der Postwachstumsdebatte wird intensiv das Konzept der Grünen Ökonomie diskutiert. Als neues Leitbild verspricht es Lösungen für ökologische und ökonomische Probleme. Doch kann die Green Economy das wirklich? Wenn es der Gesellschaft tatsächlich gelingen soll, in der Zukunft anzukommen, ist es notwendig umzusatteln und sowohl Ross als auch Reiter zu wechseln.

Scientific paper • 2016

Economic modelling and Degrowth

By: Federico Demaria, Claudio Cattaneo, Simone D'Alessandro, Giovanni Bernardo, Ilaria Perissi

Degrowth calls for a sustainable downscaling of production and consumption, to enhance wellbeing and environmental sustainability. It is important, for the widespread acceptance of this aim, to show how and under which conditions sustainable degrowth can be achieved. In order to gain a broad political legitimacy, the social and environmental effects of no-growth policies need to be shown and...

Scientific paper • 2016

Exploring Degrowth Pathways Using System Dynamics

By: Therese Bennich

During the 40 years that have passed since the publication of The Limits to Growth, the concept of degrowth and system dynamics have sometimes developed separately. There is now increasing evidence supporting the conclusions of The Limits to Growth and degrowth is a concept being discussed both in the academic and public debate. There is a need to look at potential ways to adapt to the limits...

Misc • 2016

movum - Heft 10: Effizienz und Suffizienz

By: Uwe Schneidewind, Elmar Altvater, Nico Paech, Felix Werdermann

Heft 10 des Magazins movum> zum Thema Effizienz und Suffizienz Kurzbeschreibung: Effizienz allein bringt keine substanzielle Reduktion von Ressourcenverbrauch, Emissionen und Abfällen. Wir brauchen auch Suffizienz – die Befreiung vom "Immer mehr". Und zwar nicht individuell, sondern als Politik. Das Heft als PDF

Scientific paper • 2015

Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Hug March

economic growth, limits, scarcity, scale, utopias

Interview • 2015

Die Grenzen der Megamaschine: Globale Krisen und der Kampf um echte Demokratie

By: Fabian Scheidler, David Goeßmann

Your browser does not support the video tag. Mit Fabian Scheidler, Buchautor ("Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation"), Mitbegründer von Kontext TV Kontext-TV über den Beitrag: Nach mehrjähriger Recherchearbeit hat Kontext-TV-Redakteur Fabian Scheidler sein Buch "Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation" vorgestellt. David Goeßmann...

Scientific paper • 2015

In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy

By: Erik Gómez-Baggethun, José Manuel Naredo

Earth summits, Ecodevelopment, Economic growth, Green economy, Market-based instruments, Sustainable development, Planetary boundaries