Reflections beyond growth (V): Degrowth, fears and euphemisms

Álex López: The risk is clear: that degrowth will remain trapped between unspoken fears and the euphemisms that disguise it.

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Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

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Mark Burton on the Getting Real movement: «A degrowth settlement would improve people's lives»

The most comprehensive statement available on what degrowth might look like at the UK.

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Paralysis by Analysis? Some reflections on the 10th International Degrowth Conference

Reflections on the conference held in Pontevedra (Galicia) in june 2024.

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A (friendly) critique of the Degrowth movement. An outline

Outline of Ted Trainer's critique of Degrowth movement.

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The Negative Interest Economy: A Monetary Paradigm for a Post-Growth System

(Álex López) The Ekhilur Project is showing how it's possible to develop a viable monetary system without the need for growth.

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The Negative Interest Economy: A Monetary Paradigm for a Post-Growth System

(Álex López) The Ekhilur Project is showing how it's possible to develop a viable monetary system without the need for growth.

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The Energy Crisis, Renewable Energies and RR+E

[Luis González Reyes] We are going through an acute energy crisis whose principal cause is not environmental limits but the need and possibility for constant expansion of capitalism on a finite planet. The hyper-technological renewables cannot resolve this energy crisis due to their intrinsic proper

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Debunking «development»

[Ted Trainer] The conventional conception of development condemns most of the world’s people to exploitation and misery. The single most important step in their liberation is the debunking of this powerful ideological trap.

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Open letter to Fridays For Future. It's time for action, but, what action?

Open letter by Marga Mediavilla to Fridays For Future: "There is one thing that worries me. In your speeches on climate change you can find demands for very ambitious decarbonization objectives proposing, for example, the replacement of all fossil fuels by 2050 or 2100."

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