RoberttheReader1d ago

"The phrase “wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries” is particularly powerful since it implies that, in an ecologically constrained world, the too-much of a minority of affluent people quickly becomes the not-enough of everyone else down the line (for more on environmental justice, see Parrique, 2025). "

#postgrowth #capitalism #capitalocene #sufficiency

A response to the World Inequality Lab: Degrowth for global justice? – Timothée Parrique
https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-the-world-inequality-lab-degrowth-for-global-justice/

A response to the World Inequality Lab: Degrowth for global justice? – Timothée Parrique

RoberttheReader1d ago

"Capitalism functions on trade secrets, non disclosure agreements, salary secrecy, secret contracts and negotiations, and a lot of evaded responsibility. All these secrets are meant to protect a status quo in which the fundamental principles of capitalism must be defended at all costs."
#postgrowth #capitalism #capitalocene #sufficiency

https://open.substack.com/pub/sufficiencyandwellbeing/p/we-need-a-moral-qr-code?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6hyrf6

We need a moral QR code

We need a moral QR code on everything that is produced and sold for money in our economy.

The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine
RoberttheReader3d ago
"Years ago, a friend told me, “If you want to create a sustainable society, aim to meet the needs of the poor.” Today I would add: aim to meet your community’s basic needs (food, water, energy, construction materials, governance) with supplies from within your bioregion."
#postgrowth #postcapitalism #sufficiency #degrowth #cascadia
https://katiesinger.substack.com
Katie Singer's Substack | Substack

In our increasingly technocratic society, on a limited income, how/can I live within my ecological means and enjoy peace between my ears? Click to read Katie Singer's Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

RoberttheReader3d ago

".., it is evident that the practice and theory of marketing needs a radical rethink in light of pressing resource and climate issues.

The impact of unsustainable production and consumption patterns has led to this era being referred to as the Anthropocene, in which humans have become the dominant influence on the climate and the natural environment."
#postgrowth #postcapitalism #sufficiency #degrowth
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13162-025-00300-5

Marketing in the anthropocene: A future agenda for research and practice - AMS Review

Marketing is an important function and practice in everyday business. It involves getting potential customers interested in a product or service through value-oriented arguments. In this way, marketing plays a pivotal role in driving the consumption of goods and services. Given the increasing consumption of goods and services, decreasing product lifetimes, and increasing levels of waste in all product categories, it is evident that the practice and theory of marketing needs a radical rethink in light of pressing resource and climate issues. The impact of unsustainable production and consumption patterns has led to this era being referred to as the Anthropocene, in which humans have become the dominant influence on the climate and the natural environment. There is an urgent need to take a new direction to adapt marketing theory and practice to these pressing global needs. In this study, we investigate the following questions: What role should marketing play in the era of the Anthropocene? What concepts, outcomes, tools and theories does marketing offer to support a transition towards Marketing in the Anthropocene? We conduct a scoping literature review based on different research directions and propose a conceptualization for “Marketing in the Anthropocene” as an inspirational, forward-looking concept, tool and practice for marketers and marketing researchers. We highlight relevant marketing tools and theories and provide guiding questions for future research and practice.

SpringerLink
RoberttheReader3d ago

"Given the increasing consumption of goods and services, decreasing product lifetimes, and increasing levels of waste in all product categories, it is evident that the practice and theory of marketing needs a radical rethink in light of pressing resource and climate issues. "

#postgrowth #postcapitalism #sufficiency #degrowth

Marketing in the anthropocene: A future agenda for research and practice | AMS Review | Springer Nature Link
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13162-025-00300-5

Marketing in the anthropocene: A future agenda for research and practice - AMS Review

Marketing is an important function and practice in everyday business. It involves getting potential customers interested in a product or service through value-oriented arguments. In this way, marketing plays a pivotal role in driving the consumption of goods and services. Given the increasing consumption of goods and services, decreasing product lifetimes, and increasing levels of waste in all product categories, it is evident that the practice and theory of marketing needs a radical rethink in light of pressing resource and climate issues. The impact of unsustainable production and consumption patterns has led to this era being referred to as the Anthropocene, in which humans have become the dominant influence on the climate and the natural environment. There is an urgent need to take a new direction to adapt marketing theory and practice to these pressing global needs. In this study, we investigate the following questions: What role should marketing play in the era of the Anthropocene? What concepts, outcomes, tools and theories does marketing offer to support a transition towards Marketing in the Anthropocene? We conduct a scoping literature review based on different research directions and propose a conceptualization for “Marketing in the Anthropocene” as an inspirational, forward-looking concept, tool and practice for marketers and marketing researchers. We highlight relevant marketing tools and theories and provide guiding questions for future research and practice.

SpringerLink
Sy Taffel4d ago

'For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept. While national incomes expanded, wages stagnated, work became more precarious and public services were cut. At the top, fortunes ballooned; at the bottom, families turned to food banks. Growth has become decoupled from shared prosperity.

It has also become ecologically unsustainable. We are edging towards a “hothouse Earth”, where rising emissions and biodiversity loss are destabilising the conditions that support human life. Around 92% of excess global carbon emissions can be attributed to the global north, and the wealthiest 10% of individuals are responsible for nearly half of global emissions, while people in poverty are the first to face crop failures and rising food prices. An economic model that depends on endless expansion on a finite planet is not just unfair; it is dangerous.'

#Postgrowth #degrowth #sustainability #inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/economists-maths-growth-doomed-strategy-un-agencies-political-leaders?CMP=share_btn_url

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

The Guardian
Sy Taffel4d ago

Look what just arrived in the post!

Really pleased that it's finally out in the world - and that it's made it all the way to Aotearoa!

Also, if anyone's looking for an academic publisher in the broad area of science, technology and society I can't say enough good things about Bristol University Press, they've been absolutely fantastic to work with.

#book #academia #postgrowth #degrowth #digital

Genevieve T5d ago

#
Great news from Sy Taffel @sy regarding his book on the radical future of a digital commons

@jessamyn
“Really pleased to announce that my book 'Postgrowth Digital Futures: Digital Technologies, Degrowth, and Radical Abundance' is published today by Bristol University Press.”

Read a summary/excerpt here.

https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/06/04/how-can-tech-make-the-planet-better-not-worse/

#degrowth #postgrowth #digital #tech #sustainability

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/postgrowth-digital-futures

How can tech make the planet better, not worse? - Transforming Society

Sy Taffel, author of 'Postgrowth Digital Futures', argues that digital technology should prioritise sustainability, community wellbeing, and democratic control instead of endless capitalist growth.

Transforming Society
Christoph Becker6d ago

"An economic model that depends on endless expansion on a finite planet is not just unfair; it is dangerous."

Shout it from every rooftop, repeat it on every dinner table, demand it in every parliament.

The alternatives reshape what makes something a "good technology" and change priorities, qualities, and processes. This is why we explore #postgrowth and #degrowth approaches to designing technologies for sustainable and just futures.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/economists-maths-growth-doomed-strategy-un-agencies-political-leaders

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

The Guardian
RoberttheReaderJun 9
"Our over prosperity in the global north has been based on unsustainable, runaway natural resource extraction, achieved through cruel human exploitation, particularly of the global south. Powered by greed that ignores everything except the bottom line, the filthy drilling for and expelling of fossil fuels is now burning our planet up. "
#degrowth #postgrowth #postcapitalism #sufficiency
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-economy-we-need-to-save-ourselves?r=da5yr&triedRedirect=true
The Economy We Need to Save Ourselves

Consumption is Killing Us

Sane Thoughts for Insane Times