drinking a beer in a hammock in the sun realizing maybe i don't have to hit myself with hammers every day forever just some or most days
Degrowth basics
"The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress."
- What is Degrowth? | Caracol DSA
- Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy
- Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
- We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs
- Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams
- Can degrowth save us and the planet? | Nottingham Trent
- Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments
- Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker
- The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic
- Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic
- A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC
- What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science
- Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine
- Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub
- All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA
- A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom
- On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review
- What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META
Green growth
"There is no empirical evidence that absolute decoupling from resource use can be achieved on a global scale against a background of continued economic growth."
- Is Green Growth Possible? | Jason Hickel & Giorgos Kallis
- The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy
- The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation
- Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth
- Green Growth | Uneven Earth
- The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American
- Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera
- A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique
- Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman
- Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation
Degrowth and the left
"In the middle of an ecological emergency, should we be producing sport utility vehicles and mansions? Should we be diverting energy to support the obscene consumption and accumulation of the ruling class?"
- The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist
- Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble
- Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe
- Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review
- For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review
- Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
- The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture
- Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag
- Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)
- Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist
Degrowth and the South
"Southern countries should be free to organize their resources and labor around meeting human needs rather than around servicing Northern growth."
- Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation
- The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel
- Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
- Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts | Resilience
Journals/Reports
- Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel
- A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights
- What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel
- Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario | Global Environmental Change
- Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy
- Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber
- Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau
- Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward
- Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature
- A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel
- Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits
- Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters
- Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries | The Lancet
Books
- Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press
- A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl
- Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel
- Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books
- The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books
- The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books
- Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito
- Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation
- 27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis
Videos
- Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School
- How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism
- How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate
- Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
- Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan
- Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical
- Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through
- The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG
- "Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media
Others
A brief insight into a world where animals vocalize like Pokémon:
Patient: “What’s wrong with me?”
Doctor: “Well let’s take a listen.”
Muffled voice from inside patient: “Tapeworm”
who would even miss me [thinks about the many people who would] oh come on
ive also come to the conclusion that "laziness" is probably the stupidest, most hurtful, least useful, deliberately cruel concept in the world
I don't think I've ever seen anyone benefit from being called lazy but I've seen hundreds of people destroying their bodies and minds trying to avoid being called lazy because at some point someone decided that if someone wasn't miserable then that means they're a bad person
The whole concept of worms being in apples kind of fell off but I think it’s such a good first lesson for kids. Like just being aware an Apple could have a worm…that was really formative for me
the meek when they inherit the earth
Twin boys
wire son and cloth son
op: *knock knock*
them:
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every day i thank my lucky stars that i have never closed my bathroom mirror cabinet and seen a scary guy behind me