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- It’s time to break up capitalism’s love affair with plastic 16/12/2019
- Can degrowth steer us towards a sustainable future? – The Meteor 15/12/2019
- ‘Staggering’ New Data Shows Income of Top 1% Has Grown 100 Times Faster Than Bottom 50% Since 1970 09/12/2019
- Towards a new reconfiguration among the state, civil society and the market 07/12/2019
- CBC Ideas – December 2013 – The Degrowth Paradigm – Richard Swift 06/12/2019
- Towards a new reconfiguration among the state, civil society and the market 06/12/2019
- Mass consumerism is decimating our planet. This Black Friday, let’s take a stand 29/11/2019
- Bolivia, Lithium and Hijacking the Environmental Movement 23/11/2019
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Scientists pin extreme weather on climate change
By Fiona Harvey, Guardian Weekly, 12 July 2012 Climate change researchers have been able to attribute recent examples of extreme weather to the effects of human activity on the planet’s climate systems for the first time, marking a major step … Continue reading
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Peer-to-peer activity and the coming of the commons
This article in the July 2012 issue of Red Pepper is quite relevant to our discussions about degrowth. Michel Bauwens’ article examines how collaborative, commons-based activities (including manufacturing, information and even money) are emerging to challenge capitalism. Hilary Wainwright poses … Continue reading
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Montreal conference highlights critique of capitalism and globalization
In Peter Dubés novel, “The City’s Gates”, Montreal is gearing up for the World Economic Forum. On one side are those preparing to welcome the policymakers and moneylenders; on the other are groups ready to protest the evils of capitalism … Continue reading
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Book review: Too many people? Population, immigration, and the environment
by Laura Kaminker A review of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler. “The clarity of the authors’ arguments, their unassailable reasoning, their thorough research, the full transparency of their worldview, and … Continue reading
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Beyond GDP lies Economic Degrowth
Friday, 13 July 2012 16:38 Beyond GDP lies Economic Degrowth By Joan Martinez-Alier The expression Beyond GDP, is in fashion in Brussels among some European civil servants and politicians, 40 years after Commission President Sicco Mansholt had already criticized GDP, … Continue reading
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US heatwave: “This is what global warming looks like”
Throughout June, the United States was hit by freak storms, intense heatwaves, prolonged drought, huge floods and out-of-control bushfires that have burnt out more than 2.1 million acres… “This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal … Continue reading
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Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception?
Another element of the degrowth and population debate! Bob by Betsy Hartmann On July 11, World Population Day, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international Family Planning Summit in London to launch an … Continue reading
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