Monthly Archives: June 2017

Johnathan Freeland in the Guardian Grenfell Tower threatens to stand forever as a warning against four of the defining features of our era. First, deregulation – elevated to an ideal by the free marketeers of Thatcherism and pursued ever since. … Continue reading →

Following up on Jeroen van den Bergh’s excellent review of the growth versus climate debate, Giorgos Kallis points to a fundamental misrepresentation of the quoted research on degrowth: degrowth is not a strategy „aimed at reducing the size of the … Continue reading →

KAIROS is shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our dear friend and colleague John Dillon. https://www.kairoscanada.org/remembering-john-dillon John was a great friend and a “student” of Degrowth. His quiet and solid research over decades motivated and mobilised thousands … Continue reading →

The application of the biological concept of metabolism (‘Stoffwechsel’) to social systems can be traced back to Marx who, influenced by Liebig and Moleschott, talked about the ‘metabolism between man and nature as mediated by the labour process’. Such a … Continue reading →

Unbridled growth appears to be at odds with social well-being and environmental sustainability. How might we develop a model that reduces the imperative for growth while maintaining economic stability? https://www.opendemocracy.net/riccardo-mastini/degrowth-case-for-constructing-new-economic-paradigm

A holistic understanding of modern evolutionary biology suggests that life evolves by a process of diversification and subsequent integration of diversity through collaboration (John Stewart in BioSystems, 2014). As our focus shifts from individuals and individual species as the unit … Continue reading →