Degrowth

This page lists multiple resources so that you can learn more about degrowth. If you're not familiar with the concept of degrowth, you may want to check out the "Start here" section below first before diving into other sections.

Start here

"Our obsession with economic growth is deadly" (Nov 24, 2022, 25:17) - from the "All Hail The Planet" series, on Al Jazeera English

A fantastic introduction to degrowth! This video is first centered around definition of consumption in a capitalist system, and outlines its social and ecological cost around the world. It then introduces the concept of degrowth.

Books

• "Less is More" - Jason Hickel

• "The Future Is Degrowth" - Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan, and Andrea Vetter

  • Reading notes:

    • 1. Introduction

    • 2. Economic Growth

    • 3. Critiques of Growth

    • 4. Degrowth visions

    • 5. Pathways to degrowth

    • 6. Making Degrowth real

    • 7. The future of degrowth

Websites, blog posts and articles

• Uneven Earth - (RSS)

  Independent news website on degrowth, politics and environment. Their monthly reading lists are great starting points. Here's Uneven Earth's mission statement on their about page:

  Uneven Earth takes a political stance on today’s crises. We uncover the other half that’s never been told, and we tell stories about change and viable alternatives. Working against the grain of fast, hyperactive media, we publish long-lasting, thought-provoking, and accessible analyses.

• Timothée Parrique's blog - (RSS)

  Timothée Parrique is an economist and researcher at Lund University. He writes about degrowth on this website. Here's a selection of blog posts he wrote:

  • "Decoupling in the IPCC AR6 WGIII" (April 8, 2022)

    A in-depth blog post that analyses what's was written about decoupling and green growth in the third working group report of the latest IPCC publication.

• Revealed: top carbon offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions (September 19, 2023) - from The Guardian

Talks

• SR Talks | Prof. Kevin Anderson — A Velvet or Violent Climate Revolution: Which will we choose - (Apr 13, 2023, 1:29:24) on Youtube.

  This is a presentation given by Professor Kevin Anderson) as part of the Scientist Rebellion Talks. The presentation itself is about 35-40 mins long. Kevin confronts mainstream rhetoric and existing global inequity against statements from latest IPCC report, and what it means moving forward.

Mastodon accounts

To keep the conversations going, here are the Mastodon profile of some authors mentioned above.

• Jason Hickel - @jasonhickel@mastodon.world

• Timothée Parrique - @timparrique@fediscience.org