Degrowth & Economics — Are They Incompatible?

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:00:57 +0000

DegrowthThere’s a line in a Paul Simon song that goes like this: “There’s too many people on the bus from the airport, too many holes in the crust of the earth. The planet groans every time it registers another birth.” Recently, we the people of Earth celebrated the news that there are now 8 billion […]

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Revisiting Degrowth For Sustainability — It’s Necessary, But Challenges Traditional Economics

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:50:47 +0000

degrowthThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that outright cuts to consumer demand are needed to reduce carbon emissions, and that recent perspective has resurrected a controversial theory from the 1970s. Shouldn’t we cut consumption to move toward zero emissions?

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