Tag: Degrowth

“What is the worldview of a people who mumble no thanks or prayers, who take what they want from the land, and pay it back with arsenic?” — Jo Sacco, in Paying the Land We are on the brink of ecological collapse. Scientists reckon that the earth can handle a tot...

When I was a teenager I watched a LOT of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’ve revisited the show a few times since then; it still holds up, although its vision of the distant future has not aged very well. According to this delightfully detailed Wikipedia page, the events of the s...

Degrowth is slowly (one might say, at a snail’s pace) catching on. Last year’s IPCC report made reference to the term some 27 times. Scholars around the world are exploring and debating the topic. Academics are churning out titles like The Future Is Degrowth and ...