Growth doesn’t only perpetuate unsustainable consumption, but social injustices as well. Through the experiences of one civilian in Afghanistan, we are encouraged to consider the complexity of global politics, as well as our own complicitness.
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Tim Jackson is a rock-star. At least in the post growth community, in my opinion. He has helped to further an intelligent, deliberate conversation about what we need as people on this planet: a healthy, sustainable, people and planet friendly economy. His book, Prosperity Without Growth, is by far one of the best reads on the subject [...]
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For audiences where concern for ecosystems and biodiversity may not resonate, expressing limits in terms of risk and safety – a ‘safe operating limit’ – could be a powerful way to help communicate the importance of limits.
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We have to make some serious decisions in the next four years. Do we desire a progressively better world for our children — one with less hunger, less war, less poverty, more food, more fun, more community? Or do we desire a world of ease, frivolity, speed and excess that we’ll have to pay an [...]
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Compress the past million years of human development into 24 hours, and the journey from steam engine to search engine amounts to about 21 seconds. But is that pace sustainable?
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As human activity more closely influences ecological systems, everything gets more complicated.
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