Renda Belmallem has worked for 6 months at Focus/Friends of the Earth Slovenia and has now returned to her home country France. Here she reflects on the recent ‘Post-Growth 2018 Conference’ in the European Parliament from the perspective of the Degrowth movement. In case you ever wondered why the European Commission doesn’t give up building …
Three policy ideas for a post-growth economy
Many new ideas for an economic paradigm shift have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. In these discussion papers we engage in a more in-depth analysis of three policy ideas that can move Europe towards an economy that can provide for all its citizens while keeping within planetary …
Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency
To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. “Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends—in particular to overconsumption—and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by …
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Sufficiency – a call for transformative and systemic change
In the world we aspire to, everybody has equal access to natural resources and energy to meet their needs. But how do we get there? Our newly released booklet “Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends – in particular to overconsumption – and putting emphasis on distributional justice. …
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Citizens, policy makers, NGOs: Learn to focus on enough
Our current level of overconsumption is plundering the Earth’s resources at a faster rate than they can be regenerated. This cannot last forever – and we are beginning to see the impacts of the system breaking down. Not only at the environmental level, but also at the social one. The number of murdered environmental defenders …
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For the environment and human rights: let’s put the brakes on economic growth
One of the most pressing needs of our age is to veer away from the cliff-edge that overconsumption is driving us towards, and find new ways to live in a world that — to quote Mahatma Gandhi — “has enough for everyone’s needs, but not for everyone’s greed”. But how do we get there? On …
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