Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture “We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. That we need to extract these polymetallic nodules at the bottom of the sea so we can create electric batteries to run automobiles without using… Continue reading Technology is the enemy of degrowth

Jon Cloke* In the series Prospects for Degrowth “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definitions of economic growth that it’s almost a monad, “a most basic substance” that… Continue reading The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…