Reposted from Northwest Bylines Mark H Burton With transport through the Strait of Hormuz at a virtual standstill, we get a picture of how oil and petrochemicals are part of our life The supply chain problems arising from the unprovoked USA/Israeli attack on Iran are becoming clear. They are multiple, affecting not just oil and… Continue reading The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals

Jacobo Rivas Sanmartín* In the series, Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture. 1. Disaster, Transition, and the Political Vacuum When the DANA weather system brought heavy rain and catastrophic floods to Valencia, the event was seen as a ‘natural disaster’, something out of the ordinary. That, however, is misleading: such events are not something that… Continue reading From Green Growth to Ecological Ungovernability: Why Degrowth Is No Longer Optional

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

Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing? Ted Trainer* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a… Continue reading Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?

By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failure to address the real issues facing people and planet. On the one hand we have seen the continuing rise of the… Continue reading As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?

by Mladen Domazet1 In the series Prospects for Degrowth When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to use my semiperipheral voice to inform the by-now-desperate comrades in the metropole. Combine that with… Continue reading Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery

In the series Prospects for Degrowth by Ted Trainer Dear Manuel and Mark, thanks for your valuable commentaries on my impressions about the movement. On Manuel’s response I think that Manuel is quite correct in noting that my comments do not apply well to some regions, and especially to Spain. His previous emails to me… Continue reading Response to Manuel and Mark