• What is Degrowth? | Caracol DSA
• Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy
• Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
• We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs
• Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams
• Can degrowth save us and the planet? | Nottingham Trent
• Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments
• Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker
• The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic
• Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic
• A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC
• What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science
• Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine
• Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub
• All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA
• A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom
• On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review
• What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META

• Is Green Growth Possible? | Jason Hickel & Giorgos Kallis
• The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy
• The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation
• Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth
• Green Growth | Uneven Earth
• The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American
• Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera
• A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique
• Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman
• Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation

• The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist
• Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble
• Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe
• Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review
• For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review
• Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
• The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture
• Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag
• Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)
• Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist

• Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation
• The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel
• Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
• Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts | Resilience

• Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel
• A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights
• What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel
• Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario | Global Environmental Change
• Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy
• Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber
• Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau
• Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward
• Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature
• A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel
• Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits
• Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters
• Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries | The Lancet

• Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press
• A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl
• Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel
• Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books
• The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books
• The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books
• Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito
• Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation
• 27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis

• Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School
• How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism
• How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate
• Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
• Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan
• Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical
• Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through
• The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG
• "Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media

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The great carbon divide

We are not equally to blame for rising temperatures, and recognising that is an important step in identifying possible solutions

the Guardian

Climate anxiety means different things to different income groups. At the bottom, it means fear of heat and floods. At the top, it means fear of increasingly desperate people. Billionaires often live in protective bubbles maintained at a considerable cost in dollars and emissions. Some are preparing for “the event”, with plans for doomsday bunkers in New Zealand, Nevada and other remote areas. Others blast off the planet in private rockets and talk of colonising space. Instead of making every effort to reduce emissions, the rich increase their carbon footprint by putting more distance between themselves and the masses. The Oxfam report reveals that the decision-making classes who will dominate at Cop28 – senior politicians including US senators, British ministers and European commissioners – are also in the top 1% of income earners. Corporate CEOs, whose lobbyists also flock to Cop summits, are often wealthier and more heavily invested in carbon assets. Boardroom share options and bonus structures have created an incentive for oil company executives to resist climate action. Instead, they have successfully pushed for expansion of fossil fuel production. Dario Kenner, the author of Carbon Inequality, has identified what he calls a “polluter elite”: anyone with a net worth over $1m who reinforces the use of fossil fuel technologies through their high carbon consumption, investments in polluting companies and, most importantly, political influence. “The polluter elite have blocked an alternative history where the destruction of extreme weather events and air pollution could have been reduced,” he told the Guardian. The international climate negotiating process has failed to keep pace with the growing power of the super-rich. Thirty-one years ago, when the world first came together to tackle climate and biodiversity problems at the Rio de Janeiro Earth summit, there was optimism for a solution on behalf of billions of humans and the countless other forms of life on Earth. Since then, the opposite has happened. Governments remain deeply divided, 60% more emissions are being pumped into the atmosphere and more money, carbon and power is being concentrated in ever fewer hands. The solution to all this is complex but also very simple. Many believe that the key lies in politicians wresting back control of the climate issue with strong legislation and policy. Oxfam is calling for a wealth tax, and a windfall tax on corporations based on the “polluter pays” principle, placing the highest burden on those most responsible and most able to pay. “We need a political discourse that is class conscious, that recognises that the rich and capitalism are the major drivers of the climate crisis,” said Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist at the London School of Economics and the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. “This is about bringing production – and provisioning systems and energy systems – under democratic control.”

This Is America’s War on Palestinians as Much as Israel’s

A discussion of political repression, resistance strategies, and a mass antiwar movement.

Hammer & Hope

Mohammed: PYM’s [Palestinian Youth Movement] position, which you can see in our messaging, is that this is a project of genocide. It’s a genocidal campaign being waged on the people of Gaza through a variety of means, including a 16-year-long siege of Gaza. We’ve seen an intensification of that siege in the last two weeks, the denial of fuel, water, electricity, and medical supplies, coupled with an unrelenting bombardment on a densely populated area with nearly half of its population being children — all while the U.S. works to send more bombs. The only way to see it is as genocide, coupled with the statements by the representatives of the Israeli state calling Palestinians “human animals,” talking about how they’re going to transform the Gaza Strip into a city of tents, and various other genocidal claims being made across the spectrum politically and on every level of the political establishment within the Israeli state, calling for a second Nakba. They have self-identified it as a genocidal campaign. We don’t need to read between the lines to understand; they’ve made it explicit. Radhika: Unfortunately, we agree with that, too. The Center for Constitutional Rights is a close partner of Palestine Legal’s. We should take the Israelis at their word. The Israeli minister of defense called Palestinians “human animals;” he said Israel’s military will “eliminate everything” in Gaza, and there have been calls to flatten whole neighborhoods. This is genocidal language, as genocide experts have pointed out, and the horrific military violence against Palestinian civilians should terrify everyone. Knowing the history of how this rhetoric has been used in other mass atrocities is very frightening. We’re very concerned about what Israel will do next. It’s important that the international community urgently stop attempts to commit genocide against Palestinians.

Why bring trees into this? - Overland literary journal

Palestinians in the West Bank plant roughly 10,000 olive trees a year, to make up for the roughly 10,00 trees Israel cuts or burns every yea

Overland literary journal

Palestinians in the West Bank plant roughly 10,000 olive trees a year, to make up for the roughly 10,00 trees Israel cuts or burns every year, since 1967. People I get but why — why bring trees into this?"

Leprosy in the Middle Ages | Gone Medieval

Medieval people were very concerned about how to deal with those in their midst who had leprosy..

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Medieval people were very concerned about how to deal with those in their midst who had leprosy, now called Hansen's disease. It's assumed today that sufferers were shunned from society, forced onto the margins, and generally hated. But in this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega finds out from Professor Carole Rawcliffe about what was it really like to live with leprosy, both as a sufferer or as a member of the communities that needed to care for them.

‘Shocking’ scale of UK government’s secret files on critics revealed

Dossiers were compiled by 15 departments after scouring social media activity to vet people invited to speak at official events

the Guardian

Fifteen government departments have been monitoring the social media activity of potential critics and compiling “secret files” in order to block them from speaking at public events, the Observer can reveal. Under the guidelines issued in each department, including the departments of health, culture, media and sport, and environment, food and rural affairs, officials are advised to check experts’ Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. They are also told to conduct Google searches on those individuals, using specific terms such as “criticism of government or prime minister”. The guidelines are designed to prevent anyone who has criticised the government in the previous three to five years from speaking at government-organised conferences and other events.

These hidden checks are unlawful, running contrary to data protection laws and potentially breaching equality and human rights legislation. Dan Kaszeta, a chemical weapons expert, was disinvited in April from giving a keynote speech at a UK defence conference after officials found social media posts criticising Tory ministers and government immigration policy. He told the Observer this weekend that he knows of 12 others who have uncovered evidence of similar government blacklisting, most of whom are frightened of speaking out. But he said far more will be unaware they ever failed secret vetting. He said: “The full extent of this is shocking and probably not fully known. I was lucky enough to be given clearcut, obvious evidence. It’s truly awful.”