“At times, I believe we absolutely must adopt a positive narrative. However, it is crucial not to oversimplify or assume that everything will be alright. In a world beset by multiple crises, such optimism is unfounded.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
hansstegeman.substack.com/p/16-forget-...

🌍Can we thrive without growing?

ICTA-UAB has just published the most detailed policy plan for how the region of Catalonia could meet people's needs without depending on economic growth.⁠
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The report covers climate, energy, food, taxes and labor.⁠

#postgrowth #degrowth

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

“Out of nine ‘planetary boundaries’, that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest levels of transgression…”

Everything we do is unsustainable #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth #Sufficiency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Renewable & solar capitalism, we recognise as subsets of green capitalism, which is not ecologically sustainable, renewable or clean when designed to continuously accumulate enormous amounts of energy & habitats/materials.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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“We have to show that you can have a better quality of life without needing to spend so much resources & energy, & without having such a destructive impact on the environment.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth #Sufficiency
www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1462/wo...

“Humanity’s material footprint has grown faster than GDP over the past 20yrs—the opposite of what green growth requires. Windigo’s Law guarantees it: under capitalism every efficiency gain becomes an invitation to produce more, not less.” #Degrowth #PostGrowth
jeremylent.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

“In the Western self-image, ‘modernity’ clearly forbids returning to a ‘pre-modern’ realm of imagination. However, to foster a harmonious relationship between humans & non-humans, a degree of re-enchantment is essential.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

😁 Was für ein Vergnügen, beim Deep Dive: Outer Space der Robert-Jungk-Bibliothek über das politisch (noch) Undenkbare nachzudenken.
Mein Ausflug ins Jahr 2045: Was wäre, wenn Europa Wachstum nicht abschafft – aber seine Abhängigkeit vom Wachstum?
Die Freiheit, nicht wachsen zu müssen.
#PostGrowth

“We’re liquidating our one-time material inheritance in an orgy of overconsumption. In a sick game of intergenerational theft, we’re running a centuries-long Ponzi scheme. Just don’t get caught holding the bag.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency #PostCapitalism
gnug315.substack.com/p/part-3-of-...

“It is a rebellion against the assumption that everything real can be reduced to commodity, utility, or exchange value.

Only when existence itself becomes worthy of reverence will limits cease to appear merely as loss.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
theecologist.org/2026/aug/18/...

“It is about sustaining the natural systems that make life possible. Every product we consume, every Kilometre we travel & every resource we extract carries an ecological cost that is often invisible to us.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth #Sufficiency
countercurrents.org/2026/06/we-a...

“The ‘Unipolar’ organism is no longer managing a stable niche; it is starving in a saturated one… it has ditched the K-strategy ‘Policeman’ uniform & reverted to the pure r-strategy Predator.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth

This Thermodynamics of Plunder
theuaob.substack.com/p/retro-colo...

“This skill mismatch is no accident. Capitalism’s growth imperative requires that we remain disconnected from the consequences of our actions, that we prioritise efficiency over reciprocity, & extraction over regeneration.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/wholebeing...

“Thus, it could be argued that capitalism’s main tools to solve its contradictions—growth & technology—have failed to solve sustainability problems & instead massively deteriorated the environmental state of the Earth.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Islamic economics has questioned endless growth for centuries. What can it teach us today? #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
theconversation.com/islamic-econ...

“We need a praxis that combines Epicurus’s notion of sustainability & a philosophy of enough & reciprocity, with Marx’s emphasis on production & transformation. I think this is the road, the way as the Daoist would say.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
gpenewsdocs.com/johnbellamyf...

Peasant-Led Movements Hold the Model for Restoring the Land

In the U.S., efforts to shape a #postgrowth food system have yet to spark a mass movement, but interest and #activism are growing.

Part II in a series about #degrowth by @shapersyris.bsky.social

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What shapes #HMTreasury’s response to climate and nature loss? CUSP director @timjackson.org.uk's recent evidence to the ongoing EAC inquiry challenges the growth, wellbeing and discounting assumptions behind The Green Book. 🔗 cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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#PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth

Growth dependence of welfare states: a semi-systematic review of drivers & policy responses #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth #Sufficiency
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Global trade-offs between consumption, carbon prices, & equity - #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency
www.nature.com/articles/s41...