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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

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SUVs made up 20% of global emissions growth and 55% of car sales globally in 2023 (slrpnk.net)

This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions....

‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’ (www.theguardian.com)

The radical combination of degrowth and basic income (www.opendemocracy.net)

Watching Population Bomb (www.resilience.org)

UBS: More Billionaires inherited their wealth then gained it by entrepreneurship (www.ubs.com)

Imho an intressting development in the completly wrong direction. However it shows the massive problem capitalism has, that it increases capital accumulation within a small group of people. It also is a strong argument against the idea of billionaires having earned their wealth.

10 Principles of Good Design - Dieter Rams

Shrink the Economy, Save the World? Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing. (www.nytimes.com)

15 years of degrowth research: A systematic review (www.sciencedirect.com)

The term "degrowth" as political suicide?

I am a degrowther, but people keep telling me it’s hard to create media communications campaigns for degrowth and that advocating for it is “political suicide.” As if endless cancerous growth isn’t political suicide already. I’m told people want growth and we should use a different name for degrowth and that we should...

The Amazon Paper is fighting Degrowth now

Great news! It is clearly catching on in the states as well.

A Four-day Workweek: A Policy for Improving Employment and Environmental Conditions (www.europeanfinancialreview.com)

What is nature worth? As Wall Street assigns a dollar value, Indigenous economics charts different path (news.mongabay.com)

We Don't Need Economic Growth (www.youtube.com)

Civilization's Peak Power in 10 to 20 Years? (yt.artemislena.eu)

Introducing the Mileage Fee Act (steadystate.org)

How to Bring About Nowtopia and Degrowth? Erik Olin Wright’s Four Strategic Logics (www.youtube.com)

Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better (www.scientificamerican.com)

The Oil Crash Is Coming Sooner Than We Think (www.planetcritical.com)

The growing popularity of degrowth (grist.org)

If you like the idea of a perpetual three-day weekend, you might be one of a growing cadre that supports the concept of degrowth: a school of thought aimed at shrinking economies and moving away from GDP growth as a metric of success, while instead emphasizing universal basic services and social well-being. The idea is gaining...

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