CONTENTS
Significant Announcements and Current Trends
Metacrisis: Getting Honest About the Human Predicament
Art Berman
Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: "Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself"
Robert Jensen
A Shareable Explainer: What Is the Solidarity Economy?
Emily Kawano
Embodied Economics: Why I Have Never Owned A Car (or a Smartphone)
Cara Judea Alhadeff
Critics of 'Degrowth' Economics Say It's Unworkable – But from an Ecologist's Perspective, It's Inevitable
Michael Joy
Democracy Trumped at the Limits to Growth
Brian Czech
The Looming Catastrophe That Awaits Us if We Fail to Rethink Our Values
Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
The Real Economy Doesn't Need Growth
John Meyer
Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution
Richard Heinberg
Degrowthers of the World, Unite: A Proposal for Degrowth Academics, Activists, and Practitioners to Join Forces
Vlad Bunea & Félix Garnier
Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy, Politics, and the Biosphere
Eliza Daley
Capitalism Is a Metabolic Disease ~ Welcome to Your Late Stage Economic Diabetes
George Tsakraklides
How We'll Make the Degrowth Transition
Ted Trainer
Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially ~ A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
Jimmy Videle
Degrowth for Animals, for People, and for the Environment
Michael D. Briscoe
Cows, Capital, and Growth
Gunnar Rundgren
The Power of Transformative Communities to Build Other Possible Futures
Juan del Río
The Enshittification of Everything
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Failure of the Sustainable Development Goals
Fernando Morales de la Cruz
'Worrying' Population Declines Are Actually A Hopeful Sign
Kirsten Stade
Women's Empowerment and Patriarchy
Matthew Distefano
Trump and the American Love of Patriarchal Violence
Anne M. Lauren
The Blindness of Political Violence
Brian Kaylor
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Significant Announcements and Current Trends
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Concordian Economics, Volumes 1 & 2
Carmine Gorga, Springer Studies in Alternative Economics, 2024
Introduces Concordian economics as a new synthesis, a new paradigm
Restores and completes the ancient theory of economic justice
Presents a vision of the economic system as a set of interdependent actions
Volume 1 ~ Tools for Economists and Social Scientists
Volume 2 ~ Some Applications
Concordian economics website
Earth Overshoot Day 2024 ~ August 1st
"Humanity limps in the race to end global overshoot,
even as it falls in the middle of this year's Olympic Games"
Overshoot Day Announcement
For an explanation of overshoot, see this video:
Overshoot? What the Hell Is Overshoot?
Dave Gardner & Bill Rees, 29 July 2024
Season of Creation 2024
To hope and act with Creation, September 1 to October 4
Download the Celebration Guide
Think Tank on Innovative Communication for Social Change
With Andrew Gaines, 21-23 November 2024, Sydney, Australia
Information and Point of Contact
Frequency and Intensity of Natural Disasters
Source: Is the number of natural disasters increasing?
Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado, Our World in Data, 3 June 2024.
See the article for detailed analysis of the data and other related charts.
Good data and improved disaster prevention/recovery systems are urgently needed.
But climate change is just one symptom of the global social-ecological crisis.
The root causes are population growth, excessive consumption, and ecological overshoot.
There are tech bandages but it is a social problem, not amenable to tech fixes.
The only real solution is
DEGROWTH of the modern techno-industrial civilization.
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