De-growth

The Myths of Perpetual Growth

Author / Creator: James Mackenzie

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2022

Growth is front and centre in the Tory Party’s ongoing meltdown

Why we need cosmological limits to growth

Author / Creator: Mike Small

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2022

We can see that changes to our consumption, production, and working patterns alone won’t be enough to sustain a profound transformation towards a just and sustainable world.

LESS – A Journal of Degrowth in Scotland

Author / Creator: LESS Editorial Collective

Media type: Journal

Date published: 2020 -

LESS, a journal on degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. 

LESS questions and challenges dominant narratives about what economic progress means in Scotland, and sketches out alternative visions. The focus is on collective and democratic solutions to sustaining livelihoods that meet people’s needs while rising to the threats of climate change, ecocide and mass extinction, inequality, racism and the far right, and the interconnected oppressive and extractivist logic and mechanisms that feed all of those. 

TRUE PROSPERITY AND NEW METABOLISMS

Author / Creator: Mike Small

Media type: Discussion Paper

Date published: 2022

This is an outline of how we might situate degrowth in a history of alternative economics and regenerative movements, in the context of brutal new scientific and socio-economic realities. What does ‘true prosperity’ look like in times of socio-ecological crisis?