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Inverse relative decoupling

February 11, 2022February 27, 2022 Crelis 0 Comments

Green Growth supposedly ‘decouples’ economic growth from resource consumption and/or environmental impacts. Decoupling can be relative (when rates of economic

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No inclusive development without a post-growth economy

January 10, 2022February 27, 2022 Crelis 0 Comments

Environmental degradation and social injustice are deeply enmeshed with the growth economy. Applying green and inclusive lubricants to its mechanisms

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A Degrowth Movement in The Netherlands

March 8, 2021February 27, 2022 Crelis 0 Comments

During the 8th international degrowth conference in The Hague next summer we will pay attention to the potential for a

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Degrowth in the Netherlands: An Overview

October 8, 2020February 27, 2022 Crelis 0 Comments

Through a degrowth-course at the University of Amsterdam and meetings with like-minded people, the Dutch degrowth-platform Ontgroei was established. Co-founder

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Strong correlations between economic growth and environmental impacts

August 21, 2020February 28, 2022 Crelis 0 Comments

Perpetual economic growth is incompatible with a finite planet. To some extent, innovation can reduce throughput, thus ‘decoupling’ economic growth from environmental

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Is degrowth about bringing down GDP?

July 3, 2020July 14, 2020 Crelis 0 Comments

In a thought-provoking piece in CASSE’s Steady State Herald, Brian Czech worries that many degrowthers seem agnostic about GDP degrowth.

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Recovering from COVID-19? Let’s do it without GDP growth

April 28, 2020May 5, 2020 Crelis 0 Comments

COVID-19 has infected both our bodies and economies. On March 12, Mark Rutte compared the Dutch economy to ‘a patient’

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This isn’t the type of downscaling that degrowth thinkers have in mind!

March 26, 2020May 5, 2020 Crelis 0 Comments

In the early 17th century, the bubonic plague is said to have played a crucial role in popping the tulip bubble in

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Capitalism inevitably leads to crises

June 17, 2019May 5, 2020 Crelis 0 Comments

Capitalism typically goes through cycles of expansion to contraction. We commonly refer to these as ‘business cycles’ or ‘economic cycles’.

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Good infinity

March 15, 2019May 5, 2020 Crelis 0 Comments

Cycles of growth and decline in ecology were famously revealed in so-called predator-prey relationships. As foxes eat chickens, chicken reproduction

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