Reactie op FD artikel: “De ontgroei-kerk biedt plaats aan alle gelovigen”
Fijn dat FD aandacht geeft aan degrowth in dit artikel “De ontgroei-kerk biedt plaats aan alle gelovigen” van Marijn Jongsma.
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Ontgroeien: hard nodig en geen verarming
(Oorspronkelijke publicatie op ontgroei.nl, geschreven in samenwerking met collega’s van Ontgroei.) Het maatschappelijke gesprek over ontgroeien, ofwel ‘degrowth’ komt op
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Inverse relative decoupling
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
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
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
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
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?
In a thought-provoking piece in CASSE’s Steady State Herald, Brian Czech worries that many degrowthers seem agnostic about GDP degrowth.
Read MoreRecovering from COVID-19? Let’s do it without GDP growth
COVID-19 has infected both our bodies and economies. On March 12, Mark Rutte compared the Dutch economy to ‘a patient’
Read MoreThis isn’t the type of downscaling that degrowth thinkers have in mind!
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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