#prospectsfordegrowth — Public Fediverse posts

@fdriesenaar @GeofCox @ChrisMayLA6 @2legged
Good question but the question is who and how to initiate this.
You might find the articles in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series of relevance.
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

Your weekend reading:

"We all know that our addiction to growth must stop because it is destroying the very foundations of our lives, but knowing that we must stop an addiction is one thing, and being able to do so is a different one. Capitalist growth is a complex and insidious dynamic that should be analysed through the lens of systems analysis and feedback in order to be addressed."

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/04/16/debates-on-degrowth-what-drives-us-to-keep-growing/
#ProspectsForDegrowth

Thanks to @postcarboninstitute for republishing our piece on resilience org:
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up? - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-30/minority-influence-how-can-degrowth-step-up/
#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton
In the series Prospects for Degrowth
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-can-degrowth-step-up/

#ProspectsForDegrowth #ecosocialism

Thanks Resilience.org for reposting and correcting the title.

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-16/prospects-for-degrowth-the-story-so-far/

#ProspectsForDegrowth

There are now 15 articles in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.

Prospects for Degrowth – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

#degrowth

Yesterday's post.
"Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far".
What's been covered, and what hasn't.

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far. – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/06/prospects-for-degrowth-the-story-so-far/

#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth

Following several months of interesting articles from various quarters in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series, we've written a summary and reflection on it all.

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far. – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/06/prospects-for-degrowth-the-story-so-far/
#degrowth

@alx @pvonhellermannn
I've just written a piece on the #ProspectsForDegrowth with the leftward turn of the Greens and the proto- Your Party. It's scheduled to appear early Monday, but I will now probably have to revise it.
In summary, disappointing that both developments underplay the extent and urgency of the ecological and climate #overshoot crisis.
#degrowth #UKPol

"What goes with [GDP growth] is ... ignored; growth depends on increased production and distribution, which always increase waste."
Jon Cloke in our new #ProspectsForDegrowth piece.

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/

#Growth #degrowth #Waste #WasteCrisis

A new piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… by Jon Cloke.
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/
#degrowth #waste #GlobalWaste

"Meanwhile [various] projects, are co-constructed, won or lost, implemented and written about using cloaked expressions and degrowth-like terminology.
"But the fear of openly speaking about justice, survival and revolution, the fear of being the first fool to shout ‘the emperor has no clothes’, keeps finely hairstyled Europeans in social positions, jobs – sometimes even offices of authority – and sense of self-worth."
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/19/stories-of-expanded-solidarity-the-personal-and-the-political-in-the-degrowth-perspective-from-the-european-periphery/

#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth

From Croatia:
'Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery' – Mladen Domazet

In the series #ProspectsForDegrowth

https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/19/stories-of-expanded-solidarity-the-personal-and-the-political-in-the-degrowth-perspective-from-the-european-periphery/

'Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery' – Mladen Domazet

In the series #ProspectsForDegrowth

https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/19/stories-of-expanded-solidarity-the-personal-and-the-political-in-the-degrowth-perspective-from-the-european-periphery/

#degrowth

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK

https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/
Also
Degrowth: a dead end or the way out?
by Aurora Despierta https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/

Scene setter for the series:
Prospects for Degrowth 2025.
Mark H Burton
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/prospects-for-degrowth-2025/

All articles:https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth #Ecosocialism

New article,

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK

https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/

#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth #Ecosocialism

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" –
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth".  Insist on the real thing.
#degrowthUK #degrowth
The whole series: still open for contributions.
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth".  Insist on the real thing.

New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK #degrowth

https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/

The whole series: still open for contributions.
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth". Insist on the real thing.

New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK #degrowth

https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/

That's voices from Canada, Scotland and Malta via UK and Austria to add to England, France/Hungary, Australia, Spain.
#ProspectsForDegrowth

More recent pieces in the series
#ProspectsForDegrowth (and still more on the way)

Familiarizing Degrowth: Art and Grounded Communities
Graham Janz
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/29/familiarizing-degrowth-art-and-grounded-communities/

Proposals for Degrowth
Eva Martinez
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/01/proposals-for-degrowth/

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/

#Degrowth

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism by Richard Muscat
New article in the series "Prospects for Degrowth"
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/

#ProspectsForDegrowth

Our series,

Prospects for Degrowth

Do add your thoughts, either picking up the overview in the first article, or raising further issues.
More to come next week.
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

#ProspectsForDegrowth
#Degrowth

If you'd like to add your thoughts to the series, do take a look at the initial piece, Prospects for Degrowth, 2025.
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/prospects-for-degrowth-2025
It sets out the terrain within which we attempt to work and shift to a lower production, lower consumption, higher social justice world, while suggesting some points where degrowth can take root and flourish.
#ProspectsForDegrowth #drgrowth #politics

@foolishowl @alx
Yes, that's the predicament. We have a series on #ProspectsForDegrowth at https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/ but I don't think we (and that includes me) have quite got on top of this fundamental issue - yet.

Welcome to a new #degrowth commentator, Eva Martinez from Scotland, with a very insightful piece in our series, #ProspectsForDegrowth
Proposals for Degrowth – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/01/proposals-for-degrowth/

New in the series #ProspectsForDegrowth
Familiarizing Degrowth: Art and Grounded Communities – Graham Janz
degrowthUK https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/29/familiarizing-degrowth-art-and-grounded-communities/
#degrowth #Arts

Familiarizing Degrowth: Art and Grounded Communities

by Graham Janz In the series Prospects for Degrowth Toward a voluntary and democratic degrowth Degrowth is voluntary and democratic. It can't be achieved through violence or unjustified coercion ––  though of course nature is coercive and, as Hannah Arendt puts it, so is the truth./

....... read more at
http://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/29/familiarizing-degrowth-art-and-grounded-communities/

In the series: #ProspectsForDegrowth #Arts

Response to Manuel and Mark

In the series Prospects for Degrowth
by Ted Trainer
Dear Manuel and Mark, thanks for your valuable commentaries on my impressions about the movement.
On Manuel’s response I think that Manuel is quite correct in noting that my comments do not apply well to some regions, and especially to Spain. His previous emails to me have given me the impression that the situation in Spain is far ahead of other regions...
http://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/27/response-to-manuel-and-mark/
#degrowth #ProspectsForDegrowth

In these dark times, are there prospects for degrowth?
What do we face?
How do we foment multi-level action for planned, ethical, equitable, anti-colonial degrowth?

Add your insights: https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/call-for-articles-prospects-for-degrowth/

#ProspectsForDegrowth #degrowth #TheseTimes #polycrisis