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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but healthcare, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.That’s the radical vision proposed by philosophy professor and Marxist scholar Kohei…

The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism is an expanded version of Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung (2018) by Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter. In an interview to a Montreal-based book review journal, Aaron Vansintjan, who has been credited as co-author in the English edition, stated that “while growth is a powerful stabilizing mechanism of capitalist modernity, it destabilizes the ecological foundations of human life also on this planet.” Degrowth is a variant of post capitalism “organising…

Climate change is being fueled by the release of greenhouse gas emissions and those emissions are coming from every sector of the global economy: Electricity, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, industrial processes. Collectively, greenhouse gas emissions have generally been climbing for decades. Activists often advocate using less and consuming less as one potential solution to climate change — degrowth, it's often called.This idea is quixotic, according to Bill Gates, who founded Breakthrough Energy, an…

According to a new study, we need to transform the global food system in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.“Just shrinking the size of our current food system won’t cut emissions much. Instead, we need to transform the very nature of that global food system,” says Benjamin Bodirsky, a researcher at Potsdam and the World Vegetable Center in Tainan, Taiwan, and author of a new study published in the journal Nature Food.“That means on the one hand that people consume what they need in terms of nutritional…

Endless economic growth isn’t essential to being able to live a ‘good life.’ Credit: Shutterstock There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC's working groups—those focused on climate change impacts and on mitigation—use the economic term to discuss policies that are key to reducing the impacts of…