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Less is more for more: Degrowth, sustainability and equality - Jason Hickel

Less is more for more: Degrowth, sustainability and equality - Jason Hickel

FromEconomics for Rebels


Less is more for more: Degrowth, sustainability and equality - Jason Hickel

FromEconomics for Rebels

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Feb 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Degrowth is a research field and a social movement that aims to transcend the primacy of economic growth and transition societies to an ecologically more sustainable and socially more just world. Overcoming our environmental sustainability hurdles through mainstream approaches like eco-modernisation does not even try to tackle the problems of social injustices like inequality. Our guest, Jason Hickel argues that the root of environmental and social problems is the same and through Degrowth we can address both of them at the same time. In this episode we talk about the solutions suggested by Degrowth to both sustainability and more equality.
Released:
Feb 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (55)

The world is on fire. We have to radically and rapidly transform every aspect of society to stay within 1.5 degrees of global warming. How is this possible? And how do we do this in a way that is fair? Ecological economists integrating ecological and critical social perspectives have long been working on ideas to bring about just sustainability transformations. This podcast aims at communicating these ideas in order to open them to critical discussion, from global problems to people’s everyday lives.