Ivan Melchor is a research assistant with the VizE Lab for Ethnographic Data Visualization at Princeton University. He is conducting ethnographic and quantitative research on the environmental degradation caused by warehouse development in New Jersey and its implications for notions of environmental justice and environmental racism. He has previously published work with Angles, an urban planning website, and has a forthcoming article set to be published in the UNC-Chapel Hill Planning Journal titled “Molded to Consumption: Warehouse Development and Environmental Justice in the Growth Society” in Spring 2024.
Sacrifice and the Growth Society: Perspectives on Degrowth and Environmental Justice
In the global North, degrowth should not be posed as a movement that calls for unjust sacrifice but as an instrumental tool in helping to end it.
January 23, 2024