Yusra Bitar is a researcher from the Levant ecoregion, currently completing her MSc in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at the New School. Her current passions include food sovereignty as a means of liberation, in addition to understanding the global military’s contribution to climate change and ecocide. Her interest in post growth comes through the degrowth route, which she was first exposed to through a related art piece in a magazine. Positive ideation for the future has been on an upward slope through the degrowth lens since then. She previously worked as a “development” consultant in Beirut. She was born and raised in Beirut and currently lives in New York City.
Prosperous Transitions and Global Warnings: Lebanon’s Economic Collapse
Lebanon’s recession shows outlines that could heal the metabolic rift between economy and ecology. It calls for new ways of living, manufacturing, growing food, transportation, and every other aspect of our existence. This is the prosperous way forward.
March 9, 2022