Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
When I go in search of figures, numbers, data, about energy in relation to ecology and economy, I’m often brought to the website of the very same EPA whose lead scientist studying sewage sludge faked his science and unleashed a toxic torrent upon the world.
Understand having “anything and everything-all of the time” is no longer an option in a world on fire. Halve your cake so that maybe together we can continue eating it.
We are living in a context today in which the physical limits, natural resource constraints, and conditions of overshoot associated with the expansion of the dominant system of production and consumption are becoming increasingly clear.
Degrowth is about redefining how things work in the current unsustainable system, focusing on the values of cooperation and sharing, as well as social and environmental justice.
My point is that if we’re going to really have an energy transition it will have to be primarily a transition to a much less energy intensive economy and material culture.
The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.
Degrowth leads to a sexy place where we all want to live. Neoliberalism forces us all to exist in solitary confinement until we die…
During their American stopover, the crew of the Nomade des Mers went to the rolling plains of Virgina to meet the Living Energy Farm. An intentional community of a dozen people who have achieved an impressive level of energy and food autonomy thanks to low-tech!
It would be folly to continue building bulky, heavy, massively overpowered vehicles to move one or two passengers along roads, and therefore devoting a huge share of our still scarce clean power supplies to building and/or operating that oversized vehicle fleet.
We don’t need to change the name ‘degrowth’. What we need is for more of us in wealthy nations to intuitively associate the term ‘economic growth’ with ‘collapse’.
The Future Is Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
How does low tech differ from high tech and what does it feel like to live a low tech lifestyle?
