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DegrowthUK network, bringing together those with an interest in learning about and promoting #degrowth in these islands. https://degrowthuk.org
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What is #degrowth?
We offer a definition wherein the fundamental core is the planned reduction of energy and material use to keep within planetary limits, while the associated 'pluriversal' belt of concepts and practices is also essential to degrowth.

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Définition of degrowth. In the centre is planned reduction of energy and materials and the supportive belt has the elements of sufficiency, anti-commodification, decoloniality, cooperation, democracy, prefiguration, solidarity, frugality, liberation, anti-capitalist, justice, sufficiency.
October 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Technology often developed in wrong direction due to profitability.

Sufficiency in rich countries is absolutely necessary.

Familiar recipe -
Tax the rich
Transform the collective conditions- for everyday life
Replace the logic of profitability with other logics - e.g. care.
Slide: Summary: Sufficiency in rich countries is absolutely necessary. Familiar recipe - Tax the rich Transform the collective conditions- for everyday life Replace the logic of profitability with other logics - e.g. care.
June 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Our series,

Prospects for Degrowth

Do add your thoughts, either picking up the overview in the first article, or raising further issues.
More to come next week.
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/

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An outline of the poly crisis and it's impacts globally. Follows the analysis in the first part of "Prospects for Degrowth 2025" https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/prospects-for-degrowth-2025/
May 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Dennis Meadows on the myth of technology as the answer to any obstacle.
From interview in 2022 with Juan Bordera.
https://mronline.org/2022/08/10/fifty-years-after-the-limits-to-growth/
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We have already discussed the widespread myth that technology will lead us to overcome any obstacle. We see it with the climate challenge: there is this thing called Carbon Capture and Sequestration. Despite the irrefutable fact that it is cheaper, quicker and easier to reduce energy consumption, the tendency is to look for the technological solution that will allow us to do what we can no longer do without causing serious damage. It is a total fantasy. The best we can say about CCS is that it is an idea that is going to make a few people a lot of money.
August 25, 2024 at 7:09 PM