Economic growth has turned into the sole goal to guarantee social stability and quality of life in our societies. While ongoing economic growth increases the pressure on the environment and is the main driver of anthropogenic climate change, climate change has turned into a limitation to further growth.
Are we faced with new limits to growth 40 years after the famous report to the Club of Rome? The age of easy growth is over – holding onto it at any costs exacerbates global environmental conflicts and shifts the burdens on marginalized social groups and the Global South.
This is not the whole story: worldwide social movements are experimenting alternative paths for a social ecological transformation beyond economic growth and within the planetary boundaries. Environmental Philosopher Prof. Barbara Muraca introduces the us to the growing worldwide degrowth movement.
The Radical Visions for Another Politics Lecture Series is co-sponsored by:
the Anarres Project for Alternative Future
http://anarresproject.org/
Allied Students for Another Politics (ASAP!)
http://asap.moonfruit.com/
& the School of History, Philosophy, & Religion at Oregon State. http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/shpr