Great idea. Unfortunately the problem is always the same: moneyed interests buy corrupt politicians, be it in the USA, EU, or elsewhere, who block these measures. Great ideas do not always change policy. Politics do. […]
Jason Hickel examines the arguments of green growth and finds them lacking. Green growth is simply not capable of reversing ecological breakdown and keep global warming under 1.5 degrees. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who […]
This is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking interview, chock full of fresh thinking on sustainability, poverty and inequality, and the impact of the western-led development agenda across the world. Jason paints an eye-opening picture of the […]
With climate change completely out of control – and mostly ignored – the discussion concerning “degrowth” will increase in relevance and something we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to support. If you are new […]
Yesterday I stood in the hall of the Durham Union to argue for the proposition: “This house believes Britain owes reparations to its former colonies”. The following is the text of my ten-minute speech, followed […]
Last week Foreign Policy published an article I wrote titled “Why growth can’t be green.” It stirred a lively online discussion – and of course attracted dissenters. Among them was one Noah Smith, who penned […]
The promise of green growth turns out to have been based more on wishful thinking than on evidence. In the years since the Rio conference, three major empirical studies have arrived at the same rather […]
There is a third approach, however, proposed by Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge. Pogge argues that the morally relevant metric of progress against poverty is neither absolute numbers nor proportions, but rather the extent of global […]
Western media can’t seem to get enough of Moyo: her ideas stray little from old neoliberal mantras so endlessly recycled by establishment elites in the US and Europe. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works […]
That we are ignoring an impending ecological disaster does not necessitate much intellect. That the use of GDP is contributing to this process is also no secret. As Jason Hickel points out, both have to […]
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