Here's a quick round-up of highlights from our research and writing published in 2021, on degrowth, imperialism, decolonization and global justice. Free PDFs of all of these papers are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
1) Post-growth and degrowth policies are key to enabling us to decarbonize fast enough to stay under 1.5 or 2C in a safe and just way, and we need climate mitigation scenarios that describe these pathways. Here's our argument in Nature Energy: nature.com/articles/s4156…
2) What does degrowth mean? This short piece is intended to address a few common questions that newcomers raise: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
3) Degrowth visions are not just about ecology. They are also rooted in anti-colonial principles. Degrowth calls for an end to the patterns of imperial appropriation that underpin capitalism in the global North: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
4) How does imperialism work in the contemporary world economy? Here we describe "unequal exchange" and calculate that the global North has drained resources from the South worth $62 trillion since 1960: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
5) Our research on ecological and social indicators indicates that the existing economy isn't going to cut it. It devours the planet while failing to meet even basic human needs, because it's organized around profit and accumulation rather than well-being. nature.com/articles/s4189…
6) Do we need a Green New Deal or degrowth? Here we argue that we need both. If we want our GND to be technologically feasible, socially just and ecologically coherent, it needs to integrate degrowth principles: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
7) For more on degrowth, here's a debate I had with the World Bank's lead climate economist, which gave me the chance to elaborate further on questions of decoupling, climate strategy, and social policy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dp…
8) Here is a short piece on what radical climate policy in the global North would look like: a rapid reduction in fossil fuel use, a dramatic reduction in inequality, a social guarantee, and a commitment to climate reparations: currentaffairs.org/2021/11/what-w…
9) The pursuit of continued growth in the North relies on imperialist appropriation from the South. If we want to end this violence - and stop ecological breakdown - we need degrowth, and political alliances between environmentalists and labour unions: currentaffairs.org/2021/12/the-ag…
10) Here's a concrete proposal for how countries in the global South can throw off the shackles of imperialist capital, achieve economic decolonization and end poverty, while forcing the global North to reduce their plunder of the planet's resources: newint.org/features/2021/…
11) And here's a case for a Climate Job Guarantee as part of a post-growth transition (although sadly Foreign Policy ran with a title that doesn't really capture my argument): foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/23/sti…
Thank you all for sharing the journey with me over the past year, and thank you to all of my brilliant colleagues who were involved with or led this work. Free PDFs and open-access versions of all journal articles can be found here: jasonhickel.org/academic-work
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