Great news! Our book, The Future is Degrowth, is now available for pre-order.
I want to say a little bit here about its contents, and why I’m so excited about it.

versobooks.com/books/3989-the… Our co-author Matthias has also given a good summary here, touching on different aspects of the book:

https://twitter.com/MGSchmelzer/status/1441043520425316358

There is something wrong about the way we think about waste: some thoughts I've been mulling over. We see waste and we think that it is a shame that so much valuable stuff is going down the drain—all that squandered time, energy, and wealth.

I often see people ask, “what can we give the working class that will make them like environmentalism?”
The idea is that demands for ecological reparations, climate justice, etc., just won't appeal to the working people.
Some thoughts. Note that by working class, it is often meant the working class in industrialized countries. This group expects significant life improvements within the current system.

A lot of people know Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom from her work on the commons.
But many might not know that some of her first research in the 1970s on policing.
It can inform the reform vs. defunding debate, with some clear empirical findings. In 1970, Ostrom was a young professor at Indiana University. At the time, city governments were pushing to centralize their services, including police forces. They assumed that the more centralized the police force, the more funding they got, the less crime there would be.