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Video: Growth or Life?

July 13, 2018 by fede No Comments

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‘Good news’ claiming ‘falling global poverty’ isn’t news at all

September 27, 2016 by The Rules No Comments

Media reporting that heralds the success of global poverty reduction strategies making claims such as "the number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.90 per person per day) has tumbled by half in two decades" is still very much routine. However, articles like Nicholas Kristof's recent piece in the New...

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To Save The Economy, We Have To Break Its One Sacred Rule

April 10, 2016 by Jason No Comments

We must stop worshiping the false god of GDP growth.

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The peoples’ voice to challenge inequality

February 5, 2016 by Guest No Comments

At the dawn of the New Millennium there was a big talk about reaching the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and amongst other goals is to eradicate poverty, illiteracy, to provide basic amenities and health care to all and the People were made to believe that all the problems would...

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Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity

December 25, 2015 by Alnoor No Comments

In 1972, the Club of Rome published a groundbreaking study titled The Limits to Growth. MIT scientists used computer simulations to create scenarios playing out how exponential growth interacts with finite resources. The findings were devastating. The growth trends in human population, combined with rampant consumption, led to resource depletion,...

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2015 did not deliver, frugal abundance will

December 18, 2015 by François Delvaux No Comments

2015 will soon be over. During this year, two major documents that were supposed to shape our common future were adopted – and as this blog post is being written, negotiations in Paris are slowly coming to an end.

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It’s time to move beyond growth for growth’s sake

December 5, 2015 by Martin Kirk 2 Comments

Growth for growth’s sake is the poison in the well; the fatal flaw that is leading us over the cliff of environmental and social catastrophe. Given how central this problem is to the future, it amounts to a dereliction of duty by those responsible. It is now up to the...

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Is money energy?

November 24, 2015 by Guest No Comments

Alnoor invites us to take a closer look at how money and the current economic structure affect climate change. He explains how climate change is not man-made in the traditional sense, but actually capital-made: every dollar of wealth created heats up our planet. Challenging us to question the current set...

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4 examples that show that poverty isn’t a natural human condition

October 17, 2015 by Thomas Pichon 3 Comments

Although Gates has a noble purpose trying to help eradicate poverty, he seems to be missing the main point: he is not addressing where poverty comes from and how it’s generated. His actions aim at attacking the symptoms only, not what has caused poverty in the first place.