For anyone confused about the process of the Enclosures or M-C-M’, this is definitely a useful resource. In particular, Commons have intrinsic value despite abundance, whereas capitalist exchange-value requires artificial scarcity (central in the commodification market-creation of the Enclosures/colonialism/Neoliberal globalization). The core message is heavily driven by the idea of balance and equality, which is something not everyone agrees with.

Finally, Hickel goes on to describe the components of an economy that will be truly democratic and sustainable.It makes a well argued challenge to the claimed impact of technical approaches to climate change such as green new deals and alternative green generation of energy. La naiba, am ajuns pe drumul ăsta să tratăm și femeia ca pe ceva ce trebuie exploatat, de dragul creșterii. This book is a great companion book to the one I've mentioned before "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible" by Charles Eisenstein. In het eerste deel van het boek plaatst Hickel geschiedenis van de laatste 500 jaar in een compleet ander perspectief. Hickels also thoroughly explores our childish expectation that technology in "clean" energy will save us.

It is obvious that serious synthesis of de-growth economic systems is still something that is desperately needed.

Negative emissions technology: NET (and BECCS, in particular) is included in the IPCC’s scenarios for carbon drawdown, but the technology doesn’t even exist yet. Degrowth is a deliberate attempt to reduce the physical size of the economy — for example, we should prefer bicycles to cars, and plant foods to animal foods. The name is a bit unfortunate because it is as much about growth as capitalism, but of different things. He assumes that we must and will switch to renewable energy, and this is probably better than using fossil fuels, but is it enough? Dat zei ik een jaar geleden ook over “De Meeste Mensen Deugen” van Rutger Bregman, en ik zie inderdaad parallellen tussen deze twee belangrijke werken.

And it was surprising that most of the shocking information in the introduction was already known to me from various documentaries on the topic. I recently saw a documentary on how the nature strives and took back the lost land, after the Chernobyl accident. He describes the history of capitalism and how it got us to where we are with many advances in technology but with a very dark side.

We need to evolve beyond the dogmas of capitalism to a new system that’s fit for the twenty-first century.

To reverse capitalism’s logic, the ontological change is to dismantle the dualism, to move from dominion to reciprocity.We need to change how we see nature and our place in it, shifting from a philosophy of domination and extraction to one that’s rooted in reciprocity and regeneration. Should we hope that some new plague will wipe out half of humanity so that we will improve the lot of the working class? Eindelijk is een goed onderbouwd boek verschenen waarin aangetoond wordt dat de hardnekkige economische dogma’s van deze tijd, die door links en rechts algemeen aangenomen worden, helemaal geen goddelijke natuurwetten zijn. e. infant/women's health, reproductive rights, education, and of course overall improved living standards. This book lives in the same space as “Donut Economics” by Kate Raworth, but is executed much much better.