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But what is the GDP exactly? How did it become the go-to proxy for prosperity in Western media? What are its ideological inputs, and how did post-war notions of colonialism and extractivism helps cement its place in our collective mindset? How can it be replaced?

An open letter and call to action for members of Congress

If the short-term outlook for the fossil fuel industry is, frankly, a hellscape, the long-term outlook is arguably not that much better.

The coronavirus pandemic is teaching us a lot about the nature of crises, which will come in handy this century.

Our current financial crisis offers a rare chance to rapidly alter our energy system.

New radical social policies can combine social prosperity and low-carbon emissions and are economically and politically feasible.

Can economic growth be made greener, or must we look beyond growth to achieve sustainability? An important new study shows that the pursuit of ‘green growth’ would increase inequality and unemployment unless accompanied by radical social policies.

The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.

First, given the finite nature of our planet, infinite economic growth — even of a different variety — is a logical impossibility.

"Despite enormous efforts to decouple economies from resource use, the extraction of mineral resources has increased markedly in recent decades and, over the last decade, at a faster rate than economic growth."

Amazon could turn into source of CO2 in atmosphere by next decade, research suggests

The plastics industry has created 6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste since 1950. 91% has never been recycled. “It’s fraudulent. When you drill down into plastics recycling, you realize it’s a myth.”

Given the realities of ecological overshoot, if we want to satisfy the socio-economic rights of the poor we can no longer rely on aggregate economic growth. Instead, we need a fairer distribution of existing global income.

If worker pay had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year today.

How about this for a demand? You work for six years and you get a whole paid year off to do whatever the hell you want.

If we measure the wrong thing, we will do the wrong thing.

It’s time for mandatory cutbacks on the kinds of consumption that threaten all of us.

It’s worth hearing about how much the norms of work dominate our lives - and what it might mean to use both automation, and climate crisis, to shift the balance back towards free time.

Though already a very good city for bicycling, in recent years Utrecht has decided to go a step further and reduce the number of cars in the city's center.

Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out.