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Rampant consumerism doesn’t happen by itself: it is encouraged by an economic system that requires perpetual economic growth.

We aren’t losing earth — but the earth is getting so hot so fast that it is on a trajectory to lose a great many of us. In the nick of time, a new political path to safety is presenting itself. This is no moment to bemoan our lost decades. It’s the moment to get the hell on that path.

One of the main barriers between us and a stable planet — one that isn’t actively hostile to human civilization over the long term — is our economic system.

Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.

Why focus on production of goods, rather than on health, education and environment?

The world's richest countries accounted for half of the global population but emitted 86 percent of annual CO2 emissions.

Consciously downscaling our levels of consumption of materials and energy for a better world for ourselves and future generations.

Like all efforts to make large systemic changes, a revolution in economics education will be messy and slow, but have the potential to transform public life.

How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. 

Rightwing nationalism threatens the global solidarity needed to avoid a climate catastrophe

Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice.

In response to the intersecting challenges of the Anthropocene, scholars who take a broader and more critical view of current economic models have described the shortcomings of orthodox economic theory along with the severe consequences of its systemic discounting of the environment.

This is how the Italian city of Bologna is getting people to leave their cars behind.

130 models from across the world show that we can stop catastrophic climate change with technology that exists today

There is no evidence that growing incomes or carbon footprint improve either wellbeing indicator over time. 

Herders in one of the most biodiverse places on earth are reviving ancient traditions to cope with climate change.

In the wake of the stark U.N. report, direct-action groups like Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion are out to disrupt the fossil fuel economy.

With sea levels rising in Miami, “climate gentrification” is driving up prices in high-ground areas, pushing people out of working-class neighborhoods.

A Post-Growth economy is not only necessary for planetary survival, but will make our lives way better, too. These films explain why.

For two hundred years, capitalism has depended on extraction from nature and human bodies. It has always needed an “outside,” external to itself, from which it can plunder some kind of original value, for free, without an equivalent return. That’s what fuels growth. So what happens when capital is no longer allowed to plunder nature? Where will it turn to next, in its hunger for growth? What new forms of exploitation will it devise?