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Sep 21, 2024 | 
realprogressives.substack.com | Erin Remblance |Real Progressives |Ndongo Samba Sylla |Thomas Fazi
When people reject the concept of degrowth are they suggesting society continue to allow capital to ravage the earth? Are they saying the countries of the global North should continue exploiting and extracting from the global South? Are they pushing for more growth? Steve’s guest, Erin Remblance is an Australian researcher and activist who was spurred into action six years ago when the IPCC released their special report on global warming of 1.5°C.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
erinremblance.substack.com | Erin Remblance
Wednesday 2nd August 2023 was Earth Overshoot Day. That is, the day in which “humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year”. For the remainder of the year, we were stealing from future generations. With this in mind, it is worth considering how might our response to our ecological crises, which extend far beyond climate change, be different if we were filled with awe and wonder for the Natural World?
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
illuminem.com | Erin Remblance
There isn’t a culture of change … yetI live an ‘average’ suburban life in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
glli-us.org | Erin Remblance
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating, by Jeff Sparrow240 pagesScribe publishingPublished 2nd November 2021ISBN: 9781922310705I read this book last year and have quoted from it many times. I include it in my top eight books of the last few years.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
erinremblance.substack.com | Erin Remblance
Photo by Thomas Kelley on UnsplashEmissions continue to rise. Governments are failing us. A ‘global tipping point’ could be activated in as little as years. Why aren’t we doing more to solve the greatest threat humanity has ever faced? Capitalism is the root cause of our ecological crisis and the key barrier to solving it. There are two reasons for this.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
erinremblance.substack.com | Erin Remblance
We are living in significant and consequential times. We face a crisis of both people and the planet that requires our urgent attention, or we risk devastating outcomes. But there is hope. The planetary crisis is largely a by-product of the people crisis and both can be addressed with the one solution: putting people and the planet firmly at the centre of our economy.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
canberratimes.com.au | Erin Remblance
As a nation we are exceeding several planetary boundaries - not just climate change, but also land-use change (deforestation), phosphorus and nitrogen run-off, and material and ecological footprints. Over the last 200 years Australia has suffered the largest of any continent. Globally, we are living as if we have 1.75 planet Earths, which means that over-consuming nations, like Australia, are stealing from under-consuming nations and future generations to fuel our lifestyles today.
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Jun 4, 2023 | 
linkedin.com | Erin Remblance
Erin Remblance Erin Remblance (re)Biz | Degrowth | Climate | MMT | Vegan Published Jun 4, 2023 Lately I've been reading some of the same old arguments against degrowth. These anti-degrowth arguments all tend to be similar in their lack of understanding of what the term means, their clutching at growth for reasons that can be debunked, and their irrational and science-denying attachment to business as usual dressed up as 'green growth'.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
resilience.org | Erin Remblance
Does endless economic growth really lead to “the good life”? Today’s dominant culture considers endless economic growth as a necessary component of “the good life”, but is this really the case? Firstly, and at the risk of stating the obvious, for economic growth to be providing “the good life”, one must be on the receiving end of the perceived benefits of that economic growth in the first place.
