'Degrowth means power to the working class!'with Jason Hickel

We've always said that environmentalism needs to understand class if it wants to protect the world from climate catastrophe. Degrowth has been accused by some on the Left as green austerity or just a terrible political message.

To debunk degrowth myths and to discuss why class is at the heart of any just transition and a degrowth economy we are join by Jason Hickel. Jason is the author of"Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" and a world-leading scientist and scholar on Degrowth.

We discuss how class politics and environmentalism should work in tandem, why capitalism can't stop the climate crisis, why Universal Basic Services (UBS) is at the heart of a Degrowth economy, how trade unions need to remember their radical past and how the EU conference on beyond growth is opening the doors for more radical policy in Europe.

Links
Read Jason's book "Less is More: How Degrowth with Save the World"

Read "The Conquest of Bread" by Pëtr Kropotkin
Shout outs
Prabhat Patnaik & Utsa Patnaik, authors of "Capital and Imperialism", which you can buy here

Max Ajl, Check out our episode with him back in 2021

Senegalese economist Ndongo Samba Sylla

Mark Burton for introducing Ads to Degrowth.

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[dodiewallace]

Reducing dependence on hydrocarbons won't come from blocking oil, it will come from having an equally effective substitute.
If we're about reducing dependence on hydrocarbons we would concentrate on adding more nuclear power.

[GeoffV-kh]

If the Govt is having to provide a job guarantee, what does the worker made unemployed by the transition do?

[anthonymorris]

Degrowth, from the people who don't even understand what growth means.

[poseidon]

Weapons. Yeah he's a good chap! NoWars!

[mkperez]

This guy gets to decide what is necessary for you is the bottom line.

[leskuzyk]

Go you Jason ... me too ... climate justice is the same as social justice

[krautergarten]

Mr. Jason seams not to know what free market means or how it works 🙈🙉 ...