Mike Small, Author at Enough!

True Prosperity and New Metabolisms

This is an outline of how we might situate degrowth in a history of alternative economics and regenerative movements, in the context of brutal new scientific and socio-economic realities. What does 'true prosperity' look like in times of socio-ecological crisis?"Degrowth means primarily the abolition of economic growth as a social objective. This implies a...

Traces of a Viable Future

In each issue of Less we will be speaking to people organising around principles of Degrowth as we seek out the trace elements of a new economy and a new society. For this issue we spoke to Alon Schwabe & Daniel Fernández Pascual from the Climavore project on Skye, to Chris Hellawell founder of the...

Degrowth and our Post-Covid Future

When we launched the Degrowth Commission in Govan almost a year ago we knew we'd meet some resistance. The idea of "growth" is so hard-wired into our brains it's seen as an essential good.Growth is everything. Growth is deeply associated with progress, both social and personal. Growth is assumed to be the thing...

Less

The Degrowth Commission is publishing the first issue of its journal 'Less' in February 2020.This is a call for papers. This is a 'economic and ecological' journal, recognising that the climate crisis is part of a wider socio-ecological crisis. Contributions are invited from anyone, this is not a publication confined to or...

Piu Caprim, “Sad Leaves”

Piu Caprim, “sad leaves”, from Bella Caledonia on Vimeo.

Marie Kondo and the Anthropocene

The Netflix craze of the year is the comforting appearance of Marie Kondo bringing her domestic Zen presence to Western homes. De-cluttering as crisis-management, a sort of pious lifestyle comfort-viewing for the existentially distressed. It’s the world being sorted by folding towels properly.But there’s a deeper current at play, and that’s the crisis of accumulation....

Paris-Texas, Imagining a Post-Oil Scotland

Last summer everything seemed to come together. System failure surrounds us. Capitalism is facing a physical crisis that can’t be ignored. Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism’s main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, we’re told of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in just the last...

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