Wellbeing Archives ⋆ Enough!

Open Letter to the First Minister

Enough! has joined with another 115 charities, economists, businesses, trade unions and academics to send an open letter to Scotland’s First Minister calling for an “urgent transition to a Wellbeing Economy.” Read the statement here: 'Redesigning our Economy for People and Planet: Joint Statement on the Wellbeing Economy (weallscotland.org)' and the text of the...

Why we need cosmological limits to growth

Dr Katharina Richter on the cultural direction of socio ecological transformations. Illustrations by Deborah Mullen.Degrowth is a big tent, peopled by ecological economists, political ecologists, activists, (eco)feminists, anthropologists, artists, researchers, students, political scientists, sociologists, and many more. Participants in a social movement, degrowthers are often both researchers and activists. They provide compelling answers to...

DE/GROWTH: Human Ecology, Economy, Community

An online collaborative learning programme with a residential learning retreat / field trip to Ullapool, run in partnership by the Centre for Human Ecology and Enough! Scotland.The programme consists of A weekly online session: Wednesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm, Sept 14th - Nov 16th 2022A residential learning retreat and field trip in the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool...

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...

Wasted Opportunity: Decoupling Social Mobility from Resource Consumption

Kate Chambers on the class divisions and social inequality exposed by the pandemic, and the environmental imperative to decouple social mobility from growth and resource consumption.During the global pandemic, Naomi Klein asked the newly furloughed classes, those of us who could afford the luxury of isolation, the ones framed in opposition to ‘key workers’:“What...

Unlearning Empire – Remembering Earth

Vishwam Heckert explores how we move beyond empire and imperialism, abstraction and disconnection: “...if we wish to transform our world, we cannot do so without unlearning the embodied and psychic habit of separating ‘us’ and ‘them’ or ‘me’ from the ‘world’.”You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your...

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...

What We Might Find in Making Ourselves at Home

In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world’s most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivaled prosperity: we have ‘arrived’. More than that, through debt, inequality, climate change and fractured politics, the fruits of growth may rot before everyone has a chance to enjoy them. It’s high time to ask where progress is taking us, and are we nearly there yet? This is an extract from The Economics of Arrival – Ideas for a Grown Up Economy by Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams.