Q31a Post Modem Ideologies

The Left, Ecology and Degrowth. A panel with Feyzi Ismail, Kai Heron, Kin Chi Lau and Matt Huber  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-K_zy9NkeI 
Saturday 20 April 2024 . As climate change, global warming and massive loss of biodiversity disproportionately affect people along class, race and gender lines, acknowledging that Climate Struggle is Class Struggle is now more urgent than ever. But debates about how exactly the left should address this multi-layered crisis run deep. Whilst degrowth is increasingly gaining appeal—not the least in the mainstream—, it is necessary critically to assess its proposals and limitations. Can degrowth mean anything more than a ‘programme of aggregate reduction’ or ‘ecological austerity’? How does degrowth fit, if at all, within struggles for socio-economic justice, especially in the Global South? Are the analytical tools and the political arguments deployed by the degrowth movement useful to challenge capitalism?