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Emerging Signs of Grassroots Resistance to Growth

https://steadystate.org/emerging-signs-of-grassroots-resistance-to-growth/
Created
Fri, 16/09/2022 - 00:50
by Christy Shaw

There seem to be encouraging signs that more and more average Americans are speaking out and taking action to oppose uncontrolled growth. Concerned citizens are sounding the alarm that too much growth is doing far more harm than good in their towns, cities and communities.

While there does not yet appear to be a coordinated nationwide coalition of activism, there are definitely increasing signs of grassroots efforts to push back against the all-too common,

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Three Senate Races for Steady Staters to Monitor

https://steadystate.org/three-senate-races-for-steady-staters-to-monitor/
Created
Fri, 28/10/2022 - 04:06
by Brian Czech

Election Day is almost upon us. Along with the 435 House seats are thirty-five seats for grabs in the Senate. Our focus here is on the Senate races, given their high-profile candidates, substantial policy stakes, and excellent examples of growthmanship gone amuck (literally, in some agricultural cases).

Candidates fall along a spectrum—theoretically at least—from a degrowth to a pro-growth stance. It’s a “theoretical” spectrum because, at this point in the history of the USA,

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Slow is Beautiful: The Need to Decelerate

https://steadystate.org/slow-is-beautiful-the-need-to-decelerate/
Created
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 02:31
by Greg Mikkelson

Brian Czech once likened modern economic growth to a runaway train. This metaphor drives home the point that to save nature and humanity from an ecological train wreck, the most important thing is to decelerate the global economy. Unfortunately, much writing on environmental protection neglects this imperative and fixates instead on what we must accelerate.

For example, the must-read Living Planet Report,

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