The case for degrowth in a time of pandemic
Article / 23rd May 2020What is happening during this pandemic is not degrowth. Our real goal is to purposefully slow things down in order to live meaningfully through commoning, sharing and working less in more equal societies, write Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.
People in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system
Article / 7th May 2020Far from being the ‘great leveller’, COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities, writes Meera Karunananthan for openDemocracy.
A new normal
Article / 30th April 2020“The pandemic has changed the game. We have the resources to build an economic model that doesn’t trash the planet and provides for all.” STWR join the statement from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.
Time to rally behind the World Health Organization: A civil society statement
Article / 30th April 2020“This is the time to insist on multilateralism, solidarity, and science based health policy making at global and national level. This is the time to rally behind WHO.”
‘Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.’ A global food crisis looms
Article / 30th April 2020The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say.