What is the relationship between economic growth and the environment? A degrowth critique of the ‘contingent’ position

Terry Leahy | January 14, 2025

This is a brief response to Tim Thornton’s recent article for JAPE (94, Summer 2024/2025), ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’. I am not intending to go into the arguments he uses in detail but instead to explain the green growth and degrowth positions as I [...]

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System Change Made Simple: Podcast

Terry Leahy | August 25, 2022

I am starting a podcast that may be of interest to PPE people. It is ‘System Change Made Simple’.

A phrase often used at climate actions is ‘system change not climate change’. This podcast explores that idea. What kind of system are we living with now? How do systems of exploitation [...]

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The Politics of Permaculture

Terry Leahy | September 7, 2021

Permaculture, it might be said, is notorious on the left for its anti-political standpoint. Mollison’s Global Gardener 1991 documentary TV series shows him strolling across a misty paddock, reflecting on his realisation that political protests achieved little. Instead, he suggests, planting [...]

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