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Latouche/Kingsnorth & Hine Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
Latouche/Kingsnorth & Hine Mind Map
Latouche: Farewell to Growth
Governments= capital's "functionaries".
Question: Does de-growth movement lead to new political program?
How feasible is it to revert back to lower energy consumption and production?
Concept of eco-taxes
Difficulties with implementing such taxes
"Taxes should ensure that the polluters bear the cost of the harmful external effects they have on their neighbours, and subsidies should be used to reward the producers of positive external effects" (74).
Concept of "polluter pays"
Concept of sustainable job markets in a de-growth society
"A de-growth society could, at all events, provide productive waged work for all those who want it rather than, by more or less artificial means, transforming non-market activities into waged labour and increasing the number of parasitic or servile jobs" (80).
However: free time must some with meaning, or else it will be useless.
Reduction of work hours and improvement in the quality of work provided- Quality over quantity!
Is de-growth feasible in a capitalist society?
"De-growth is fundamentally anticapitalist. Not so much because it denounces the contradictions and ecological and social limitations of capitalism as because it challenges its 'spirit', in the sense that Max Weber sees the 'spirit of capitalism' as a precondition for its existence" (91).
Kingsnorth and Hine of The Dark Mountain Project
The monotony of everyday life disguises how fragile civilization is.
Civilization is not only fragile, but can unravel extremely quickly.
"It is built on little more than belief: belief in the rightness of its values; belief in the strength of its system of law and order; belief in its currency; above all, perhaps, belief in its future"
Myth of progress: we're destined for greatness
Founded on the myth of nature: greatness is cost-free
Issue of our environmental footprint and climate change on the course of human development and the potential for the collapse of civilization
"Ecocide demands a response. That response is too important to be left to politicians, economists, conceptual thinkers, number crunchers; too all-pervasive to be left to activists or campaigners. Artists are needed"
"Uncivilized art and writing"
The Dark Mountain Project is the beginning or catalyst for "Uncivilization", which is guided by eight principles