Thank you for following along on our #DegrowthLitMonth journey over the month of December 2023. I hope you found some interesting and insightful books to add to your ‘must-read’ list. I really can’t stress enough how learning about Degrowth has made me realize that there are alternatives to the destructive path we are on. We can put people and the planet at the heart of our economies, and not simply the growth in the value of financial transactions during a given time period (it seems so odd that we do that, don’t you think?). My hope is that more people start to realize this, and that we begin to change the dominant narrative: away from harm-causing growth, and towards life-affirming degrowth.

Here is the list of titles we featured during December, linked to their post:

1. Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, Jason Hickel
2. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter
3. Degrowth and Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation, by Nathan Barlow, Livia Regen, Noémie Cadiou, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Max Hollweg, Christina Plank, Merle Schulman and Verena Wolf (eds)
4. The Deficit Myth: How to build a better economy, by Stephanie Kelton
5. Farewell to Growth, by Serge Latouche
6. Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future, edited by Samuel Alexander and Amanda McLeod
7. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows
8. Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa, by Dipo Faloyin
9. Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, by Siddharth Kara
10. Pluriverse: A Post-Devlopment Dictionary, by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta
11. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, by Amitav Ghosh
12. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, by Jason Hickel
13. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
14. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation, by Samuel Alexander
15. Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert
16. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta
17. The Case for Degrowth, by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria
18. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, by Kate Raworth
19. Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating, by Jeff Sparrow
20. Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era, edited by Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis
21. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
22. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto by Kohei Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom
23. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
24. The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World, by Vincent Bevins
25. Ralentir ou périr: L’économie de la décroissance, by Timothée Parrique
26. Change: How to Make Big Things Happen, by Damon Centola

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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