Controversies

• La transition environnementale, compatible avec la croissance économique ? (Delphine Batho versus Bruno Le Maire, Le Monde, 27/01/2022)
• Reply: Réponse à Bruno Le Maire: Appauvrissement, asservissement, et autres malentendus sur la décroissance (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 29/01/2022)

• A critique of degrowth (David Schwartzman, Anarchist Federation, 05/01/2022)
• Reply: Eco-socialism and degrowth (Simon Butler, Climate & Capitalism, 06/01/2022)

• The case against degrowth (Stijn Bruers, personal blog, 29/12/2021)

• De-growth: A misunderstanding turns into a political agenda (Christian Helmenstein, Wienerborse, December 2021)

• ‘Degrowth’ Is a Misguided Way to Decarbonize the Economy (Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg, 03/12/2021)

• The Next Economy: Why the growth and degrowth debate misses the point (Nafeez Ahmed, Rethink Disruption, 10/11/2021)

• It’s not just Evergrande—unearthing the rot in China’s financial system (Anonymous, The Economist, 10/11/2021)

• The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth (Noah Smith, personal blog, 09/11/2021)
• Reply: A response to Noah Smith: Is degrowth bad economics? (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 04/12/2021)
• Reply: Twitter thread (Simon Mair, 09/11/2021); retweet of an older Twitter thread (Giorgos Kallis, 09/11/2021)

• La décroissance, totalement fou ! (Miguel Ouellette, Radiox, 02/11/2021)

• COP26: Face à la crise climatique, la croissance verte ou la décroissance ? (Aurore Lalucq vs. Vincent Liegey vs. Philippe Zaouti, Arte, 02/11/2021)

• Degrowth deconstructed (Ted Nordhaus, Decouple Podcast, 23/10/2021)

• Décroissance : la seule solution à la crise écologique ? (Denis Olivennes versus Dominique Méda, Public Sénat, 21/09/2021)

• La décroissance n’est pas une option pour les pays pauvres ou riches face au changement climatique (Guntram Wolff, Klaas Lenaerts, et Simone Tagliapietra, Le Monde, 10/10/2021)

• Croissance, décroissance, a-croissance (Jacques Attali, LinkedIn, 16/09/2021)
• Reply: Réponse à Jacques Attali: Ralentir pour survivre (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 01/10/2021)

• Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling? (Jason Hickel vs Stéphane Hallegatte, Development Policy Review, 07/09/2021)

• Comment peut-on matérialiser la “décroissance” prônée par Delphine Batho (Agnès Michel versus Rafik Smati et Robin Rivaton, BFM Business, 13/09/2021)

• Pourquoi la décroissance n’est pas la solution (Damien Conzelmann, Contrepoints, 09/09/2021)

• La décroissance, un mot mal choisi (Clément Viktorovitch, France Inter, 06/09/2021)

• People are realizing that degrowth is bad (Noah Smith, personal blog, 06/09/2021)
• Reply: Twitter thread, a brief response to Noah Smith (Jason Hickel, Twitter, 09/09/2021)

• The ‘degrowth’ delusion (Ivo Vegter, Daily Friend, 31/08/2021). And also: Limits to growth affirmed, wrongly, again (Ivo Vegter, Daily Friend, 10/08/2021)

• My reading habits, explained, and other questions (Ezra Klein, The New York Times, 31/08/2021)

• Pro-Growth Isn’t Anti-Environment (Matthew C. Klein, The Overshoot, 21/08/2021)

• Tony Blair ‘A Masterclass in Climate Geopolitics’ (Michael Liebreich & Tony Blair, Cleaning Up: Episode 38, 14/04/2021)
• Reply: The wilful ignorance of Tony Blair (Jeremy Williams, Earthbound, 17/08/2021)

• Who would kill children to save the planet? (Tom Chivers, UnHerd, 13/08/2021)
• Reply: Twitter thread (Jason Hickel, 13/08/2021)

• Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy? (Kelsey Piper, Vox, 03/08/2021)
• Reply: Twitter thread (Jason Hickel, 04/08/2021)
• Reply: Twitter thread (Giorgos Kallis, 04/08/2021)

• Radical resetters’ press release: Degrowth, radically reduce living standards (Paul Homewood, 23/07/2021)

• Degrowth: An environmental ideology with good intentions, bad politics (Colin Chambers, 20/07/2021)

• Degrowth Policies Cannot Avert Climate Crisis. We Need a Green New Deal (Robert Pollin, 03/07/2021)

• Degrowth remains a slogan (A review of Jason Hickel “Less is More” by Sara Abraham, Jamhoor, 09/06/2021)

• The Climate Crisis and Degrowth (Robert Pollin versus Jason Hickel, Tech Empire, 29/05/2021)

• Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom (Bronwyn Williams & Johan Fourie, The Small Print, 27/05/2021)

• Degrowth: A North American Vision (Brian Czech, Steady State Herald, 06/05/2021)
• Reply: Twitter tread (DegrowUS, Twitter, 19/05/2021)

• La décroissance est vraiment une connerie (Luc Ferry, Bien Entendu Radio Canada, 25/05/2021)
• Reply: La décroissance, c’est une vie plus simple, plus juste, et plus démocratique (Yves-Marie Abraham, Bien Entendu Radio Canada, 07/06/2021)

• Degrowth Care: Two commentaries worth mentioning (Alexander Dunlap, UiO, 19/05/2021)

• A Brief Note on the Language of “Degrowth” & “Communism” (Kali Koba, Desperate Times, 14/05/2021)

• Degrowth and the pluriverse: continued colonially or intercultural revolution? (Saurabh Arora & Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre, 05/05/2021)
• Reply: A response to Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling: Snails Don’t Bite or: Why you should not worry about degrowth turning imperial (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 12/05/2021)
• Replay back: Is degrowth already colonial? (Saurabh Arora & Andy Stirling, 28/06/2021)

• Naive Questions on Degrowth (Kenta Tsuda, New Left Review, March-April 2021)

• Is economic growth incompatible with solving climate change? (Zeke Hausfather versus Tim Jackson, The World, 30/04/2021)

• The anti-colonial politics of degrowth (Jason Hickel, Political Geography, 28/04/2021)

• Degrowth w/Fox & Alex of Space Commune (Peter Coffin & Ms. Astronaut Cowboy Doctor, PACD, 23/04/2021)

• Resources Are More Abundant Than Ever, and People Are the Reason (Marian L. Tupy & Gale Pooley, Cato Unbound, 21/04/2021)
• Reply: Why Malthus’s Gospel of Growth Was, and Still Is, Wrong (Giorgos Kallis, Cato Unbound, 21/04/2021)
• Reply: From a Harmless Bet to Russian roulette (Katherine Trebeck & Dirk Philipsen, Cato Unbound, 16/04/2021)
• Reply back: How Dematerialization is Changing the World (Gale Pooley & Marian L. Tupy, Cato Unbound, 27/04/2021)
• Further reply: Degrowth, Not Efficiency, Is What Matters (Giorgos Kallis, Cato Unbound, 05/05/2021)

• Destroying degrowth with facts and logic (Matt Huber, Space Commune, 10/04/2021)
• Reply: A response to Matt Huber: Facts and logic in support of degrowth (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 12/04/2021)
• Reply back: A response to Timothée Parrique (Matt Huber, personal blog, 29/04/2021)

• How stalling growth hurts the planet (Bryan Walsh, Axios, 20/03/2021)
• Reply: A response to Bryan Walsh: The card castle of degrowth (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 26/03/2021)
• Reply: Don’t Diss Degrowth; It May Be the Key to Decarbonization (Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 24/03/2021)

• The economies that are home to the poorest billions of people need to grow if we want global poverty to decline (Max Roser, Ourworldindata, 22/02/2021)
• Reply: Twitter thread 1 and 2 by Giorgos Kallis (21/02/2021 and 24/02/2021)

• Degrowth: solving the impasse by magical thinking (Branko Milanović, personal blog, 20/02/2021) and Climate change, covid and global inequality (ibid. 21/02/2021)
• Replies: The magic of degrowth (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 25/02/2021); Is the world poor, or unjust? (Jason Hickel, personal blog, 22/02/2021); ; Radically progressive degrowth: reducing resource use by eliminating inequality (Blair Fix, Economics from the top down, 26/02/2021); A Response to Branko Milanović (Jasminka Dedić, Global Policy, 04/03/2021)

• Comment susciter l’adhésion à la lutte contre les changements climatiques (Nicolas Marceau, Le Devoir, 16/02/2021)
• Reply: Pour un vrai débat sur la décroissance (Yves-Marie Abraham, Podemos, February 2021)

• The case for socialist modernism (Matt Huber, Political Geography, 10/02/2021)

• Mirages de la décroissance (Leigh Phillips, Le Monde Diplomatique, February 2021; English translation: How much stuff is just enough?)
• Reply 1: Réponse à Leigh Phillips : la décroissance pour les nuls (Parrique, TimotheeParrique.com, 10/02/2021)
• Reply 1 bis: La décroissance pour les nuls (Timothée Parrique, Silence, October 2021)
• Reply 2: What do we produce and why? (Vincent Liegey, Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2021)

• Reply: What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’ (Trainer, Globalizations, 15/01/2021)

• Yanis Varoufakis on degrowth (Varoufakis, The Jolly Swagman Podcast, 26/11/2020)
• Reply: A response to Yanis Varoufakis: Star Trek and Degrowth (Parrique, timotheeparrique.com, 03/01/2021)
• Reply back: To rid ourselves of GDP we need to move beyond capitalism, to ANOTHER NOW – Response to Timothée Parrique’s response (Varoufakis, YanisVaroufakis.eu, 05/01/2021)

• After the pandemic: Hope and breakthroughs for 2021 (Nordhaus & Trembath, Breakthrough Institute, 29/12/2020)
• Reply: Bliss, Twitter Thread, 02/01/2021

• A Critique of Degrowth: an Ecosocialist Alternative (Schwartzman, Global Ecosocialist Network, 17/12/2020)

• Growth and De-growth: What should ecosocialists say? (Molyneux, Global Ecosocialist Network, 16/12/2020)
• Reply: A reply to John Molyneux and Michael Lowy on degrowth (Proyect, personal blog, 18/12/2020)
• Reply: In response to Louis N. Proyect on degrowth (Molyneux, Global Ecosocialist Network, 23/12/2020)
• Reply: Degrowth: Socialism without growth (Parrique & Kallis, Brave New Europe, 10/02/2021)

• Securing prosperity (Leopold Aschenbrenner, personal blog, 19/10/2020)

• Why Degrowth Is the Worst Idea on the Planet (McAfee, Wired, 06/10/2020).
• Reply: No, the “environmental Kuznets curve” won’t save us (Hickel, jasonhickel.org, 10/10/2020)

• Degrowth won’t take us anywhere but back to the past (Dans, medium, 07/10/2020).
• Reply: A response to Enrique Dans: Decoupling is fake news (Parrique, timotheeparrique.com, 21/12/2020)

• Degrowth and neo-Malthusianism: A socialist response (Rickson, Youtube, 25/10/2020)
• Reply: Parrique (2020a), Parrique (2020b)

• The Coronavirus and Modern Malthusians (Andrade, Merion West, 03/10/2020)

• Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth? (Löwy, Climate And Capitalism, 08/10/2020)
• Reply: Ecosocialism versus degrowth: a false dilemma (D’Alisa, Undisciplined Environments, 09/02/2021)

• Coup de griffe contre l’écologie de la décroissance (Denis Payre, Europe 1, 02/10/2020)

• Noam Chomsky’s Green New Deal (Pollin, Vox, 21/09/2020)
• Reply: A response to Pollin and Chomsky: we need a green new deal without growth (Hickel, jasonhickel.org, 02/11/2020)

• Quelle croissance demain ? (Jean-Marc Jancovici versus Xavier Ragot, Les Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence, 03/07/2020

• To Be or Not to Be: Is the European Degrowth Movement Courting an Identity Crisis? (Brian Czech, Steady State Herald, 01/07/2020)
• Reply: Is degrowth about bringing down GDP? (Crelis Rammelt, personal blog, 03/07/2020)

• Economic degrowth advocated by Greens’ radical wing would bring carnage and human misery (Paul, Irish Times, 19/06/2020)

• Applying coronavirus-style problem solving to climate change (Hyde, Merion West, 06/05/2020)

• Shutting down growth not the only solution to tackling climate change (Harford, Business Live, 03/05/2020)

• The ‘degrowth’ crowd have produced a slam dunk of wrongness (Wiseman, Capx, 12/05/2020)

• The Reactionary Nature of Degrowth (Hypnotransgirl, Medium, May 2020)

• Misère de la décroissance (Nicolas Bouzou, L’Express, 03/05/2020)
• Reply: Réponse à Nicolas Bouzou: Décroissance n’est pas récession (Timothée Parrique, personal blog, 02/12/2020); Décroissance de la misère, en réponse à Nicolas Bouzou (Jérôme Vautrin, Maison Commune de la Décroissance, 20/05/2020)

• (Still) Against Degrowth (Barthold, Forbes, 29/04/2020). Reply: Constructive criticism of degrowth is NOT support for growth (Sharma & Cabana, Degrowth.info, 15/06/2020)

• Don’t Misunderstand Earth Day’s Successes (Mcaffee, Wired, 22/04/2020)

• The European Green Deal is Not Fit For Purpose (Tadzio Müller vs. Franziska Brantner, Intelligence Squared, 16/04/2020)

• Beware the Left’s Rotten and Dangerous ‘Degrowth’ Movement (Moore, CNSNews, 15/04/2020)

• The coronavirus crisis reveals the misery of ‘degrowth’ (McAleenan, The Spectator, 27/03/2020)

• Why “De-growth” Shouldn’t Scare Businesses (Roulet & Bothello, Harvard Business Review, 14/02/2020)
• Reply: Why degrowth should scare business (Nesterova et al., Degrowth.info, 26/03/2020)

• Degrowth Toward a Steady State Economy: Unifying Non-Growth Movements for Political Impact (Brian Czech & Riccardo Mastini, Steady State Herald, 05/02/2020)  
• Reply: Degrowth? A Response to Brian Czech and Riccardo Mastini (Guy Dauncey, Personal blog, 05/02/2020)

• Is less more … or is more less? Scaling the political ecologies of the future (Paul Robbins, Political Geography, January 2020)
• Reply: More is more: Scaling political ecology within limits to growth (Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Political Geography, January 2020)
• Reply back: Revolutionary humility: Response to Gómez-Baggethun (Paul Robbins, Political Geography, January 2020)
• Reply back: Limits, ecomodernism and degrowth (Giorgos Kallis, Political Geography, March 2021)
• Reply: Neither more nor less, but enough: Towards a modest political ecology of the future (Mary Lawhon et al., Political Geography, 26/03/2021)
• Reply: Beyond limits and scarcity: Feminist and decolonial contributions to degrowth (Lyla Mehta & Wendy Harcourt, Political Geography, 15/05/2021)
• Reply: Labor, energy, and ecosocialist futures (Sam Bliss, Political Geography, 27/05/2021)

• Why Can’t Politics Fix Climate Change? (Liegey versus Tucker, Brain Bar, 04/09/2019)

• A Response to Giorgios Kallis’ Notions of Socialism and Growth (David Schwartzman & Salvatore Engel-di Mauro, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 04/09/2019)

• Degrowth fetishists, just be honest: you would make people poorer to fight climate change (Paul, The Irish Times, 16/08/2019)
• Reply: ‘Degrowth’ and the climate crisis (Ryan, The Irish Times, 02/09/2019)

• The degrowth delusion (Phillips, Open Democracy, 30/08/2019)
• Replies: Is the Degrowth Movement Delusional? (Gwynne, DegrowthUK, 01/09/2019); In defence of degrowth (Grainger, Open Democracy, 05/09/2019); Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward (Foramitti et al., Open Democracy, 14/09/2019); Degrowth and the Green New Deal (Dale, The Ecologist, 28/10/2019); We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate (Carson, November 2019); Why De growth is Essential: A Rejection of Left Ecomodernists Phillips, Sharzer, Bastini, and Parenti (Trainer, Resilience, 17/10/2019); Growing pain: the delusion of boundless economic growth (Ian Christie, Ben Gallant, Simon Mair, Open Democracy, 26/09/2019).

• The World Really Is Getting Richer as Poor Countries Catch Up (Noah Smith, Bloomberg, 07/03/2020)
• Reply: A response to Noah Smith about global poverty (Jason Hickel, Jasonhickel.org, 06/08/2019)

• Ecosocialism: Dystopian and Scientific (Huber, Socialist Forum, Winter 2019)
• Reply: Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing (Kallis, Uneven Earth, 26/04/2019)

• Should we pursue boundless economic growth? (Hickel versus Browne, Prospect Magazine, 12/06/2019)

• Degrowth versus Green New Deal: Response to Juliet Schor and Andrew Jorgenson (Pollin, Review of Radical Political Economics, 14/05/2019)

• Beyond the Limits of Nature: A Social-ecological Perspective on Degrowth as a Political Ideology (Finley, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2018)

• “Degrowth” vs. Other Types of Growth: Labeling Affects Emotions but Not Attitudes (Drews & Reese, Environmental Communication, May 2018)

• Degrowth vs. the Green New Deal (Pollin, New Left Review, July-August 2018)
• Reply: Degrowth: a defence (Burton & Somerville, New Left Review, January-February 2019)

• Is the world really getting poorer? (Pinker, Why evolution is true, 31/01/2019)
• Reply: A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty (Hickel, jasonhickel.org, 04/02/2019)

• The Secret of Eternal Growth (Liebreich, IFT, 29/10/2018)
• Replies: How the light gets in (Jackson, CUSP, 04/11/2018); The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking (Dietz, Resilience, 07/11/2018)

• Capital, Economic Growth, and Socio-Ecological Crisis: A Critique of De-Growth (Liodakis, International Critical Thought, January 2018)

• Beyond the Limits of Nature: A Social-ecological Perspective on Degrowth as a Political Ideology (Finley, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2018)
• Reply: Motivated by scarcity and thus economic, Chapter 7: Controversies (Parrique, PhD thesis, 16/12/2019)

• The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal world (Milanovic, personal blog, 18/11/2017). Reply: A response to Branko Milanovic (Hickel, jasonhickel.org, 27/10/2020)

• “Degrowth” is not enough (Kroll, World Future Council Working Paper, 2017).

• Socialism without growth (Kallis, Capitalism Nature Socialism, October 2017)
• Reply: From Provocation to Challenge: Degrowth, Capitalism and the Prospect of “Socialism without Growth”: A Commentary on Giorgios Kallis (Pineault, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 12/04/2018)
• Reply: Capitalism, Socialism, Degrowth: A Rejoinder (Kallis, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 11/01/2019)

• A-growth or Degrowth? (van den Bergh versus Kallis, Youtube, 11/02/2017)

• Wicked Dilemmas of Scale and Complexity in the Politics of Degrowth (Kish & Quilley, Ecological Economics, 2017)
• Reply: Nasty, brutish, and short? The cosmopolitan critique, Chapter 7: Controversies (Parrique, PhD thesis, 16/12/2019)

• Degrowth Is Punk as Fuck (Vansintjan & Bliss, Common Dreams, 09/12/2016)
• Reply: Is being “punk as f*ck” really where it’s at? (Hopkins, Transition Network, 15/12/2016)

• Coping with the Horizontal Hitch: The ‘Con-Formism’ of the Degrowth Alternative (Romano, Environmental Values, October 2016)

• Degrowth: A “missile word” that backfires (Drews & Reese, Ecological Economics, June 2016)

• Outgrowing the twin simplifications of growth and degrowth, part 1, part 2, part 3 (Stirling, STEPS, 23/02/2016)
• Reply: Why we need degrowth (Kallis, STEPS, 29/02/2016)

• Why degrowth has outgrown its own name (Raworth, kateraworth.com, 01/12/2015)
• Reply: Has ‘Degrowth’ Outgrown its Own Name (Kallis, Commons Transition, 23/02/2016)

• Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts (Phillips, Zero Books, 30/10/2015)

• The miserable degrowth: of the Westerners (Pavese, self-published, 2013)

• Degrowth or Regrowth? (Whitehead, Environmental Values, April 2013)

• A Critique of Degrowth and its Politics (Schwartzman, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 10/02/2012)

• System Innovation and a New ‘Great Transformation’: Re-embedding Economic Life in the Context of ‘De-Growth’ (Quilley, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 19/11/2012). And also: De-Growth Is Not a Liberal Agenda: Relocalisation and the Limits to Low Energy Cosmopolitanism (Quilley, Environmental Values, April 2013)

• Degrowth? How About Some ‘‘De-alienation’’? (Brownhill et al., Capitalism Nature Socialism, 10/02/2012)

• Degrowth, American Style: No Impact Man and Bourgeois Primitivism (Correia, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 12/02/2012)

• Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem (Foster, Monthly Review, 01/01/2011)

• De-growth – is not enough (Trainer, Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2010)

• Degrowth without Conscience? (Harribey, Revue du MAUSS, 2009)