In support of my poster, which reframes climate change as a consequence of accelerating civilizational throughput, I explored four key sources.<\/p>\n
First, Hickel (2020)<\/em> argues for planned degrowth<\/strong> \u2014 a reduction in material and energy throughput in high-income nations to restore ecological balance[1]<\/sup>. Most recently, Steffen et al. (2018)<\/em> warn of self-reinforcing Earth system feedbacks \u2014 a “Hothouse Earth”<\/strong> trajectory triggered by the momentum of human activity. They emphasize that avoiding tipping points requires deliberate slowing of socio-economic systems[4]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Together, these works strengthen my core argument: emissions are symptoms, not root causes. The root is the velocity and scale of civilization<\/strong>, which must be intentionally slowed through systemic strategies like degrowth.<\/p>\n In support of my poster, which reframes climate change as a consequence of accelerating civilizational throughput, I explored four key sources. First, Hickel (2020) argues for planned degrowth \u2014 a reduction in material and energy throughput in high-income nations to restore ecological balance[1]. Second, Wiedmann et al. (2020) identify affluence as the main driver ofContinue reading “Slowing Civilization to Stabilize Climate: Scientific Insights Supporting Degrowth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-category-set"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncertain2degrees.blogs.uni-hamburg.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSecond, Wiedmann et al. (2020)<\/em> identify affluence<\/strong> as the main driver of environmental pressure, reinforcing that GDP growth itself, not just emissions, must be addressed[2]<\/sup>.
\nThird, Parrique et al. (2019)<\/em> critically review the idea of decoupling<\/strong> economic growth from environmental impacts, concluding that it is not occurring at sufficient speed or scale[3]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n
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