The energetic metabolism of societies and the degrowth paradigm: analyzing biophysical constraints and realities

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Local currencies for purposive degrowth? A quality check of some proposals for changing money-as-usual (2013, background): “…revolves around the uncertainty about the temporal remove of the coming of enduring fossil fuel scarcities, paralleling the ongoing debate about whether proposals for statutory reductions in working time make sense in the autumn of the fossil fuel era (Kallis, 2013, Sorman and Giampietro, 2013).”
“Friday off”: Reducing Working Hours in Europe (2013, background): “climate change restrictions, then we will need to work more, much more actually, be it in paid or unpaid work [60].”
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability (2015, background): “The former draws centrally on Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s bio-economics, which relies on ecological science to challenge orthodox economics (Sorman and Giampietro 2013).”
Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals (2017, background): “In this article, the three ecological economics policy objectives are used to understand how some degrowth proposals are capturing or proposing a deeper socio-ecological understanding (Spash, 2013).”
Research On Degrowth (2018, unknown): “However, & Giampietro (77) claim that if EROI declines, human labor will have to increase, not decrease.”