EMPOWERING CHANGEMAKERS

EMPOWERING CHANGEMAKERS

Degrowth, Learning to Live within Planetary Limits:


For our final 2023 Te Whanganui-a-Tara event we hosted a presentation and workshop exploring Degrowth and how we can learn to live within our planetary limits. Our amazing MC, Sharn Maree, was joined by a fantastic line up of speakers; Mike Joy, Sahra Kress and Rhonda Thomson. We finished off this event with a group kōrero facilitated by the wonderful Hannah Blumhardt.

Taking the Kaupapa Forward  

 

Personal Level

Find ways to reduce consumption that suits your personal circumstances. Some ideas are:

  • Drive and fly less

  • Try to avoid "buying new", wherever possible, and to get your everyday essentials (e.g. groceries) without packaging or in reusable packaging.

  • If you can, choose to buy/access your essentials from local businesses that centre degrowth/environmental practices in their business model.

 

It is also important to talk with friends and family about the environmental crisis and to raise others' awareness of real solutions.

 

 

 Collective/ Political Level

  • Vocally support land back for Māori and Te Tiriti-based constitutional transformation

  • Vocally support investment, infrastructure and policies that enable and increase public transport (within regions and between regions) and active modes of transport

  • Call for producer/corporate responsibility for pollution and environmental taxation (e.g. tax on resource usage)

  • Vote in local and central government elections

  • Ideally, give your vote to parties and candidates based on the quality of their policies to address inequality and environmental degradation, and to support redistribution and the mitigation of climate change and other environmental issues.

 

 

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