Jennifer and Jacques talk about the need to de-grow the economy and change our fundamental way of life to save ourselves and the planet.

The capitalist system has us on a downward spiral of mass exploitation and extraction, with the 'global south' supporting our privileged way of life through cheap labour and the devastation of local ecologies. The presenters look to the later Karl Marx (largely unpublished) for inspiration about more communal ways of organising ourselves that are socially and environmentally sustainable.

References

Kohei Sato 2024, Slow down: How degrowth communism can save the earth, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Raj Patel & Jason Moore 2017, A history of the world in seven cheap things: A guide to capitalism, nature and the future of the planet, Berkely: University of California Press,

Poem: For the land of my birth India, by Nandini Sen Mehra

International Organisation for Migration (IOM), https://www.migrationdataportal.org/resource/decade-documenting-migrant-deaths-data-analysis-and-reflection-deaths-during-migration