Enough! are committed to commissioning and curating high quality content around our climate reality, alternative ways of economic organising, degrowth and deep adaptation.
Here are some links below to some original content that reflects ideas and conversations we find interesting.
DEGROWTH IN SCOTLAND PODCAST
Looking for the Degrowth in Scotland Podcast? You can find it here.
CODE RED AND THE BLUE ZONE
As we (un)settle into 2022, the Enough! collective are reflecting on the profound lessons we are learning from the pandemic, the critical problems that were exposed through COP26 and the ongoing crisis of the British State: and asking what it means for those working in resistance and struggle.There is no single story that defines what COP26 was. Inside the blue zone, there was...
Freedom is an Attitude: Land, Craft, and Rebellion in The Highlands
Affordable access to secure, decent housing was difficult enough for many before the pandemic. Afterwards, it’s even worse. Buyers fleeing urban environments for an ‘improved quality of life’ have created a particularly overheated property market in the Highlands and Islands. Rural areas already suffering from depopulation and chronic housing shortages for locals, especially young people, are at risk of becoming even more stratified. An...
Education for Transformation: Rethinking education in a time of ecological and social crisis
It is only by mainlining the adoption of degrowth education that Scotland can begin to move to systems of educational practice that begin to address the multiple emergencies we face, writes Mark Langdon, member of the newly established Anti-Capitalist Education Network. Illustration by Andy Arthur.There is a great quote by Bill Shankly (the famous Scottish manager of Liverpool FC) who said, “Football isn’t a...
Wasted Opportunity: Decoupling Social Mobility from Resource Consumption
Kate Chambers on the class divisions and social inequality exposed by the pandemic, and the environmental imperative to decouple social mobility from growth and resource consumption.During the global pandemic, Naomi Klein asked the newly furloughed classes, those of us who could afford the luxury of isolation, the ones framed in opposition to ‘key workers’:“What are we if not essential? Are we being kept like...
Landmark: a climate beacon from a coastal community
David Blair, a woodsman and climate activist, built a 20-metre-long and 6-metre-high ark as a monument to climate breakdown and the extinction crisis near Tighnabruaich, Argyll. Rhyddian Knight interviews David about the process of guerrilla building in a coastal community, and public art as a life raft in an unraveling climate.Fresh rainfall shimmers on the aspen below, there's a break in the weather and...