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Ten years Françoise’s junior, Maria Mies died on May 15, 2023, aged 92. Still too little known in France, the German sociologist had laid the foundations for a reflection that led her to theorize the “perspective of subsistence” as a horizon for total transformation. In an article published in Socialter on July 25, journalist Youness…

Part four of this interesting (as always) Reporterre dossier begins as follows: We need to go on a “belly strike” and put an end to “phallocratic rabbitry”, as ecofeminist activist Françoise d’Eaubonne put it with her usual verve in Le Féminisme ou la mort. That was in the 1970s. For example, Africa as a whole…

Madrid, December 2019. Climate activist Marie Kolo has come all the way from Madagascar to take part in the COP 25 World Climate Conference. A determined 31-year-old with her tongue firmly in her cheek, Marie Kolo had taken the liberty, a few days earlier, of criticizing Madagascar’s Minister of the Environment, Alexandre Georget, on Facebook….

The Earth’s circumference is 40,000 km, and all human ingenuity will never add a single metre more,” Françoise d’Eaubonne used to say. We live in a finite world. Yet Patriarchy and Capital blindly pursue infinite growth in production, exponential consumption and limitless demographics. The Meadows Report is 50 years old. Limits to Growth (its real…

An article from an Indonesian website, dated November 17, 2021: “Women, development and the environment”. Rough translation by Google robots. Jakarta – The debate on the environmental crisis continues to emerge at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, held from October 31 to November 12, 2021. In his speech on October 1,…