cop26 Archives ⋆ Enough!

The COP and Community Struggles in South Africa

LESS editor Svenja Meyerricks spoke to environmental justice activist and community organiser Nomalizo Xhoma in Johannesburg, South Africa, about her work and advocacy for solutions that centre the needs of vulnerable communities where the impact of climate change is acutely felt.When I first met Nomalizo in a German ecovillage we both were visiting, she...

Free States: Contested Territories, New Imaginaries

Territorial struggle and prefigurative politics were evident at the Pollok Free State in the 1990s, opening up new possibilities beyond protest. To mark the occasion of COP26 taking place in Glasgow, Pablo Routledge, Gehan Macleod and David Lees write how a new Govan Declaration of Independence – a Govan Free State at GalGael –...

Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red Zone

Hello world. Welcome to Glasgow. Welcome to Scotland. We are drawing on Glasgow’s radical past to inject hope and urgency into the moribund COP process.YOUR VISION OF our country may be an idealised one of lochs brimming with salmon and glens filled with deer, but in reality we’re a petro-chemical economy being held ransom...

The Degrowth Sessions: Planting an Economy for All

A series of teach-ins by the Centre for Human Ecology and Enough!We invite climate activists and all interested folk to this series of teach-ins which frame economic growth as a key driver of climate breakdown, and explore new models and narratives of degrowth and decolonisation for sustaining livelihoods on a finite planet. The for...

LESS #3 – Call for Contributions

We are currently seeking contributions to our upcoming issue LESS #3: Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red ZoneThe recent IPPC report signals the latest three-alarm warning for humanity and the biosphere. It's a red alert for the 'red zone'- those areas of our planet responsible for the most emissions, which are also now squarely...