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Avoiding Day Zero: The Enkangala-Drakensbeg Strategic Water Source Area supplies Gauteng among other provinces. The authors argue that a proposed coal mine in Mabola in Mpumalanga will endanger critical water supplies. (Roger de la Harpe/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The lie of limitless economic progress

We need alternatives because unrestrained development is not compatible with life

Catherine Horsfield
Neil Overy

Firefighters monitor a backfire they lit to stop the spread of the catastrophic Dixie fire in California, United States. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

Economic growth is destroying the planet

Ecosocialism will build solidarity with people to establish food and water commons, carbon-free public transport and community-owned renewable energy

Michael Kwet
Tshiamo Malatji