Sahra Kress is a committee member of Degrowth Aotearoa NZ and comes to this conversation about degrowth drawing passionately from her position as a midwife, deeply concerned about the future of the children she delivers.
Sahra has spent years working at the interface of social, cultural, and environmental complexity. Her work includes 18 years of Lead Maternity Practice, regular emergency skills teaching in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea and leading a research study on family planning in the Solomon Islands.
Unable to continue flying due to the obvious environmental impacts, she felt her work needed to focus locally and expand from protecting mothers and their children to advocating for nature and collective wellbeing within ecological limits. In this conversation, Sahra argues passionately for the benefits of Degrowth and the need to rediscover what it means to truly lead a meaningful life – going far beyond our materialistic 21st-century thinking.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Sahra’s fascinating background and her experience midwifing in Aotearoa and overseas
- Degrowth Aotearoa NZ (DANZ)
- Degrowth 101 – definitions, common misconceptions, and the concept of throughput
- Shifting mindsets and societal values for systemic change
- The concepts and goals of DANZ
- Degrowth community action and fostering a collectivism mindset
- Changes required in industrialised nations vs developing nations
- Getting degrowth into the national conversation
- The upcoming DANZ conference
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