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'Electrifying our SUVs will very likely not be the way, rather we should move towards a mostly collective transportation system, especially in cities' (Photo: Lauren McKown)

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Matthias Schmelzer: 'Changing to an electric car isn't enough'

A smiling, slightly ascetic face appears on screen. It belongs to Matthias Schmelzer, a historian and economist at the University of Jena, a small town in Germany an hour's drive southwest of Leipzig.

He is an organiser, academic and author in the degrowth movement whose work seeks to transform our growth-obsessed society from within.

EUobserver sat down with Schmelzer to talk ab...

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

'Electrifying our SUVs will very likely not be the way, rather we should move towards a mostly collective transportation system, especially in cities' (Photo: Lauren McKown)

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

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