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…Anyway, my recommendation is that those of us not already living at the margins *voluntarily* downsize. And out of that comes the strong probability of less resentment.
Here’s the very wonderful @danmcquillan talking to @parismarx about #decomputing, a kind of #degrowth
"In the time of the polycrisis the average human contribution to the world has to change from negative to positive. We need to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and restore biodiversity and depleted soil. It is clear that removing all the harm people are doing to nature is not enough. We need to actively fix things. The total contribution of the people to the world has to be positive."
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-23/how-to-live-sustainably-in-an-unsustainable-world/
#Sustainability #DeGrowth #Community #Climate #Economy #PolyCrisis
Upstream: Slow Down or Die w/ Timothée Parrique
Episode webpage: https://sites.libsyn.com/435210/slow-down-or-die-w-timothe-parrique
🌿 What if the economy was in the hands of the community?
Instead of shareholders far away, we put local community, well-being, ownership and collaboration at the center.
📚 Read the first explainer on the community economy - an alternative growing now.
🎨 littlestudio.ink
🔗 https://www.commonsnetwork.org/2025/04/23/launch-of-explainer-series-community-economy/
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Searchable, zoomable, draggable digital maps became the thing. And two decades later more than a billion questions are asked of them every month. Questions that rely upon satellites put into space on rockets built with fossil fuels that can’t go on.
Some maps haven’t changed at all. GDP is a map of financial growth, or the lack of it. A map that’s imaginary because it ignores the landscape it sits within…
…3/3
As our economic solid ground slips away, dataviz of ice loss maps the data we’re now swimming in. Swimming or drowning?
There are no shortage of maps to places we cannot go, and to places we’ll not want to go. And too few of where we might like to. Such are the contours of our lives.
This week’s https://en.writes.casa/en theme is “Maps to nowhere”.
My #degrowth surveying submission follows…
There are now 15 articles in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
Prospects for Degrowth – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/
There are now 15 articles in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
Prospects for Degrowth – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/
Une vision intéressante à refiler aux dubitatifs qui disent « mis à part le capitalisme, il y a quoi ? ». Au final sous le nom d’écosocialisme il parle de décroissance sans (trop) en mentionner le nom.
Il y aura certainement à critiquer dans les détails, peut-être un point de vue américain qui parle de services publics et de transports en commun comme un idéal utopique et pas comme une réalité pour des millions de gens dans le monde entier.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IBbUdTcWD50
#décroissance #degrowth #écosocialisme #ecosocialism #utopia
Das nennt sich Externalisierung. Mit #degrowth kämen wir dahin, aber von Links bis Rechts sind alle dagegen. Außer ein paar Leuten von der Grünen Jugend, die sind aber nicht auf Mastodon, oder?
'It is high time to stop pretending - and claiming - degrowth is one thing, one huge all-encompassing framework that will fix the world. Instead, let’s focus on what it is that degrowth brings that the rest of political programs have missed so far: the ideology of growth, in all its socio-cultural, economic, material and political iterations, is the curse of our time. It is the most blatant expression of capitalism in the neoliberal globalised age, rooted so deeply into the political and cultural hegemony of our societies that it goes unnoticed, and is taken for granted, even by many of the most radical struggles. Centering growth provides a sharp tool to dismantle intersecting systems of oppression by targeting the core mechanism of capital accumulation.'
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth
'It is high time to stop pretending - and claiming - degrowth is one thing, one huge all-encompassing framework that will fix the world. Instead, let’s focus on what it is that degrowth brings that the rest of political programs have missed so far: the ideology of growth, in all its socio-cultural, economic, material and political iterations, is the curse of our time. It is the most blatant expression of capitalism in the neoliberal globalised age, rooted so deeply into the political and cultural hegemony of our societies that it goes unnoticed, and is taken for granted, even by many of the most radical struggles. Centering growth provides a sharp tool to dismantle intersecting systems of oppression by targeting the core mechanism of capital accumulation.'
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth
…My dad’s generation were trained on a form of resentment called Empire and ended up having to have a 6-year long resentment battle that killed his brother and many millions of others. It ended with exhaustion, which we called victory, and at the end things were smaller and excess was lower.
And there was the possibility of less resentment. For a bit
…Anyway, my recommendation is that those of us not already living at the margins *voluntarily* downsize. And out of that comes the strong probability of less resentment.
Here’s the very wonderful @danmcquillan talking to @parismarx about #decomputing, a kind of #degrowth
GOOD NEWS: For the first time in history, RENEWABLE ENERGY has overtaken COAL in global electricity production.
Solar and wind are finally outpacing fossil fuels. This is a TURNING POINT for the planet and for all of us.
@greenpeace renewables are a step in the right direction. But can we be more honest?
Virtually every solar panel and wind turbine has been made *with* coal, and will be for some time.
We have to start somewhere but if we continue to never talk about and confront demand management we’ll continue going nowhere or, at best, somewhere less bad not remotely fast enough
Hello Mastodon! Time for a proper #introduction.
I'm Shaun, a translator for the solidarity economy.
• Languages: FR/ES/IT/PT/CA > EN
• Focus: Cooperative finance, governance & social theory.
• The Twist: Ex-corporate finance analyst, now translating for the commons.
You can see my work and my new focus here:
https://rootandbranch.online
#translation #SocialEconomy #SolidarityEconomy #cooperatives #anarchism #sociology #degrowth #finance
Hello Mastodon! Time for a proper #introduction.
I'm Shaun, a translator for the solidarity economy.
• Languages: FR/ES/IT/PT/CA > EN
• Focus: Cooperative finance, governance & social theory.
• The Twist: Ex-corporate finance analyst, now translating for the commons.
You can see my work and my new focus here:
https://rootandbranch.online
#translation #SocialEconomy #SolidarityEconomy #cooperatives #anarchism #sociology #degrowth #finance
“The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs is due to warn”
So naturally, its launch has been delayed and it seems likely it will be buried, never to see the light of day
#uk #labour #climate #nature #naturecollapse #degrowth #starmer
https://halo.nu/@theguardian_climate_crisis/115339406987609388
"...one notable policy initiative from the world body was not discussed by world leaders when it should have been. UN secretary-general António Guterres has put together a high-level group of specialists to propose new indicators for human and planetary prosperity that go ‘Beyond GDP’."
A #Nature journal editorial:
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03144-y
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