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This #podcast conversation on #degrowth and geopolitics is better than I expected, really very good. I learned new things.
> Novara Media: Downstream: Infinite Growth Will Lead to Collapse w/ Jason Hickel
Episode webpage: https://podcast.novaramedia.com/2025/09/downstream-infinite-growth-will-lead-to-collapse-w-jason-hickel/
…The Pakistan situation is of course full of many other state actors, but the UK should own its pivotal role and dial down the utter bullshit it spouts.
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The 1850 visual above is from the excellent 2018 animated visualisation entitled “A brief history of CO2 emissions” by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (run by folks inc @rahmstorf).
Here is its visualisation for our current moment. The columns of waste show clearly where the liability lies
…Swallowing this is uncomfortable. The answers lie somewhere in becoming content with swallowing less
I sometimes get asked if there is room for ambition in a #degrowth world?
My answer: absolutely – just not in the endless pursuit of personal wealth.
In what then?
The philosophy of transcendentals has one answer. Focus instead on the universal values of:
Truth –> #science and #education
Goodness –> #politics and ethics
Beauty –> #art
In all of these activities, there is almost no limit to how far you can follow your ambition, while still remaining within planetary limits.
I sometimes get asked if there is room for ambition in a #degrowth world?
My answer: absolutely – just not in the endless pursuit of personal wealth.
In what then?
The philosophy of transcendentals has one answer. Focus instead on the universal values of:
Truth –> #science and #education
Goodness –> #politics and ethics
Beauty –> #art
In all of these activities, there is almost no limit to how far you can follow your ambition, while still remaining within planetary limits.
Scientific and philosophically illiterate piece from the Executive Chair of ESRC. On this they wouldn't have funded Tim Jackson's research programme at CUSP. Hilariously the image looks like an advert for #degrowth
Scientific and philosophically illiterate piece from the Executive Chair of ESRC. On this they wouldn't have funded Tim Jackson's research programme at CUSP. Hilariously the image looks like an advert for #degrowth
I keep coming back to the point I heard Tim Garrett make below. So much of our politics is obsessed with illusions of control. The focus on immigration seems to me just one such thing.
#degrowth is probably not possible with intention at scale, but it’s what we need and all storms break eventually
New review: Slow Down or Die is a spirited and well-structured defence of degrowth that deserves to be read by proponents and critics alike.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/08/15/book-review-slow-down-or-die-the-economics-of-degrowth/
#Books#BookReview#Bookstodon#Scicomm#Economics#Degrowth @timparrique @bookstodon @IDN @UCPH_Degrowth @degrowthuk @ecosurrealism
It's obviously insane that we have organised our economies in such a way that politicians encourage people to spend extravagantly during an extinction event. Make every day Buy Nothing Day. Read a library book, take a long walk, mend your socks. Be frugal, be ascetic, strive not to consume. You are not responsible for heating up "the market".
It's obviously insane that we have organised our economies in such a way that politicians encourage people to spend extravagantly during an extinction event. Make every day Buy Nothing Day. Read a library book, take a long walk, mend your socks. Be frugal, be ascetic, strive not to consume. You are not responsible for heating up "the market".
Nachhaltigkeit im Betrieb:
Umwelt- und Klimaschutz am Arbeitsplatz
"(...) Wenn man versucht, die Verbrennung von Kohle, Öl und Erdgas durch erneuerbare Energien zu ersetzen, dann ergibt sich ein riesiger Bedarf, der bisher nicht gedeckt werden kann. (...)
Daher stellt sich eher die Frage, ob die bisherige Wirtschaftsweise, welche auf #Raubbau an natürlichen Rohstoffen (in Fortführung der kolonialen Ausplünderung) beruht in diesem Maße weitergefüht werden kann – oder ob eine Verringerung der Produktion und Weiterverarbeitung samt ihrer weltweiten Transportwege sozial-ökologisch gestaltet werden kann.
Die Diskussion über Post-Wachstum ( #degrowth) und Bedürfnisökonomie hinterfragt jedoch nicht nur die Wirtschaftsweise, sondern auch die kapitalistischen Eigentumsverhältnisse. Eine nachhaltige Umgestaltung (#Transformation) der industriellen Produktion und der sozialen Reproduktion im Sinne einer freiheitlich-solidarischen #Selbstverwaltung aller Menschen steht daher zu Debatte..."
Außerdem: Praktische Möglichkeiten zur ökologischen Umgestaltung, z.B. in den Bereichen Transport, Wasser, Klima und Biodiversität.
Ganzer Artikel (auch als PDF):
https://asnkoeln.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/nachhaltigkeit-im-betrieb/
#Arbeitskampf#Transformation#Konversion#SozialeOekologie#Anarchosyndikalismus#Nachhaltigkeit#DirekteAktionen
Wettbewerb und Konkurrenz sind out. Kooperation ist in.
Ich arbeite mit dieser Arbeit gerade einige Lücken in meinem Wissensschatz auf
Es wurde 2023 Publiziert betrachtet aber einen Zeitraum ab 1990 bis jetzt.
Ist unter CC BY
und kann man hier runterladen anschauen.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5354-0/konviviale-technik/
Finland's laudable "climate neutrality 2035" is based on the planning that in that year, Finland's forests will take up the very same amount of remaining fossil CO2 emissions: 20Mt/a.
This of course lightens considerably the requirement for fossil reduction policies.
Now, inexplicably, Finland's natural sink degraded steadily since 2015...
And so much so that by 2018, Finland's forest became a CO2 source. Essentially undoing all efforts since 1990 to reduce fossil emissions. By 2023, Finland's total emissions relative to 1990 not only didn't fall, they rose by 7.8% !!
Don't prematurely yell "Climate Change!!!!!"
It's wrong in this case.
Finland's forest sink degraded because of neoliberal deregulation!
Since 2015, forest owners no longer need to be member of a state- and science-based forest union. Instead, they can leave management decisions 100% to logging companies.
And they do.
And logging companies base decisions on profits.
That's the reason.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20162862
#neoliberalism #CapitalismKills #capitalism #degrowth #ClimateChange
Which appliance could you live without and have the least impact on your standard of living?
New review: Slow Down or Die is a spirited and well-structured defence of degrowth that deserves to be read by proponents and critics alike.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/08/15/book-review-slow-down-or-die-the-economics-of-degrowth/
#Books#BookReview#Bookstodon#Scicomm#Economics#Degrowth @timparrique @bookstodon @IDN @UCPH_Degrowth @degrowthuk @ecosurrealism
Relevant as I'm laying the last hands to my review of Parrique's Slow Down or Die - upcoming podcast miniseries on Herman Daly
Anaemic growth figures are out. Questions that #r4today have not asked and I presume no other mainstream channel will either:
What is the minimum level of growth that the current system needs to remain viable on its own narrow terms?
What happens when we consistently fail to meet it?
Why are we not restructuring to something that can last longer?
Trumpism and recession are not the only ways degrowth gets misapplied. For some reason unknown to me, Indian news outlets have started using it to describe market activity.
For example, from this week:
- https://www.deccanherald.com/business/job-cuts-tariff-uncertainties-drag-retail-auto-sales-by-4-3-in-july-3671166
- https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/power/indias-power-demand-rises-by-2-4-in-july-crisil/123236303
- https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/cabinet-approves-700-mw-hydro-electric-project-in-arunachal-pradesh-for-rs-8146-crore-996267
- https://www.greaterkashmir.com/business/electricity-demand-grows-in-july-after-2-months-of-degrowth/
Weird. I'm intensely curious from a linguistic perspective how this came about.
Fantastic to see Hans Stegeman of Triodos Bank also calling the @TheAtlantic article out; "𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐲."
We shouldn't abandon a good name just because people misuse it, but imho it's not a good name.
Yes, I've read the arguments from Giorgos Kallis and Erin Remblance on why degrowth is a good name. I disagree, I'm with Raworth on this one: https://systemicalternatives.org/2017/09/01/has-degrowth-outgrown-its-own-name/
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