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#degrowth

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Synapsenkitzler 🌻

"Mir geht es im Wesentlichen darum, zu erkennen, dass Kapitalismus Knappheit schafft, und Entschleunigung mehr Sicherheit schafft. Und nur mit Kollektiven und Graswurzelgruppen wird Transformation nicht funktionieren. Es wäre wichtig, dass der Staat Wohnraum, Nahrung, oder Mobilität als essentielles, entkommerzialisiertes Gemeingut reguliert."
taz.de/Philosoph-ueber-Wege-au
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Kohei Saito
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Philosoph über Wege aus der Klimakrise: „Wir können kein weiteres Wachstum dulden“Kohei Saito sieht die Welt am Abgrund des Klimakollapses. Nur ein auf Degrowth ausgerichteter Kriegskommunismus könne wieder in bessere Zeiten führen.
#kapitalismus#degrowth
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DoomsdaysCW

I suppose that's one way to curb our addiction to goods that were made cheaply in China? #Degrowth by #TradeWars? However, it WILL hurt American business, and a lot of the small ones won't survive. Will #Trump and fiends blame #GeorgeSoros when constituents of red states storm republicans' offices with torches and pitchforks? We'll see...

Trump's China tariff shocks US importers. One CEO calls it 'end of days'

By Paul Wiseman, April 12, 2025

Excerpt: "It might at least be the end of an era of inexpensive consumer goods in America. For four decades, and especially since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, Americans have relied on Chinese factories for everything from smartphones to Christmas ornaments."

apnews.com/article/trump-tarif

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Lyla Mehta

Biology Lessons In Degrowth by
George Tsakraklides

‘The best type of degrowth is practiced as a pre-emptive measure at a time of health and abundance, not when it is too late, to ensure that maximum resource is conserved for the difficult times ahead.’

Biology Lessons In Degrowth

#Degrowth #Biology #Economics #Growth

georgetsakraklides.substack.co

The George Tsakraklides View · Biology Lessons In DegrowthBy George Tsakraklides
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rooftopjaxx

@witchescauldron
OK, you post on this stuff almost as frequently as a clock chimes, more often than the cockerel crows. We'll bite seeing as it's full moon and allegedly the best time for sowing seeds.
• Where are your audience, who are your #sheeple? Most will be blithely hopping in and out of the various walled gardens, so how are they to discover, or be persuaded to, the joys of the #OpenWeb; that it's the (non-cancerous) #growth (aka #PostGrowth / #Degrowth) they're truly looking for? How are they to be converted into disciples and evangelists?
° From the opposite POV, what sort of #silo are you going to build for your composting needs. The sort of open skip that other people will opportunistically fill up rapidly with all sorts of shit and trash? And will you be relying on the rakes, forks and shovels of a huge team of mods? How will they be onboarded? Or a pay-what-you-can-or-will model where people can post all their shit until moved on?
• And with respect to your pitch for the #OMN, just as inevitably, as the Esther Dysons of this word can never be unheard saying, "Does it even scale?"

Would merrily go off on further tangents on the Peertube/Youtube dilemmas, what is to be done with an anarcho-silo like Kolektiva, and so on, but hey there's other nettles to be scythed. Does it all go into the mix and get broken down into some lovely fluffy and friable rich humus in the end?

<wildcat emoji>
#compost #shitposting

cc @MediaActivist

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Climate Jenny 2.1

It was half a year ago, but finally found where I got the idea that we can all live on the planet without wrecking it AND have access to a washing machine. #degrowth

—a healthy diet (EAT-Lancet) 2500 cal/day
—100 L of water/person/day for drinking, cooking, hygiene
—electricity for 16 h/day, incl. one high-power appliance, e.g. washing machine (0·7 kWh/capita/day)
—housing: living area 15m2
—transportation: up to 4500 passenger-km per year climatejustice.social/@breadan

Climate Justice SocialBread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social)More on that vital report which describes a very narrow path to a potentially survivable future... ________________________________ All of humanity could share a prosperous equitable future, but the space for development is rapidly shrinking under pressure from a wealthy minority of ultra-consumers, a groundbreaking study has shown. The new paper is a 62-page “thought experiment” by an international team of scientists that seeks to map out how the world’s 7.9 billion people could remain within safe planetary boundaries while accessing necessary levels of food, water, energy, shelter and transport. It then projects how this may change by 2050, when the population is likely to be 9.7 billion people. Growing environmental degradation and climate instability have pushed the Earth beyond a series of safe planetary boundaries, say the authors, but it still remains possible to carve out a “safe and just space” that would enable everyone to thrive. That utopian outcome would depend on a radical transformation of global politics, economics, and society to ensure a fairer distribution of resources, a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, and the widespread adoption of low-carbon, sustainable technologies and lifestyles, it said. The scale of the required change will alarm many governments, acknowledged one of the lead authors. “It won’t be immediately welcomed. To some extent, it is frightening, but it shows that there is still a space for people and other species,” said Joyeeta Gupta, a professor of environment and development at the University of Amsterdam. Under our current highly unequal, fossil-fuel intensive social and environmental conditions, it is now impossible for all humans to live healthy lives within a “safe and just corridor.” That finding is underscored by previous studies that show that seven of the eight planetary boundaries have already been breached. The authors said the current global situation of worsening inequality and rising nationalist politics may not seem conducive to achieving the just and safe plan laid out, but governments can change and so can public opinion – particularly at a time of intensifying climate stress. ________________________________ FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/consumerism-and-the-climate-crisis-threaten-equitable-future-for-humanity-report-says #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth
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Eric Maugendre

"Usually when a #recession is in the offing, government bond prices rise as investors look to a ‘safe haven’ from a stock market crash. But this time, bond prices and the dollar rate are also diving – as fears of rising inflation and worries about the security of holding dollar assets take over. The fall in the stock and bond markets are presaging the big fall in production and employment in the US and elsewhere".
thenextrecession.wordpress.com 🧵

Michael Roberts Blog · Trump’s slumpToday, President Donald Trump implemented his new range of tariffs on US imports called reciprocal tariffs.  In addition to those announced last Wednesday (Liberation day), Trump included an extra …
#economy#degrowth#tariffs
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marie verdeil

BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4

→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.

→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

🕰 18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion

📌 Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels

(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez

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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid

a Poster features the 3 volume chronoloigcal series of low-tech magazine squeezed by wooden clamp, illustrating the principle of compression we applied with the book.
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Climate Jenny 2.1

@afewbugs I never used an electric toothbrush until 2020, when I realized that it might not be safe to visit the dentist again any time soon. Trade-offs.

I once heard a credible person on a #degrowth podcast argue that there is enough wealth in the world for *everyone* to have access to a washing machine. I need to look that up again.

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Fernando Racimo

How did the @ScientistRebellion movement emerge and spread so quickly around the world? My new book, Science in Resistance (out in October with UC Press) documents the evolution of the SR movement over the past 5 years. Combining personal stories, interviews with scientist-activists, and insights from research on direct action and academia, I explore the challenges scientists face when taking a stand for climate and ecological justice.

Half of the proceeds will go to SR and allied climate justice groups.

ucpress.edu/books/science-in-r

Cover of book "Science in Resistance" including author Fernando Racimo and an image of scientists engaging in civil disobedience at the steps of the Spanish parliament.
#ClimateJustice#ClimateChange#Activism
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Bread and Circuses

If large-scale action is going to take place quickly enough to stave off the worst damages of ecosystem breakdown, it will have to start at the top. We need total system change!

End capitalism. End colonialism. End imperialism. Break up the large nation-states. Commence degrowth.

Barring all that, which admittedly seems unlikely to happen, then it will be up to individuals and communities to make collective grassroots changes that might allow most of them to survive.

Either way, it's time to act.

Meme with a raised fist. Text says: "System change, not climate change."
#Environment#Climate#ClimateChange
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