#Degrowth

Environment vs economic growth. AGAIN. What's neededed:- degrowth ppl eg @jasonhickel need to stop downplaying decoupling potential- green growth ppl eg @ramez need to accept decoupling is not happening fast
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In the spirit of my thread yesterday on sources about anarchism and the state, here are sources on energy, ecology, carbon, throughput, and so on. If you read any authors,
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We can keep flying if we just offset the emissions, right? No, because so-called carbon offsets pose many problems and in most cases do not compensate emissions - on the
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(THREAD)—‘DEGROWTH’—its, definition, its history, Common misunderstandings & slanders, its compatibility with other schools, & a specific point about the nature of consumption, ‘services’, growth, capitalist metrics. I
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So there is a kind of circular argument I want to expose. Neoclassical economists & neoliberal ideologues have successfully argued for a social consensus around economic growth on the basis
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This is a powerful new intervention: a climate mitigation scenario for staying under 1.5C that does not rely on speculative negative emissions technologies. Check it out:https://www.boell.de/en/2020/12/09/societal-transformation-scenario-st
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Our current model of “growth” is not actually growth, the unpriced externalities we are generating are self terminating us. In reality we are living in degrowth, a great stagnation &
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XR blockades the conservative press printers bc they disagree w The Sun et al’s stance on climate change. I disagree w XR’s anti-nuclear, degrowth, exaggerate-the-facts stance on climate change. Should
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I've spent months away from the television, radio, newspapers. No football, soaps, box sets (not that I was ever a fan) and therefore no conditioning. I needed to understand what
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So much economics (and thus political) discourse constructs the fossil fuel economy as a kind of good against which we measure the value of future generations. It strikes me that
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As far as I know, this person is an economist—they should know that GDP measures the volume of transactions, that welfare reducing marketization gets counted as GDP growth, & the
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Lately, I've been reflecting on teleological and non-teleological understandings of processes, and noticing how we have a sort of meaning-making impulse to recon a telos onto everything. There's something about
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Ok let's dig deeper into this theory, which is informed by the findings from the fieldwork I did for my book.https://twitter.com/RizomaSchool/status/1344287828667228161?s=20 In educated circles (that is, among college educated and
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Economists and politicians lean heavily on the promise of "green growth" as a last-ditch defense of capitalism. But is green growth possible? This year brought a lot of new research
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2020 ListEnding the year with a thread on the 20 articles, videos, reports that I’ve enjoyed the most on issues around health, cities, climate change, real estate and want to
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Lot of comment on RBI becoming Pro Growth & keeping Inflation in back ground. Few Points to ponder. - Inflation is being pushed on back burner globally. ECB moved from
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