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Jorge Camacho
j_camachor
If you think of degrowth as a kind of “social technology” — i.e. a “technology” that aims to reduce energy and material throughput by radically changing cultures of consumption —
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Timothée Parrique
timparrique
Here is a thread to summarise the "Degrowth: Socialism without growth" paper I wrote with @g_kallis. https://braveneweurope.com/timothee-parrique-giorgos-kallis-degrowth-socialism-without-growth#sdfootnote1sym/THREAD 1/ Claim 1:
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Robin Monotti
robinmonotti
People who claim to care about the environment are telling 7.8 billion of us to use & discard plastic face masks (which take 500 years to decompose) every 2 hours
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Tom Smith
SmithTGeo
There are a lot of important arguments made here by @Matthuber78 such as the overemphasis on consumption/footprint accounting, and underemphasis on production/work; The prominence of technocracy/policy wonks; Not seeing workers
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JefimVogel
JefimVogel
Great to hear @Matthuber78 on @jacobinmag arguing that environment + class must be thought and tackled together!Fully agreed - and one of the key goals and principles of Degrowth.But then,
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Seaver Wang
wang_seaver
Speaking for myself, I regularly read writing from the degrowth side.When degrowthers get criticized, they claim critics are misrepresenting degrowth."That's not degrowth! Degrowth is more planned, just, equitable than that!"B
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Jason Hickel
jasonhickel
The UN has published a new report on "Harmony with Nature", which outlines the remarkable steps that some countries and cities have been taking away from growth-based economics. It's an
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tadzio_mueller
MuellerTadzio
Until 2050 we'll likely see "a #supercycle in investments in 'clean' energy infrastructure, 'clean' transportation & everything that's required for the '#green' transition."There's so much b
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Ben See
ClimateBen
What if I told you the Paris Agreement on climate change relies on technologies that scientists know DO NOT and WILL NOT WORK?[Thread] Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems like Carbon
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JefimVogel
JefimVogel
Despite COVID, emissions are still way too high. To limit global warming to 1.5 C, we need to *rapidly*(i) decarbonise energy use AND(ii) reduce energy use AND(iii) decarbonise land use
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Timothée Parrique
timparrique
Want to understand what "degrowth" is? Here are 10 definitions from the literature. 1/ “a planned reduction of excess energy and resource use in rich nations to bring the economy
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Will Saunders 🌱
GoodWillStudios
I've heard a few stories of businesses who are experimenting with a 4-day working week, and the results have been overwhelmingly positive... And if lockdown has taught us anything, it's
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Jason Hickel
jasonhickel
Many scientists believe that the rise of novel viruses like SARS-CoV-2 is being driven by rising resource extraction. If that's the case, we will likely see many more pandemics in
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Bes D. Socialist
besf0rt
elon musk is not a climate change hero, to the contrary, the production of tesla cars destroys the environment and space x works with the us military, the largest polluting
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Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest
JKSteinberger
Unpopular opinion: the emphasis on automation, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, and work-time reductions / work sharing in degrowth/steady state economics is causing confusion at a time when there is a
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The Gaian Way
GaianWay
.@Jonesieman of the @nytimes weighs in on @deepadaptation. Worth reading but.... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/style/climate-change-deep-adaptation.html#deepadaptation #ClimateCrisis But the last words of the article make me concerned:
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