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Vladislav Kaim 🇲🇩🇪🇺
VladislavKaim
*THREAD*/1The tweets by @BrankoMilan on the degrowth illusion among Western activists inspired me to write this very personal thread. As a person born after the dissolution of the USSR, I
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Jorge Camacho
j_camachor
A controversial —strong, but weakly held— opinion:The established discourse that for centuries presented economic growth as a panacea (and, thus, ruled the world by that principle), has spurred a counter-movement
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Nick Fitzpatrick
NickClimate
Hey @VladislavKaim, It's great to see that you are interested in discussing #degrowth, especially since you are advising @antonioguterres on behalf of all youth.However, its unfortunate you go to such
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Nick Fitzpatrick
NickClimate
Mapping Degrowth strategies onto a systemic theory of change & identifying priorities for action (1/8)What steps & roles are required to accelerate the decline of current system & speed up
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Jason Hickel
jasonhickel
This research is really inspiring. Scientists find that, when left alone, destroyed tropical forests can almost completely regenerate in only 66 years, and in some cases as little as 21.https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16512
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Matthias Schmelzer
MGSchmelzer
Interesting how in the last weeks #degrowth and the climate left has been increasingly criticized by neoliberals & the mainstream. Here the #neoliberal @Heritage foundation.Why? Are neoclassical economics and the
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Leigh Phillips
Leigh_Phillips
With Michael Moore embracing eco-austerity calls to cut the living standards of Western workers still further after 40 yrs of wage restraint, time to give my left critique of degrowth
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The Walrus
thewalrus
Stay tuned for a Twitter takeover from @brad_badelt, talking about his story:https://thewalrus.ca/is-a-four-day-work-week-the-secret-to-saving-the-planet/ Hey, @brad_badelt here. Pop quiz: What’s the bestselling environmental book of all
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Jason Hickel
jasonhickel
I want to take a minute to clarify something important about the degrowth position on climate change and emissions reductions. Here's a short thread that I hope will be helpful:
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Timothée Parrique
timparrique
Here is a new thread on #Degrowth and #Marxism, responding to this lecture by Olivia Rickson. Again, degrowth is gravely misrepresented, if understood at all. This is not a critique,
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Toon Vanheukelom
TVanheukelom
I wasn't convinced by the degrowth idea before, and I'm less so after reading this paper on alternative scenario's to green growth.https://twitter.com/cieplinski/status/1237079422307643393 I'm not a macro- or environmental economist,
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Zeke Hausfather
hausfath
Waxing poetic about deindustrialization and degrowth is largely done from a position of extreme privilege. Most of the 21 century's economic growth (and emissions if we don't decarbonize that growth)
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Eric Holthaus
EricHolthaus
Genuine, earnest tweet: I am super happy we're talking about degrowth right now.The status quo is broken beyond repair. That seems obvious. What comes next (and who "the economy" will
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Giorgos Kallis
g_kallis
On twitter we spend time in silly debates: is degrowth impoverishment, negative GDP, lockdown misery bla bla. But in our normal lives we are producing some pretty k.a. research. Here
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Branko Milanovic
BrankoMilan
There are two huge illusions that have complete disconnect w/ reality as lived by people and that feed two literatures.1) The idea that people will suddenly turn become altruistic and
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💧simon holmes à court 🕯
simonahac
quite amusing seeing all the RWNJs fawn over a michael moore* film that's anti-capitalism, advocates degrowth.* @MMFlint didn't make the film, he's 'just' the EP. if he'd had it fact
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