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Jason Hickel
jasonhickel
This is remarkable: 170 Dutch academics put together a 5-point manifesto for economic change after the C19 crisis, building on #degrowth principles. It has gone viral in Dutch media. In
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man is human
EarthManat
To say yes and no in one sentence?No mention of pollution, water depletion.Instead praising the god of electrification.Which doesn't decarbonise at allThis is how #decarbonth looks likeThere is real degrowth:https://bit.ly/34wdoUd
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Stay Grounded Network
StayGroundedNet
#Airbus announces that by 2035 it plans to build hydrogen "zero-emission" aircraft.But #HydrogenPlanes are not the solution to the aviation industry's climate problem. Why? Thread. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep
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Paul Maidowski
_ppmv
Climate change as symptom not problem (open whether genotype or phenotype): may help to view the & the Degrowth question from this angle.The more clearly I've been
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Panos Roussos
panos_strather
By now, we all have read/seen dozens of analyses, videos (like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9yqWNIG8A) linking coronaviruses with: 1)Industrialization of farming (not 'domesticated' but *abused* animals), incl. excessive (mis)use of #an
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Leigh Phillips
Leigh_Phillips
Chinese GDP drop by 40% in up to April; a 30-50% drop in US GDP by summer. But all this, with all its horrendous socioeconomic outcomes, will still likely only
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Hat Bitch., Return Of The People's Reply-Guy
MASTERBLAST0ISE
Degrowth isn't synonymous with Malthusianism but I often think about how undervalued disabled people are in left spaces even if unintentionally so and it worries me. Tbh the least desirable
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Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction
JKSteinberger
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Congratulations, degrowth, we're now at the penultimate stage 3, apparently. That sure went fast.
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Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction
JKSteinberger
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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Ryan Katz-Rosene
ryankatzrosene
As someone who studies climate policy debates I find it a bit concerning to see what appears to be growing polarization on a number of issues which quite frankly would
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Dylan Bugden
bugdenomics
I watched the film "Planet of the Humans" this morning. It is awful. It scientifically illiterate, it is intellectually shallow, and relies on bogus environmental tropes like overpopulation (see below)
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Seaver Wang
wang_seaver
I will respectfully disagree with @TricksyRaccoon on the usefulness of this kind of degrowth too.I do appreciate Meg (and Kendra) spotlighting this aspect of the conversation though since the back
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man is human
EarthManat
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #UprootTheSystem #FaceTheClimateEmergency #FridaysForFuture #Renewables #ClimateStrike #Greenwashing #ExtinctionRebellionHow Billionaires with Greta Thunberg uproot the system, important thread 2 read:https://t
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man is human
EarthManat
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #UprootTheSystem #FaceTheClimateEmergency #FridaysForFuture #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Greenwashing #ExtinctionRebellionHow XR is doing "green" business and from whom it gets its money, all explain
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Matthias Schmelzer
MGSchmelzer
Heute gehen wir als Netzwerk Ökonomischer Wandel an die Öffentlichkeit.Unser Positionspapier skizziert Fluchtlinien für Systemwandel Commons ausweiten Märkte am Gemeinwohl ausrichten Staat umfassend demokratisieren#AndersWirtschaftenNOW 1/https://www
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Modes of Criticism
modescriticism
During the past months, inevitably, graphic designers' behaviour in relation to the pandemic is a recurrent discussion with students and colleagues. There's a general sense of déjà-vu (more precarity), confusion
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