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#degrowth

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Jonathan Schofield

@MattOrsagh Nice post.

Fwiw here is my current relationship to #degrowth mastodon.social/@urlyman/11414

MastodonJonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)…Now I’ll accept that notions of #degrowth have to face up to the political improbability of being selected and, probably and more seriously, thermodynamics itself https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112500670860562086 but we certainly have to *try*, and as with all cultural endeavours, whether it can *work* is perhaps less important than the direction of travel it takes us in. Personally, I’d rather we soften the rain of blows coming to us than slam into a hard stop at > 183,000 TWh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution
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Bread and Circuses

Here we are. It's DegrowThursday again. 💚

Every week on this day I turn my focus toward the most important topic of all. Because if we are to have any hope of maintaining some semblance of a healthy human society going forward, our world must quickly and decisively commit to #degrowth.

We're talking real solutions here! Real answers to the many systemic problems that plague us and threaten our very extinction.

Now, I know how unlikely it is that these solutions will be adopted by our present leadership. And I know how challenging they will be to achieve. I'm under no illusion that any of this will be easy.

But — if we don't know where we want to go, we'll never get there.

So today, I'll provide two resources for learning about degrowth. The first is simpler and more basic, while also offering a more hopeful and positive outlook. The second is a darker vision, presenting additional detail about the daunting challenges we face and the many hard steps that lie ahead of us. I hope you'll read both, or I hope you'll read at least one of them.

That's my intro. 🧵1/3 The next two parts will follow soon...

An illustration of a man with angry eyebrows in a business suit who carries a briefcase as he runs upward on a grid-patterned slope... and a happy man in shorts and a green tee shirt running down into a garden on the other side.
#Economics#Science#Environment
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Pandanus

Hell, even #prepping in this context - complete with it’s bunkers, blunderbusses and baked beans - is the very soul of pollyannish ignorance of reality.

Yes, I know that my retreat to tend this little patch of forest, which will fail, is precisely that - a retreat. At least I’m no longer a positive #denialist .

I live in the last scene of the movie Brazil, but we all do, some of us are merely more aware of our life of fantasy.

#Finally#environment#degrowth
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Pandanus

“I know it is considered de rigueur to strike an optimistic note when concluding discussions of this sort, but it is not easy, and may be dishonest.”

Finally! Or should that be #Finally .

For more than a decade - since I left Green campaigning due to severe burnout - I have been sick to the back teeth of the false optimism tacked on to all discussions of the #environment.

And yes I’m including all the airy fairy nonsense about #degrowth.
theconversation.com/the-end-of

The ConversationThe end of capitalism – or the end of civilisation? The choice could be that stark
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Simon Forman

Can we do better than "degrowth"?

Growth is what living systems do. When we say that economies "grow" we are employing a metaphor. 'Economies are like ecologies.'

The problem today is that economic "growth" is interfering with literal biological growth, eh? We have allowed a kind of inversion of meaning of the word growth.

We should reclaim the original biological meaning of healthy growth, eh?

#Degrowth
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Ms. Que Banh

I don't care how many protest events you've been to, I don't care if you've spent time at blockades & got arrested either, don't care how much content you post online about caring about the environment IF -> you still choose to fly all over Canada for leisurely trips & when not flying everywhere, you choose to drive all across BC & across Canada, you choose to overconsume material items & create more unnecessary waste - you are part of the problems & not really a part of the solutions.

The above listed selfish human behaviours are not what any serious environmentalist engages in. It's what performative folks engage in - they film themselves multiple times daily to get views online on multiple sites. Their self worth is tied to their online life/likes. I do not enjoy being around high hypocrisy, dishonest, self absorbed, irresponsible people like that & avoid them as much as possible. I tend to adhere tightly to my standards of association & don't let unsavory selfish folks stay around me. I oust them fast & have not felt bad about it. Being cautiously careful about the company we choose to keep around us is a pretty big part of our self care as well.

#Degrowth#Environmentalist#PerformativeFakes
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Ms. Que Banh

A beautiful moss covered Western red #cedar #tree - still unprotected.
Only a human, with a compromised & unwell soul, would be OK killing an elder tree this magnificent. Some things are just plain wrong.

These ancient old growth trees are essential to fighting accelerated #ClimateChange. #OldGrowth ecosystems in our coastal temperate rainforests supports much biodiverse lifeforms. The naturally moist environment helps to lower impacts of wildfires & other natural disasters that have increased as our governments continue to fund & enable more ecocidal projects.

Low-angle, wide shot of a tree trunk positioned vertically. The bark is reddish-brown, deeply textured with vertical grooves, and heavily populated with green moss. The composition emphasizes the tree's height and scale, creating a sense of upward momentum. Framing trees surround the main subject, with a diffused, white sky in the background.
#ThickTrunkTuesday#VancouverIsland#VanIsle
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