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#degrowth

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That Wyrd Girl

Hello! I forgot to make an intro post when I moved to this instance. Ope!

I am Nessie. For entertainment, I make messes and then try and figure out how to clean them up. Aka I’m an artist, haha.

I’m interested in lots of stuff! Stuff like this:

#Poorskills #Repurposing #Degrowth #ZeroWaste #SolarPunk #HopePunk #Gardening #ScratchCooking #SeedSaving #HouseKeeping #SimpleLiving #Dyslexia #ElderCare #Biking #SlowLiving #Drawing #PenAndInk #MixedMediaArt #AltText #DisabilityRights

And a bunch of other things that’ll pop up as I go along. Pleased to meet you all and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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Mark Burton

"They roll back environmental and social protections: pulling out of agreements on climate mitigation, desperately promoting a building boom, directing expenditure to the military, promoting non-solutions such as nuclear power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, all in the name of GDP growth, for they know no other god."

#degrowth#FalseSolutions#ElitePanic
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Mark Burton

"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to no avail, just making things worse. They try the old mantra “growth”, repeated endlessly, and given a priority above all else."

From my new article, Prospects for Degrowth 2025 – via @degrowthuk

degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/pros

First of a series on #ProspectsForDegrowth
#degrowth #polycrisis #politics

degrowthUK · Prospects for Degrowth 2025Mark H Burton1 These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move through 2025? Dark times: the current context Firs…
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J$

China’s choice to respond to tariff chaos by, on the one hand, increasing the effort to coöperate regionally and, on the other hand, impose export restrictions, particularly for rare resources difficult or imposdible to source elsewhere makes sense.

Seems #degrowth is now a hard reality. Collateral benefits, unintended but well due.

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Miss Gayle

"There are various non-mystical reasons why fossil fuels remain more profitable than renewables...Not all these things are necessarily set in stone for all time in such a way that it’s inconceivable renewables will ever compete with fossil fuels. But you’d expect an in-depth academic treatment of climate & energy futures to engage with them properly, rather than unfurling strange arguments about free energy & sunflowers."

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

Overshoot, meet undershoot Chris Smaje, originally published by Small Farm Future April 2, 2025 A lot of people have a peculiar horror for the idea of a lower energy and more local world, necessarily involving more people working the land – whereas the idea of living in a suburb and working in an office tends to get a free pass. I think there will be more of the former and less of the latter in the future whether we like it or not, but it’s a bit odd that our culture is so resistant to the possibility that the former might have its plus points. Teaser image credit: A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. By Scop Terre vivante – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146557065 "...We’re seriously undershooting the level of political rethinking needed via an overshot faith in techno-salvation. Malm and Carton’s term ‘bourgeois economics’ to describe mainstream economic orthodoxy is revealing in this respect. Implicitly, this sees the problem as merely the dominance of economic thought by a particular class perspective that can be overcome by more accurate scientific analysis. That’s a really old kind of social science thinking that I don’t think is at all equal to present problems, and in fact is a part of them – the slippage from the idea of scientific truth to the idea of a scientific understanding of human society that generates the correct political prescriptions for it."
#DeGrowth#Sustainability#Renewabkes
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