Caro S.May 25

Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender

"My own experience has taught me that we often cannot know, at the outset, what our work will make possible. I have been part of fights I did not expect to win, and I have seen them matter in ways I could not have predicted. [...] Some struggles do not succeed in the way we imagine, or on the timeline we want, but they still alter what people believe is possible, who they trust, what they know how to do, and what they are willing to try next." Kelly Hayes

https://organizingmythoughts.org/declining-invitations-to-surrender/

#Resistance #TheGoodWeDoMatters #ABetterWorldIsPossible

Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender

“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”

Organizing My Thoughts
DoomsdaysCWMar 29

So, my reason for participating / hosting #Hashtag events like #SolarPunkSunday and #FirstFridayArtWalk is to highlight other folks. Sure, I post some stuff as well. But the way I see it, like #WhatMagazineOnline, it's a communal experience and a way of #BuildingCommunity . Because... We sure as hell need to #UniteAgainstTheRight (and #Colonialism and #Capitalism), right now! We are running out of time, folks.

#ABetterWorldIsPossible #GiantLeap #GiantLeapScenario #Resistance #AntiImperialism #AntiCapitalism #AntiColonialism #Decolonize #Resist

Show threadDoomsdaysCWMar 26

Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.

So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."

Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).

Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.

Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.

#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap

Show threadJay-AbolishICE-DubMar 25

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

#WeSaveUs
#ABetterWorldIsPossible

DoomsdaysCWMar 22

For next week's #SolarPunkSunday I *hope* to finish up the #SolarPunk jobs list, and will tackle #NaturalHerbicides and #NaturalPesticides (because, pests...!) And, of course, whatever other SolarPunk-related topics that folks want to highlight. Thanks to everyone who participated!

#ABetterWorldIsPossible #GiantLeap #GiantLeapForward

Ｊｉｍ Ｈａｋｕ ☸Mar 2
I suppose the Spreeder bookmarklet working for free this whole time was too good to be true. #abetterworldispossible
Caro S.Feb 20

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced

"Clara Mattei is an author and professor of economics whose work explores how economic ideas become tools of power, shaping policy while masking the political decisions beneath.

Her new book, Escape from Capitalism, argues that many of the problems that we see as inevitable - poverty, unemployment, inflation - are built into the system and shored up by models and theories designed to convince us that there is no alternative.

On this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Mattei about whether there is an alternative to capitalism."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #democracy #ABetterWorldIsPossible #economics #inequality #Austerity

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced

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Stephen HayesFeb 20
#Cuba #LiftTheBlockade #Socialism is the free society, when it is not under siege by #imperialists. #ABetterWorldIsPossible. A better world is already here, if we would just let it be. m.youtube.com/watch?v=INRM...

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Everything you’ve been told about Cuba is a lie

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Stephen HayesJan 27
Another world actually existed and we were made to forget it. Do you remember reading about pneumatic trains? No. You don't. #ABetterWorldISpossible #SuppressedInventions A clean environment, sustainability and personal freedom require the end of capitalism. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BFrP...

They Ran Trains Without Coal i...
They Ran Trains Without Coal in 1870 — And That's Why The Compressed Air Technology Was Banned

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DoomsdaysCWNov 30, 2025
Alrighty then...! That was another great #SolarPunkSunday! A shout-out to @MaQuest , @BrambleBearGrrrauwling , @jblue , and everyone who used the hashtag and boosted posts! Next week, I hope to show off some #soap pics from today's #soapmaking session, and I'll plan on posting about #DIY #HouseholdCleaners, making #SuetCakes and other treats for our feathered friends, and also focus on #SolarPunk around the world! And of course, #RepairCafes, #LibraryOfThings, #Rewilding, and other related topics! Let's keep doing and sharing for #ABetterFuture! #ABetterWorldIsPossible !