Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth

https://slrpnk.net/post/28741059

Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth - SLRPNK

Lemmy

1/ Gestern war ich beim #ScientistsResponsibilitySummit, einer von der DFG geförderten wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltung, die sich mit den Herausforderungen und Zumutungen unserer Zeit beschäftigt hat. Aufkommender Faschismus, Klimakatastrophe. Und Ansätze wie #Degrowth wurden besprochen.

https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsresponsibilitysummit/

Die ersten Vorträge habe ich verpasst, aber ich war dann bei Prof. Michael Brüggemann, Hamburg, der #FridaysForFuture und die #LetzteGeneration miteinander verglichen hat.

See the shocking degree of child wasting in the Global South!
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please!🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
See the shocking undernourishment in the Global South!We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please!🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
See the shocking under-five mortality in the Global South!
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please!🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

@dhuyvetter @AndyDearden @pluralistic to me the biggest value in this post is the reframing of these wicked problems and trying to get to the root cause. So while I know and love both #degrowth and #solarpunk, the former is too focused on the abstract capitalist system demanding growth and the latter on visions of green utopia but what I haven't yet seen in either is confronting the current power structures that prevent us from getting there.

Don't get hung up on too much my characterisations above, I guess my main point is that it's super useful for any movement to see one level deeper into the systems governing us to be able to direct the activist energy to the biggest leverage points. In this case to me it's understanding the drivers and effects of extreme inequality and then finding ways to fight it that could offer solutions to seemingly disconnected movements.