Yesterday we co-hosted a workshop on #Agroecology at #IseeDegrowth25
A group of engaged participants contributed to envision relevant actions for different stakeholder groups on how to transition to a Degrowth scenario on food production by following Agroecology principles. Thanks to the SIANI research group and the #Alnarp Agroecology farm for inviting us to be part of this session!!!
Claudio: must press governments but it isn't enough. Show the government through personal action [but are they going to listen??]
#DegrowthOslo25 Livestream now.
https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream
Sizing sufficiency: Contested framings of scarcity and limits.
Inge Røpke first.
Long thread follows
Welcome to the joint 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and 11th International Degrowth Conference. It will take place in Oslo (Norway) from the 24th to 27th June 2025. The main theme is: "Building socially just postgrowth futures - linking theory and action".
Not much livetooting happening from #DegrowthOslo25 #IseeDegrowth25 so far, but @degrowthuk putting in an heroic effort.
Late last year, the acclaimed French economist Thomas Piketty, a best-selling author for his work centred on wealth and income gaps, hailed by the Left and spurned by the Right, gave a conference at the university of Toulouse, south-west France, when he was surprised by a question from a student. It concerned a complaint for domestic violence filed against him in 2009 by his former partner, then a socialist MP and later culture minister, Aurélie Filippetti. His response prompted Filippetti to lodge a new complaint, this time for defamation, which has had the effect of breaking a decade-long taboo among the French media and political circles. Lénaïg Bredoux reports.
But then suggests solution is a new kind of money, which is a category error in my (MB) view.
He's right that the key is unequal resource and energy transfer.
Now Alf Hornberg.
"Coming to our senses beyond the hubristic pretensions of green technology".
Jaspers: 'Axial Age' - Ancient Greece, India, China - first coined money - exchange value, distancing from the material world. Dualism of spirit and matter.
2nd axial age - believe in progress - again (Cartesian) dualistic.
When measured in money, "All trade is fair".
Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction, sacrifice of communities, over-consumption: by design peoples pushed back. It's systemic, driving inequality and climate collapse.
Those responsible have names.
#DegrowthOslo25 morning plenary on livestream: https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream shorltly.
"Confronting Inequalities in the Green Transition" with Piketty, Hornborg, Njoroge Njehû - chair Steinberger.
#Inequality #GreenTransition
And for the UK, see our proposals on redistribution in https://gettingreal.org.uk esp Appendix on tax.
Welcome to the joint 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and 11th International Degrowth Conference. It will take place in Oslo (Norway) from the 24th to 27th June 2025. The main theme is: "Building socially just postgrowth futures - linking theory and action".
Degrowth Malmö
DegrowthUK
Kjerstin Gjengedal