An unregulated post-growth transition in the North can cause crises in the South: debt, inflation, unemployment. That’s the finding of a new paper by CUSP researchers Dario Leoni, Andrew Jackson and @ProfTimJackson. Their analysis from the PADME model reveal that financial transfers and global cooperation are essential to make it work internationally—ecological space isn’t enough.
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https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/paper-dl-postgrowth-north-south-divide/

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#Postgrowth #Degrowth #SystemDynamics #GlobalInequality #GrowthDependency

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“The Arithmetic of Global Predation...What the World Happiness Report 2026 Actually Measures”

The article reveals how dominant measures of happiness can conceal extraction, structural inequality, and global injustice.

Read the full article: https://qualitylifejungle.net/the-artithmetic-of-global-predation/

#PeopleOverProfit
#EconomicJustice
#GlobalInequality
#SocialJustice
#DecolonizeEconomics

The products we throw away don’t disappear.

They move.

Across borders, across economies, across inequalities.

This piece looks at the Right to Repair through a wider lens: not just consumer rights, but global responsibility.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/eu-right-to-repair-explained?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#EuropeanUnion
#EUPolicy
#RightToRepair
#CircularEconomy
#Sustainability
#ConsumerRights
#SystemsThinking
#GlobalInequality
#EUinPractice

The ultimate neoliberal “dreamworld” – on desert sand without water
Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling

* "The Dubai project requires demanding visitors and expats to not think too much about the suffering or question what goes on beyond the city’s borders. And how that city came to be built in the first place."

"The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/dubai-influencers-expats-denial-middle-east-crisis

* Living Well at Others' Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity, Stephan Lessenich, 2019, Polity Press >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=living-well-at-others-expense-the-hidden-costs-of-western-prosperity--9781509525621

#WesternProsperity #GlobalInequality #wealth #inequality #externalisation #mobility #Dubai #drylands #settlersociety #WilfulBlindness #CrumblingDreams #FossilFuels #oil #water #war #WarZone #ClimateCrisis

Tupac Shakur on War : ‘जंग के लिए पैसे हैं, गरीबों के लिए नहीं’ 30 साल बाद भी सच लगता है WAR Tension
#Tupac #GlobalInequality #TruthMatters #TupacShakur #RealityCheck #GlobalIss #Tupac #KeepYaHeadUp #WorldTruth #Inequality
Rapper Tupac Shakur on War - Tupac Shakur का 1993 का गाना ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ आज भी दुनिया की सच्चाई को दर्शाता है। क्या कुछ बदल पाया है 30 साल में? संगीत को केवल मनोरंजन नहीं, बल्कि समाज का आईना भी होता है। Rapper Tupac Shakur on War 1993 में अपने गीत…

https://vrnewslive.com/tupac-shakur-on-war-tension-country-fight-iran/

Calm is not always a sign that things are working.
Often, it’s a sign that the costs have been moved: into the future, into the margins, into lives we don’t see.

This essay explores borrowed calm: how modern systems maintain stability by postponing consequences, and why misreading that calm is becoming one of our most expensive mistakes.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/borrowed-calm-postponed-consequences?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#SystemsThinking #CivicIntelligence #Leadership #ClimateJustice #GlobalInequality