@jknodlseder @PeterF @W_Lucht @teledyn

#Degrowth therefore also implies that poorer states must be included in the phase of systemic changes.
Both, as objects to be considered in planning, and as actors and planners who sort things out at their end.

I don't like communicating degrowth as a 2-phase approach where rich nations begin and poor nations catch up when they can.

A #StrategyOfSufficiency is the same. It can't start in rich nations only, and poor nations catch up 20 years later.

If we end fast fashion, as is necessary, and part of sufficiency, Bangladesh families and the government will experience a blow to their income. (And Moody's and Blackrock will react as in 2020 described above, the pandemic. And #IMF and #Worldbank impose austerity measures.)

A project plan therefor foresees and cushions such blows to remote societies, rich or poor. We, our tech civilisation, depends on Bangladesh, Brazil, Belize and Bejing staying stable at least during the transformation phase to CO2zero.

@jknodlseder @PeterF @W_Lucht @teledyn

Also, in capitalist economics, the growth paradigm is unqualified, apart from monetary profits.

Degrowth alludes to the many disruptive changes that need to happen in how society and her systems are organised around these unqualified profits.
Think retirement funds and how Blackrock's AI Aladin invests the money of these funds purely based on prospective dividends. If Aladin were trained to suddenly remove that money from fossil fuel companies or aviation industry, as is necessary, it creates turmoil in all sorts of societal areas.

Controlled degrowth forces Aladin to do the necessary, or rather: shuts down Aladin and Blackrock altogether, while foreseeing and cushioning the blows to society during this disruptive but necessary change.

Or think rating companies like #Moody who de-valued states in 2020 DUE to the #pandemic-induced expected economic downturn.
So these states had to borrow money at higher interest rates than before the pandemic, at a time when they urgently needed a safety net = money from "investors" like #Blackrock.

Think #IMF and #Worldbank, and how they had the audacity to impose new austerity measures in Argentina and elsewhere, also in 2020, also in light of the expected economic downturn.

This is how our societies are organised. And it has to change. Lest each climate-related blow to a society will add to its brittleness, aided and abetted by Blackrock, Moody, and IMF.

The term sufficiency can't describe these system-level, top-down operations on the very heart of the organism.
Sufficiency is the perspective of the "consumer", bottom-up.
In part, the term is therefore perpetuating the atomistic philosophy of neoliberalism.

The term, for its bottom-up perspective, can't encompass the required changes in the "multi-organ" setup.

For the described reasons, among others, I prefer #Degrowth .
But I can put my protest sign next to someone with one saying #StrategyOfSufficiency . No questions asked.

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Genug Klimaschutz wär auch ne Strategie. 😁 Freu mich aufs Lesen!
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