Tot just els he començat a llegir i son analisis de fons de primera categoria. La mena de llibres que haurien de llegir els governants i legisladors des de fa 4 dècades.
-> Menys és més
-> Sense transició
#decreixement #degrowth
#crisiclimatica #crisienergetica
#noanembe #entraaexamen
Julia Steinberger: "Mit dem Wachstum ist das wie mit einem Bärenbaby. Es sieht niedlich aus. Aber das Problem ist die Bärenmutter. Die reinkommt, dir auf den Kopf haut und dich frisst."
Deshalb, Vorsicht beim Wachstum. Es frisst uns früher oder später auf.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/115510-001-A/koennen-wir-die-wirtschaft-schrumpfen/
Aus der Reihe 42. Können wir die Wirtschaft schrumpfen?
#arte #Wirtschaft #Degrowth
Wirtschaftswachstum ist notwendig, damit es uns allen gut geht – denken wir. Aber was, wenn dieses Wachstum mehr Schaden anrichtet, als es nützt? Wächst die Wirtschaft weiter wie bisher, nehmen auch Zerstörung und Ungleichheit zu. Könnte unsere Wirtschaft auch anders organisiert sein und sogar schrumpfen? Weniger ist mehr, sozusagen. Kann das gutgehen?
It was an honor to be interviewed by @neil_selwyn for the #Education #Technology #Society #podcast he runs on #Critical #EdTech.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/episodes/18914799-ed-tech-as-climate-criminal
It was about this research thread I've been pursuing for a while on Higher Ed's complicity in the excesses of the #tech sector. I have a position paper in the pipeline with an Irish Journal on EdTech, not super clear when that will be out. The provocation is: "EdTech as Climate Criminal".
Meanwhile, this was only possible thanks to the amazing work and research by loads of brilliant folx, many of who are right here on #mastodon and #lurk.
Huge thank you to @neil_selwyn @ketan @titipi @Aepasek @rra @l03s @320x200 @jasonkoebler @parismarx @decentral1se @alcstrt @djoerd @olivia @praxeology @latentspace @danmcquillan @gerrymcgovern + so many more contributors to the #permacomputing and #degrowth ideas and all my colleagues at the #climate #justice #universities #union #CJUU @index
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The environmental harms associated with our tech use are becoming increasingly apparent ... so how should the ed-tech community be responding? Colm O’Neill (South East Technological University) talks about the need to rethink ed-tech in light...
"Capitalism...is the economic manifestation of the Windigo mentality. Like a malignant process...it must keep expanding or collapse. It cannot recognize enough. Every gain becomes a platform for further gain...Every frontier, whether a rainforest, a public institution, or even the human nervous system, becomes a new zone for enclosure & monetization."
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-26/our-civilizations-disease-has-a-name-windigo/
#Capitalism #Economy #PolyCrisis #Climate #Sustainability #DeGrowth #Localism #WesternCivilization #Exploitation
@bestforbritain.org We also need to move away from growth as the primary economic goal or we're going to hit an environmental wall very soon.
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
…Yesterday I listened to the BBC’s Simon Jack give Blackrock CEO, Larry Fink, an effectively unchallenged platform for half an hour. Fink’s vision is deranged. Among other things he wants pension funds to bet LARGE on AI. It is pure accelerationism off a Seneca cliff.
We *can* listen instead to people prepared to think carefully and differently
#degrowth
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