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> In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm.. The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller... finite natural resources could not support ever-increasing consumption, and warned of likely ecological overshoot and societal collapse.. by the middle of the twenty-first century.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/club-of-rome-report-sustainable-wellbeing-five-shifts-by-jayati-ghosh-2022-07
#JayatiGosh on #LimitsOfGrowth and #Earth4All, sounds like #NaomiKlein 2014 and #Castoriadis 1981
Achieving Earth for All | by Jayati Ghosh - Project Syndicate

Jayati Ghosh describes the five major economic and social transformations required to achieve sustainable well-being.

Project Syndicate
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> .. #prosperity has been purchased since 1945 (and already beforehand, certainly) at the price of an irreversible destruction of the environment. The famous modern-day "economy" is in reality a fantastic waste of the capital accumulated by the biosphere in the course of three billion years, a wastefulness that is accelerating every day... the ecological nightmare,..the acceleration of global warming
https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1863-1988-bae2-18e346352643
#Castoriadis #CorneliusCastoriadis #RisingTideOfInsignificancy
Earth4All Changes

A comment about Portugal's standard of living from Cornelius Castoriadis keeps coming to mind while reading Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything, Amitav G...

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> In 2022, Project Drawdown, which compares the effectiveness of different measures to curb climate change, showed that educating girls and securing women's voluntary right to high-quality family planning together could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by 68.9 gigatonnes by 2050, making this one of the most powerful solutions to climate change.
https://populationmatters.org/womens-rights
#HumanRights #WomensRights #GlobalWarming #ClimateChaos
Should keep this in mind from Jayati Ghosh's article on #Earth4All
Women's Rights

Women across the globe continue to suffer from discrimination and unequal rights. Female empowerment is crucial to solving both humanitarian and environmental problems.