The very first tweets of the opening talks by @EU_Commission and EU Parliament presidents at #BeyondGrowth conference show how politicians are still very on board with #growth and didn't (or refuse to) understand that the all point of a conference called #BeyondGrowth is to move away from growth, not trying to fix it.
btw, the conference is livestreamed here: https://www.beyond-growth-2023.eu/lecture/opening-plenary-limits-to-growth/
Now talking Sandrine Dixson-Declève, who finally is clarifying that the Club of Rome is not calling for a different growth, but for a different economic model tout court.
I really loved the passage: 'the only technology that can fix climate change is a time machine that can brings us back 50 years to allow us to make different decisions'
'People don't want #EconomicGrowth, they want #EconomicStability'
Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Club of Rome) open plenary talk at #BeyondGrowth
'Our economic system is fundamentally undemocratic' and 'it fails both ecologically and socially'
@jasonhickel
'Unemployment is an artificial #scarcity and it can be demolished'
@jasonhickel
'This is not the time for timid responses, it's the time for courage'
Amazing closing words of hope by @jasonhickel
Adelaide Charlier just now: "two incompatible GPS systems"
also powerfully reminding us what the EU is all about - solidarity against destructive powers
"from dream to narrative to debate to policy" ❤️
Alx 🐈
Pauline von Hellermann