Gerry McGovern

"Human activity has grown to challenge planetary limits, yet the official solution to any problem that arises is to grow more. Like fish unable to live anywhere but in water, our leaders find it hard to imagine any way of life outside the Growth paradigm. Production and consumption, income and expenditure define our lives."

https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/paradigm-instead-growth.html

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

In the effort to keep GDP growing, many products are made to be used only once, to go out of style, or to break after minimal use

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Show threadMarcoMar 2
@gerrymcgovern “More fun, less stuff” sounds great
Show threadgretchenMar 2
@flun1tr4z3p4m @gerrymcgovern That’s a motto I can get behind!
Show threadCM ThiedeMar 2

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Show threadPaul HealeyMar 2
@gerrymcgovern Billions will likely die before you get a sustainable ‘life paradigm’ defeating the growth of an unsustainable death paradigm! Starvation, disease, climate chaos, species extinction, pollution, authoritarian terror, ecosystems collapse and war are already growing exponentially. When will the inflection point of the population limit occur? Becoming #woke and rebelling against the fascist control of autonomous automation and information is a choice! #WokeOrDope #DopeCults #EcocideEmpire #UnustainableGrowth #TheLifeParadigm #FascistDeathCults #TheDeathParadigm #SustainableGrowth
Show threadJoanna Bryson, blatheringMar 2
@Dialectician @gerrymcgovern not sure the original intent, but more or less agree – we are already inflecting on population, but how gracefully we get through this period depends on everyone's actions. What we do matters.
Show threadGerry McGovernMar 2

@j2bryson
Some say concepts such as degrowth are too brutal. That we need marketing concepts such as "fun with less". And that we must promise abundant 'renewable' energy and lovely Green Transitions in valleys of overflowing 'green' growth

But the future, even if we make the very best choices, will be painful. And right now, as we are making the very worst choices possible, the future is bleak and horrible.

Ssh, none of that. Roll out the marketing and branding.

@Dialectician