Someone trying to promote Degrowth in her local community. Did survey of 100 local people:
1. What qualities do you value in yourself or others?
2. Do you feel these are prevalent in our society today?
3. What do envisage life would be like if in 30 years time we all practiced these qualities?
4. What do you think could be done bring those values back?
Q1: honesty, kindness, patience
Q2: No, these values are not prevalent today.
Q3 & Q4: People want to try and bring back these values.
1/2
People all over world know that this civilization is rotten, corrupt an doomed. They instinctively know that we face a moral crisis of values. But they feel trapped by a whole range of things, not least the convenience and ease of corrupt lifestyles. Big Tech and Big Consumer feeds off the worst of us. Big Tech thinks our base instincts will always triumph over our good nature.
One step at a time, we must break away from the Growth Death Cult. Resistance is slowing down, being kind.
2/2
The very first step is recognizing the options made for us we are made to choose from.
Option A boil and poison the planet with the global economy, using fossil fuels
Option B boil and poison the planet with global economy using renewables
It’s not the energy source;” it’s the economy stupid”
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @gerrymcgovern
There's a lot said about increasing the use of renewables, and that's a good thing.
But, humans being human and stuck in the capitalist mindset, we're going to consume more and more and still more.
And unlike Malthus's postulate, we're going to take a majority of species with us.
Maybe, if the marmalade moron manages to precipitate the world war he seems to be trying for, enforced degrowth will follow from the ashes.
Or, we could follow Luigi Mangione's lead and start eliminating CEOs?
Gerry McGovern
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