Alex / catileptic1d ago

"What many countries around the world are about to experience... is a period of rapid and involuntary decarbonisation. And that will necessarily mean rapid and involuntary degrowth.

Degrowth is a highly divisive term – and many will reject it. The main shortcoming of degrowth is the assumption that it will be in some way up to us to decide – a kind of lifestyle choice.

It won’t be; whether you like degrowth or hate it, the war on Iran makes it all but unavoidable"
https://open.substack.com/pub/reclaimedsystems/p/how-to-lose-an-empire-in-less-than

How to lose an empire in less than 4 weeks

Step 1: Make sure it's your empire. Step 2: Attack Iran.

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@catileptic

degrowth is such a wonderfully complicated, interesting, and necessary topic

forced degrowth of course will hit poorer countries harder unfortunately, and coupled with existing cost of living emergencies, this is going to be very bad for most people

the goal, if economies could intentionally move towards degrowth, (as you probably know) is called the "steady state economy"

this is a quick explainer i like about it

https://youtu.be/rAXPLfiHP2g

Mar 26 at 9:06amWeb