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There is an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism, and economic tensions.

A set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors, such as industry and mining, to education and health.

If these and other measures are taken the incomes of 89% of the world’s population would double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C (3.6F) over the preindustrial average.

This vision provides a positive alternative to the grim projections from far-right techno extractivists, nationalists and billionaires who claim the future will inevitably bring more fossil fuels, climate disruption and inequality.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival

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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

The Guardian

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Petra van Cronenburg 15h ago

@gclef This is what brings me #hope. We already have solutions, now we can try to live them locally and demand them on political level.
At the moment, the backlash to fascist death cults may seem to be overwhelming, but the number of people who want a positive change grows from day to day. I see politicians thinking about #taxTheRich who would never had this idea before. But we must become louder for the good!

#solarpunkSunday #change #activism #DemocracyMatters #climate #environment

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Raindrops and Roses 13h ago

@gclef @Guillotine_Jones

Yeah but there's this though. It should be illegal for anyone to have this much money and not be taxed at 100%.

https://mastodon.social/@raindrops_and_roses/116754656047949757

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Timo 12h ago

@raindrops_and_roses @gclef @Guillotine_Jones It will be tough to get the billionaires to comply. The point of this attempted world wide takeover by the wealthy Epstein class is to ensure they never have to pay taxes again. Everything else is a bonus for them. They believe they are beyond borders. Billionaires without borders.

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Raindrops and Roses 12h ago

@timo21 @gclef @Guillotine_Jones

There are still some good people around. Not the politicians but the bureaucrats. There's gotta be a way. I have to be honest I've been feeling pretty low since the whole SpaceX thing.

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Timo 10h ago

@raindrops_and_roses @gclef @Guillotine_Jones Bureaucrats are just our neighbors who have a job. But here is something that alarmed me immediately this morning: "Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion, including debt. "

https://apnews.com/article/fox-roku-tubi-streaming-824089dbe16631fade634becdb164c94

Fox strikes a $22B deal to buy Roku, aiming to supercharge its streaming reach

Fox Corp. is buying streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion. The deal will give Fox access to the Roku Channel, first-party data and more than 100 million global streaming households. Fox is a media giant that includes sports, news and entertainment content as well as Tubi.

AP News

@gclef Oh, YES!

@gclef It is scary how effective the defeatism they spread truly is. Things are bad, yes, but enormous amounts of positive benefits could happen if the population, as a whole, would just stop letting the bad stuff continue. They really have a lot of people literally believing these are end times and there is nothing anyone can do about it, so they may just as well let it happen.