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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space · 2d ago
Call it #degrowth , call it math, call it physics. There's only so much planet, and only so much our rivers, oceans, forests, and atmosphere can handle. Read @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green 's latest book. Read Ozzie Zehner's *Green Illusions*. Follow Cultural Survival. I'm not making this up, I wish I were. #climate 3/3
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social · Mar 26, 2026
Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity. So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine." Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth). Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet. Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future. #Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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@AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social · Jan 31, 2026

Wir haben hier ja einige #solarpunk s.

Thematisch sehr nah dran scheint mir #degrowth.

Mich würden Eure Meinungen dazu interessieren:

  • economic madness,
  • der einzige Weg nach vorn oder
  • just another craze?

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/104840-007-A/brauchen-wir-wirtschaftswachstum/

Wie steht ihr zu #Degrowth im Allgemeinen? Im Speziellen? Konkret?

Bitte wählt die Antwort mit der relativ größten Zustimmung

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@musevg@23.social · Jan 31, 2026
@kassander@norden.social @AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social Kurzer Einwurf von der Seitenlinie, weil ich gerade #Konsum im Kontext von #Degrowth lese: Wenn jemand tönt "Die Wähler wollen Wachstum" *), sagt er damit eigentlich "Die Leute wollen Konsum, möglichst viel und billig und unreguliert. Und wir lassen das zu, denn sonst wählen sie uns nicht" *) mein Gedächtnis sagt, das war #Kretschmann, aber ich finde keine Quelle :(
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Apr 18, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/fhefD5jW5gMiYEHt4kshhS 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️

Die Notwendigkeit eines radikalen Kurswechsels für die Zukunft unseres Planeten.

#environment #climate #taxtherich #climat #degrowth

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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · Apr 17, 2026
#Capitalists: Keep grinding! Never stop going hard! There's no limit to how much profits you can reap! Never sleep. #Degrowth people like me: Stop grinding yourself to death. Stop going hard. Start slowing down & relishing a more simple life. Invest in extra naps.
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@hipsauerkraut@social.vivaldi.net in climate · Apr 15, 2026
@silence7@slrpnk.net #degrowth and a radical reduction of #greenhouse gases is the only way.
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@wimiezwierzat@mastodon.com.pl · Mar 09, 2026
Eating ourselves out of industrial excess? Degrowth, multi-species conviviality and the micro-politics of cultured meat "To address the relationship between the crises of capitalist growth and democratic politics, this paper discusses the notions of degrowth and conviviality. Both concepts are often interpreted as making similar proposals in response to questions of environmental transformation. However, they bear on different strands of critique. While degrowth criticizes the momentum of capitalist accumulation, conviviality originates in the search for alternatives to the instrumental use of technologies in industrial societies. Although these two rationalities predominantly go hand in hand in the development of modern societies, they are sometimes in conflict and different strategies are required to deal with their consequences. Therefore, the differences between degrowth and conviviality should not be obscured. Instead of using the concepts in an ethical or moral fashion as normative claims directed at some diffuse agency of states, companies and the people, the paper argues for a thorough examination of issues and propositions to overcome the environmental crisis from the perspective of materialist science and technology studies. Since one key factor here is the level of global production and consumption of meat, this paper turns toward a controversial attempt to break new ground in meat production: the vision of artificially producing meat in the laboratory. Lab-grown, cultured meat provides a powerful case study for exploring political and democratic challenges of post-growth societies, all the more so as questions of animal welfare and interspecies conviviality are addressed as well. By taking a closer look at the role of animals in proposed solutions for degrowth and conviviality in meat production and consumption, the complementarity of such claims can be questioned, and a light can be shed on the inherent political implications of such technological innovations". https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1463499620981544 #Degrowth
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@NeuKelte__dup_60898@hear-me.social · Mar 07, 2026
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/global-economy-transformed-humanity-future-un-chief-antonio-guterres We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏 #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Mar 07, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/ur6Vke9SrgV2r69SMRupFy 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️

The foundational conflict of our era is between an infinite-growth economic model and the finite boundaries of a living planet.

#climate #taxtherich #climat #onu #degrowth

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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Mar 07, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/u9xjXBm3P3GnV8M5yvbpU3 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️

Die systemische Krise des Kapitalismus erfordert eine radikale Neuausrichtung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.

#climate #taxtherich #climat #onu #degrowth

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@feliwilcke@kirche.social · Feb 02, 2026
@musevg@23.social Klar will ich Wachstum, aber an Zufriedenheit mit der Lebenssituation, an sozialer Sicherheit, Frieden und ähnlichen spinnerten Dingen. @kassander@norden.social @AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social #Konsum #Degrowth #Kretschmann
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