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#degrowth

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Alberto Cottica

"As I stood on the stage of the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025, I experienced a feeling like the beginning of spring, when you throw the windows wide open and let warm air fill the room. The economics winter was over, for good."

The progress in economics is unmistakeable. For sure it won't be enough to make a better society, but it does give us a compass and a few new tools. Here's some reflection, after the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025.

istanbulinnovationdays.org/a-m

Istanbul Innovation Days · A Matter of Choice: reflecting on alternative economic models after the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025  - Istanbul Innovation Daysby Alberto Cottica. R&D Specialist – Digital, AI and Innovation Hub  Spring has arrived for economic alternatives  As I stood on the stage of the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025, I experienced a feeling like the beginning of spring, when you throw the windows wide open and let warm air fill the room. The economics winter […]
#economics#degrowth
anlomedad

Finland's laudable "climate neutrality 2035" is based on the planning that in that year, Finland's forests will take up the very same amount of remaining fossil CO2 emissions: 20Mt/a.
This of course lightens considerably the requirement for fossil reduction policies.

Now, inexplicably, Finland's natural sink degraded steadily since 2015...
And so much so that by 2018, Finland's forest became a CO2 source. Essentially undoing all efforts since 1990 to reduce fossil emissions. By 2023, Finland's total emissions relative to 1990 not only didn't fall, they rose by 7.8% !!

Don't prematurely yell "Climate Change!!!!!"
It's wrong in this case.

Finland's forest sink degraded because of neoliberal deregulation!
Since 2015, forest owners no longer need to be member of a state- and science-based forest union. Instead, they can leave management decisions 100% to logging companies.
And they do.
And logging companies base decisions on profits.
That's the reason.
yle.fi/a/74-20162862
#neoliberalism #CapitalismKills #capitalism #degrowth #ClimateChange

NotImpressed

#Socialism #degrowth

On "degrowth".
It's a long article, but I'll share anyway, in case you find it useful/interesting.
"Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation,"
"Degrowth research shows that we can improve social outcomes with substantially less energy use, less material use, and less aggregate output"

znetwork.org/znetarticle/degro

ZNetwork"Degrowth Is A Gateway Into Socialist Thought For The 21st Century"This conversation between JASON HICKEL, professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of
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Estelle Platini

‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
—Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

@psychology @philosophy

#tourism#nature#wilderness
Brad Rosenheim

I had a brief three post thread yesterday about #degrowth, and the third post got 0 boosts compared to 13 for the first. This level of interaction is interesting, because the post with no boosts talked about similarities between degrowth and what #MAGA and #MAHA (more specifically MAHA) have been preaching.

Maybe people were turned off by that. Those acronyms make us all defensive, don't they? But to change society, we will need to form important, if not tenuous, allyships with people that we may see as the enemy because of their past votes. Some of them are enemies, for sure. But some of them actually want degrowth and equity, and we need to find those people to succeed.

So, to me, this was the most important post of that thread, but it go no love, or at least much less love, than the opener.

climatejustice.social/@Brad_Ro

Climate Justice SocialBrad Rosenheim (@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social)What's interesting about this is that a lot in the #MAGA crowd want these same things. Think about the #MAHA movement, their infatuation with the 1950's... They don't emphasize the equity part, and many of them think it is unachievable equitably, or they simply are too racist to share with "others." But #degrowth can go from being divisive, radical, weird, to being a uniting force if we frame it correctly.
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Eric Maugendre

"When essential goods are privatized and expensive, people need more income than they would otherwise require to access them. To get it they are compelled to increase their labour in capitalist markets, working to produce new things that may not be needed (with increased energy use, resource use, and ecological pressure) simply to access things that clearly are needed, and which are quite often already there."

jasonhickel.org/blog/2023/3/18

Jason HickelUniversal public services: the power of decommodifying survival — Jason HickelOne of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. Capitalism relies on maintaining an artificial scarcity of essential goods and services (like housing, healthcare, transport, etc)
#decoupling#growth#emissions
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