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Economic history and social-ecological transformation • author of HEGEMONY OF GROWTH and THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH

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The critique of economic growth is as old as growth itself. And it’s not just about the more recent critique of GDP or about growth as a policy goal, but goes much deeper. How was growth criticized and by whom? Check out my new article @GlobalizationsJ 🧵
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How it started How it's going
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In 30 years of UN climate negotiations, eliminating the primary cause of global heating - fossil fuels - has never been mentioned in the decisions, not even in the COP27 in 2022. And these were the results.
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Can't wrap my head around the fact that three rich dudes flying into space in the midst of a climate emergency is covered more prominently (and favourably) in the news than the IPCC report. #DontLookUp
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The material dimensions of capitalism are staggering. In 2020, the amount of human-made mass exceeded for the first time the dry weight of all life on Earth. Its current increase corresponds to each person on the globe producing more than their body weight every week.
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New study finds that the average carbon footprint in the top 1% of emitters is more than 75-times higher than that in the bottom 50%. The top 10% are contributing almost half of all emitted CO2.
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As the second heat wave this summer hits Europe, don't forget: Our governments continue to protect, investing in and subsidize the fossil fuel industry that is causing this climate emergency. We need to stop them.
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"Unsere Regierungen sagen, sie würden alles tun, um den Klimawandel zu bekämpfen. Doch das stimmt nicht. Es ist höchste Zeit, dagegen aufzustehen." Sehr lesenswerter Weckruf.
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Fossil fuel companies “have not simply been lying to the public, they have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors should bring that crime to the public’s attention.” Paper accepted in Harvard Environmental Law Review
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Being a provocative term, #degrowth is often misinterpreted or misrepresented, even by many who share its objectives. After Starmer’s speech calling for ‘growth, growth, growth’, #degrowth is trending – a good time to discuss the most common misunderstandings. 🧵 based on book
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"A giant dump of unused fast fashion clothing in Chile's Atacama Desert is now clearly visible to satellites." The magnitude of irrational production for profit and planned obsolescence is hard to overstate.
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This is great archival work! It shows that French oil giant @TotalEnergies knew about climate change as early as 1971 (!) and since the 1980s engaged in strategies of denial and delay, coordinating their attack on science internationally.
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Big Oil is successfully manipulating the way we think about climate change. Instead of focusing on stopping the burning of fossil fuels, public attention revolves around individual carbon footprints or carbon sequestration. The red herring fallacy at work
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Everyone should see this graph from @OlufemiOTaiwo correlating climate change vulnerability and colonialism. "The colonizing parts of the world are now much less vulnerable to climate change than the regions they colonized." It's time for reparations.
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Here is Prof. Jason Hickel debunking green growth in front of the Dutch Parliament. "Decarbonization with growth is like trying to run down an escalator that is accelerating upwards."
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The academic publishing business, relying on publicly funded knowledge to extract profit, is insane. Elsevier, which publishes 25% of the world’s scientific papers, makes £2.9bn profit a year - with profit margins nearing 40%! Now, academics take action.
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Look what arrived today 🥳! Officially out in June @VersoBooks with Andrea Vetter and @a_vansi . Please contact us for review copies etc.
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When you hear about climate-related #heatwaves , #floods or #droughts , remember: In 2022 alone, five oil companies ⁠— ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies ⁠— more than doubled their profits to an all-time historic record of $200 billion.
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Carbon inequality is extreme, not only globally, but also within the EU. And it is increasing. There is no climate justice without capping income and wealth. 1.5-degree lifestyles require sufficiency and equity.
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Since 1990, the top 1% has been responsible for more emissions than half the world's population. Climate policies that do not directly address these excess emissions of the top 1% are not only ineffective, but entrench neocolonial inequalities. #degrowth
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New OECD report on tipping points should frighten everyone. “Recent state-of-the-art research shows that important tipping points are already ‘possible’ at current levels of warming and may become ‘likely’ within the Paris Agreement range of 1.5 to 2°C warming…”
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Protest works! A key European airport is banning private jets, only months after major direct actions at the airport.
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Let's turn the heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts into a call for more widespread, disobedient and effective climate action to end the fossil fuel industry responsible for these disasters.
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The carbon emissions of the richest 1 percent are more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity. We can't afford the super rich. Banner drop at today's climate justice rally in Berlin. (Photo: @alxaraya )
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This is an immensely important intervention. A new manifesto that critiques the "clean energy" transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South. Please read this key analysis and the demands ⬇️
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Just 1% of the global population is responsible for half of the emissions associated with flying. The rich and famous frequently use highly-polluting private aircraft for absurdly brief journeys. Just ban private jets #ClimateEmergency #DontLookUp
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Das ist doch nicht euer ernst - vier Monate ohne Bewährung für eine friedliche politische Aktion? "Die Staatsanwältin hatte 900 Euro Strafe verlangt. Von dem Urteil zeigte sich auch die Staatsanwaltschaft überrascht." #Gesinnungsurteil #LetztenGeneration
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Oxfam Inequality Report is out: ➡ 10 richest men doubled their wealth in the pandemic, while the incomes of 99% of people fell ➡️ Inequality contributes to death of 1 person every 4 seconds ➡️20 richest billionaires emit 8,000 times more carbon than 1 billion poorest
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While making record profits by destroying climate security for all, fossil capital dares to give this ridiculous advice?
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What's a good film to watch in a master course on degrowth, the climate crisis and alternative economics? All suggestions welcome
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Did you know that the @ClubOfRome , whose 1972 report Limits to Growth is still the most famous critique of economic growth, was "born in the corridors of the OECD", arguably the international organization most closely associated with the promotion of growth? History thread 1/
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Maybe people will listen when the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, Giorgio Parisi, says that we need to stop economic growth?! "GDP growth is in contrast with the fight against global warming."
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It's already 'hell on earth', as extreme heatwaves are testing the limits of human survival, but we are still discussing whether peaceful climate protest is legitimate.
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Existing climate mitigation scenarios ignore energy sufficiency in the Global North and thus perpetuate colonial inequalities
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"Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy." #ClimateJustice
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Is degrowth a neoliberal “politics of less” and ultimately against workers? These are the arguments in a new book by @Matthuber78 . Since we have a book coming out @VersoBooks too, we’ve been asked to engage. Fortunately, @PoliticOfNature has done this already - some thoughts 🧵
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Heute haben wir mit zwei Dutzend Wissenschaftler_innen, viele davon Professor_innen, vor der Humboldt-Universität Berlin gegen die vollkommen unzureichende Klimapolitik Deutschlands protestiert ... ... und uns dann hinter eine Straßenblockade der @AufstandLastGen gestellt.
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Die @SciReb_Germany stehen zur #LetzteGeneration & zum zivilen Ungehorsam. Wirtschaftshistoriker @MGSchmelzer erklärt, wieso
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“After decades of research, the time has come: degrowth now has its own journal.” Check out the first volume here:
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The acceleration of ecological breakdown is mind-blowing. "The volume lost during the hot summers of 2022 and 2023 is the same as that lost between 1960 and 1990."
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While postgrowth and degrowth are often defined as the “planned” reduction of production and consumption, there is little engagement with what “planning beyond growth” could look like. That's why we wrote a new working paper with @cedric_durand & @E_Hofferberth . Thread
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The Future is Degrowth is officially out today, with Andrea Vetter and @a_vansi . Thanks @VersoBooks and all the people involved in the discussions leading to this
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This is brutal. "The world’s remaining “carbon budget”, or the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, has halved in the past three years." #ClimateEmergency
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Wow. Ein Viertel (!) der Bevölkerung denkt, Wissenschaftler übertreiben die Risiken des #Klimawandel mit Absicht – so eine repräsentative Befragung der @FESonline . Tatsächlich ist eher das Gegenteil der Fall, Prognosen strukturell konservativ.
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The global concentration of capital is extreme: The richest 10% own around 60-80% of wealth, the poorest half less than 5%, according to just published World Inequality Report.
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"Gently limiting “luxury” demand from the 20% of European consumers who use the most energy saves seven times the amount of planet-heating gases that would be emitted in meeting the basic needs of the 20% who use the least energy, researchers have found."
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Capitalism's demand for unlimited growth is destroying the planet - and it cannot be made 'green' fast enough. It's been a real honour to participate in this @UpstreamPodcast on the green transition with @maxajl @triofrancos @jasonhickel @Beaskan @nitaneise @SergioChaparro8
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"In short, the Amazon is dying. Entire genetic libraries and symphonies of species – trees, birds, reptiles, insects and more, eons in the making, fine-tuned by natural selection – are being wiped out to make room for methane-belching cows."
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The results of the first UNFCCC Global Stocktake of climate mitigation policies is devastating. This core graph shows the profound failure of existing policy trajectories. We need much bolder policies, including demand reductions in rich countries.
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Researchers say there's now a 66% chance we will pass the 1.5C global warming threshold for the first time ever between now and 2027. Will this be a wake-up call? Everyone who is not scared does not understand the nature of irreversible climate breakdown
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In only 50 years, global use of materials has nearly quadrupled. Ultimately, over 90% of all materials extracted and used are wasted.
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It's official: Our book „The Future is Degrowth“ (with @a_vansi and Andrea Vetter) will be published next June with @VersoBooks . What's in it? ⬇️
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The situation is maddening: While global greenhouse gas emissions must be halved by 2030 (!), according to IPCC, the richtest countries such as US, Germany, UK and Canada are investing in new fossil infrastructure and fossil profits are skyrocketing.
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Capitalism is more profitable now than during the last seven (!) decades.
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Private jets are unacceptable in a climate emergency. Collectively set limits to reduce emissions fast must start with the excess emissions of the rich. Ban private jets now.
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Bis 2030 sollen in Deutschland noch 850 km neue (!) Autobahnen gebaut werden. Es ist Zeit, diesen Trend umzudrehen. @keinea49 ist nur der Anfang. #Dannibleibt #BlockFriday
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Within capitalism, insurers withdrawing from high-risk areas around wildfires and floods is a sure sign that the climate crisis is escalating. Capital produces the climate emergency, but will do everything not to pay for it.
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So, yesterday with @ScientistRebel1 and @DebtforClimate we occupied the German finance ministry demanding immediate Global South debt cancellation. I was on the balcony while colleagues plastered a scientific paper of ours on the wall.
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It might be a good day to remind everyone that the "Nobel prize in economics" is *not* a Nobel price. Philip Mirowski has analyzed the fascinating history of "The Neoliberal Ersatz Nobel Prize” & its function of legitimizing economics as „science“. @zeithistoriker @VersoBooks
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Do people realize that there is either a future for people or a future for the fossil fuel industry? You can't have both.
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After its driest summer in 500 years, much of Europe is in the grip of a winter drought driven by climate breakdown. Very informative report on dramatic situation in Italy, France, Spain, Austria and Germany. We are in the midst of #ClimateEmergency
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Page proofs for *The Future is Degrowth* (with Andrea Vetter and @a_vansi ) have arrived! Officially out in June. Many thanks to the entire team at @VersoBooks
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The EU is classifying forest biomass, largely imported from cutting trees, as zero-carbon emissions when in reality, burning forest biomass will produce higher emissions than fossil fuels during the coming decisive decades.
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The formative influence of the Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology on #degrowth can hardly be overstated. This open access book introduced key concepts and their legacies.
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This book by is a true masterpiece. Focusing on ecological distribution conflicts across the world, it makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Open Access
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The insanity of these incentives... "Analysis of EU and US shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based and cultivated meat."
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Please spread the news about the first international online Master's on #Degrowth 🎉 Excited that I'll be teaching with great scholars @g_kallis @jasonhickel @Brototi @corinna_viajera @timparrique (from whom I used this image 🙏) and many others. Admission starts tomorrow.
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Activists have disrupted the Brussels Economic Forum, arguing that #GrowthKills . Here are their demands:
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Climate inequality mapped. New research by @AbiDeivo , @jasonhickel and others has produced striking maps that illustrate the immensely unequal responsibility for climate breakdown and unequal health outcomes between countries.
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The amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world’s biggest economies reached a record $1.4tn(£1.1tn) in 2022. Of all subsidies to the energy sector, about three-quarters go to fossil fuels.
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Out today: Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation Published as Creative Commons from MayFly Books: . Happy to have contributed a chapter with @t_nowshin @n_treu . Congratulations to great editorial team!
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The society of waste we live in is highly inefficient. New research finds that every year the global economy "mismanages 49% of the food produced, 31% of the energy produced, 85% of ores & 26% of non-metallic minerals extracted, respectively." @R_Degrowth
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There's overwhelming evidence that we need more public transport and less individual mobility to avert ecological breakdown. Gouvernements priorities: "The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while railways shrank 6.5%".
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The Future is Degrowth, Not Apocalypse. New review of our book just dropped. It's more than a review - in fact, it's a re-reading of our book through apocalyptic discourse. @a_vansi @VersoBooks
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To celebrate  #EarthDay2023 , we suggest five books to contextualize the demands of a system hell-bent on perpetual growth and to help conceptualize a world centered around a vision of global ecological justice. @a_vansi ⬇️
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Es ist Zeit für eine ehrliche Diskussion über Klimapolitik! Für die #btw21 bekennen sich zwar fast alle Parteien zum Pariser 1,5°C-Ziel - doch keine hat einen Plan, wie das zu erreichen ist. @zeitonline hat unsere Studie mit @NeueOekonomie aufgegriffen, zentrales Ergebnis 👇
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If SUVs were a country, they would rank as the sixth most polluting in the world. Purchases of SUVs have soared in recent years globally, rising from 20% of new cars in 2012 to 46% of all cars last year, the IEA reports.
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Very excited to announce that I am working on a book on #degrowth with Andrea Vetter & @a_vansi , to be published with @VersoBooks
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The acceleration of the climate emergency in one comparison: "In the entire 20th century, there were only five fires that burned more than 100,000 acres. In 2020, there were eleven such fires." @dwallacewells
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I'm reading @koheisaito0131 's Marx in the Anthropocene. It's a fascinating book, highly recommended. A Capital for the 21st century.
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"As environmental, social and humanitarian crises escalate, the world can no longer afford two things: first, the costs of economic inequality; and second, the rich."
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What an indictment of growth obsessed economics by Irish President Michael D Higgins
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IMF warns of "age of breakdown": “greater uncertainty, higher economic volatility, geopolitical confrontations, and more frequent and devastating natural disasters – a world in which any country can be thrown off course more easily and more often.”
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One year ago, we published The Future is Degrowth – with @a_vansi and Andrea Vetter @versobooks . The reactions were overwhelming. So many reviews, enthusiastic and critical comments, reading groups, audiobook, translations in the making… Thank you so much. 🧵 on some reactions.
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We are *not* all equally responsible for the #ClimateEmergency . Richtest 5% is responsible for 37% of emissions growth 1990-2019, poorest 50% for 6%. @Oxfam new dinosaur graph
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Thanks @jasonhickel for this endorsement of our book, out next week with @VersoBooks
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Even the Financial Times argues that "technology will not solve the problem of climate change" because this fiction prevents "any discussion of the real solutions which require specific restraints on a number of activities in rich countries." #degrowth
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I’ve written on how Liz Truss’ call for ‘growth’ reveals the economics of deception behind neoliberal growth politics in general. @NewStatesman Since it’s paywalled, here’s the key argument 🧵
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Global capitalism produces so much stuff. If you haven't, check out this great website summarizing key results from a recent paper in @nature showing that in 2020, anthropogenic mass outweighs global biomass:
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As we are experiencing "the Earth’s hottest week in history" big oil continues to expand fossil fuel production to generate record profits, further escalating the climate crisis. Future generations will judge the level of these crimes against humanity.
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Capitalism trying to solve the overaccumulation problem through planned obsolescence while also creating artificial scarcity ⬇️
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🇨🇱 Images from the Atacama desert, which has become a dumpster for the global fast fashion industry. Over 100,000 tons of clothing, many of them new items with price tags that weren't sold or used, have been dumped in the Atacama desert in Chile.
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The critique of growth is as old as growth itself. In our recent book we identified seven forms of growth critique ⬇️ I'm now working on paper on the long-term history of these critiques (18th-20th c). Do you know historical literature that might be relevant? #twitterstorians
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Today, the @OECD turns 60 years. While many constantly use its statistics and refer to its reports, its history is little known. But it's key to understand the power behind what is often idealized as a rational and neutral think tank. Here's two books on this ⬇️
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Colonialism and racism have enabled climate change, and fundamentally shape climate policy and action today. We urgently need to decolonize movements and institutions. Important new analysis⬇️
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“Degrowth is a new vocabulary and a movement” Check out this new pamphlet "Demystifying Degrowth" by Jamie Tyberg and Erica Jung
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Everyone involved in climate politics, and indeed everyone interested in the future, should take 15 minutes to watch this presentation by @ProfSteveKeen to understand, why the models of neoclassical economists are threatening life on earth. #DontLookUp
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Matthias Schmelzer
8 months
I am thrilled to share our new paper, with @E_Hofferberth & @cedric_durand , Open Access in the Journal of Cleaner Production Planning beyond growth: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits. 1/
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Matthias Schmelzer
4 years
Our new book 🚀🐌✊🏾 #Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformtion A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination. 📘Published @Zer0Books & with CC licence. Whats it about, whos in it? 👉🏽THREAD 1/
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