Aaron Vansintjan
@avansi.bsky.social
Read my newsletter, Another Day On Earth: aaron.eo.page Books: The Sustainability Class, The Future Is Degrowth
For me, this book didn't feel particularly revelatory because it's just common sense. Infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet, and measuring economic stability with a single metric (GDP) completely flattens and obstructs reality. @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social @avansi.bsky.social #climate
A public grocery network across Canada could save families approximately 30-45% off their grocery bill, depending on where they live—and would only cost a reasonable amount to set up. By @avansi.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social Raj Patel Anna Paskal www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
How public grocery stores could work in Canada - CCPA
Chances are you spent some of your holiday gatherings talking about the price of food. Costs to consumers have increased by almost 30 per cent since 2020, while mega-grocers doubled their profit margi...
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Fantastic short video on how a publicly owned grocery chain would work in Canada. Any #NZPol Food Policy policy nerds on here keen do some analysis on how this might work here in Aotearoa NZ?
Aaron Vansintjan@avansi.bsky.social · 10mo ago"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice" An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice" An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
Why Canada needs public grocery stores
YouTube video by The Breach
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Great discussion with Nick on @broadbent.bsky.social's new Class & Climate podcast. Give it a listen!
Broadbent Institute@broadbent.bsky.social · last yr.🎙New Class & Climate episode: @avansi.bsky.social + Vijay Kolinjivadi join @greeneconnet.bsky.social's Nick Pearce to take on the “sustainability class” and show why green consumption isn’t enough. Listen here: perspectivesjournal.ca/the-sustaina...
🎙New Class & Climate episode: @avansi.bsky.social + Vijay Kolinjivadi join @greeneconnet.bsky.social's Nick Pearce to take on the “sustainability class” and show why green consumption isn’t enough. Listen here: perspectivesjournal.ca/the-sustaina...
Join us for our Montreal book launch for The Sustainability Class on May 22 at Pulp Books. We'll be joined by Alejandra Zaga Mendes, MNA for the party Quebec Solidaire in Verdun. @thenewpress.bsky.social pulpbooks.ca/events/26445...
Our event with @haymarketbooks.org yesterday is now up on Youtube! It was a delight to hear what Ashley and Emma had to say about what environmentalism for everyone looks like. @thenewpress.bsky.social @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCa...
The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism
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LIVE NOW! Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism. Stream here:
The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism
We are currently witnessing the dismantling of environmental policies and a reversal of climate commitments on a large scale. But what kind of environmentali...
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“In fact, the future on offer by the sustainability class is not sustainable at all. Or rather, it only promises to sustain the present order of things—which all indicators suggest is hurtling towards ecological breakdown…” #degrowth @avansi.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/a...
Action on Climate Change May Look Different Than You Expect
Talk a walk through the Los Angeles’ Arts District, and you’ll learn that there's nothing contradictory about trying to save the world and living a luxury
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Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism. Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
How can we reject the sustainability class, and build a working class environmentalism capable of progressive change? 🌏 Join us Thu Apr 24, 2-3:30pm EDT (7-8.30pm BST) as we discuss this key climate issue: @ashdawson.bsky.social @avansi.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
yes, all this and more is in the first few pages of our book!
@jeanmariemink.bsky.social · last yr.The book was on the New Books shelf at Ann Arbor’s district library. Just finishing the introduction and already I see the connections behind Trump/Musk actions in such stark focus - from gentrification, nearly complete over-class, minerals mining in Greenland! Ukraine! The world’s oceans! The moon!
The book was on the New Books shelf at Ann Arbor’s district library. Just finishing the introduction and already I see the connections behind Trump/Musk actions in such stark focus - from gentrification, nearly complete over-class, minerals mining in Greenland! Ukraine! The world’s oceans! The moon!
"If the members of this class are to be more than a green aristocracy, they must relinquish their grip on the environmental narrative." @kevinini.bsky.social reviews The Sustainability Class by @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social wccalliance.org/the-sustaina...
Book Review – The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists
Written by Kevin Picado 14th February 2025 Norway, widely praised for its green policies and renewable energy initiatives, has cultivated a reputation as a global leader in sustainability. Its land…
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Hanging out with Aaron and Vijay to talk about the distortion of sustainability to equal green consumption with moral implications and ask: what is to be done?
Aaron Vansintjan@avansi.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Sustainability Class is heading to New York City! Come see us talk at two different events: Greenpoint Public Library, Brooklyn Saturday January 25, 1:00-2:30pm Woodbine, Queens Sunday January 26, 4:30pm @vijaykol.bsky.social
The Sustainability Class is heading to New York City! Come see us talk at two different events: Greenpoint Public Library, Brooklyn Saturday January 25, 1:00-2:30pm Woodbine, Queens Sunday January 26, 4:30pm @vijaykol.bsky.social
"speculative leftist conversations about the potential necessity of CCS and other 'modern' technologies appear naive and irrelevant—these are the means of our class enemies, seeking only to prolong and intensify the uses and extent of fossil fuels." -@kaibosworth.bsky.social
From Fossil Capital to Green Capital – Spectre Journal
Kai Bosworth reviews Adam Hanieh's Crude Capitalism, arguing that Hanieh's analysis hellpfully emphasizes the "capitalism" in "fossil capitalism."
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Nothing can be eco-friendly until the ecological debt is paid. In this excerpt from our book, @vijaykol.bsky.social and I describe the uneven distribution of labor, nature, and debt that props up rich nations—and their supposedly green solutions. www.cetri.be/Nothing-can-...
Nothing can be ‘green' or ‘eco-friendly' until the ecological debt is paid – Centre tricontinental
William Kapp came up with the idea of a cost-shifting success in his ahead-of-its-time book The Social Costs of Private Enterprise.1–2 A cost-shifting success is when the costs of producing…
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He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.
Nothing can be ‘green’ or ‘eco-friendly’ until the ecological debt for the historical and ongoing exploitation driving environmental collapse is paid. By @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social 👇 www.cetri.be/Nothing-can-... #ecologicaldebt #climatedebt
Here's @vijaykol.bsky.social and I in today's TIME magazine. "Strangely, in the middle of ecological breakdown threatening the very basis of human life to thrive on this planet, superyachts or luxury tourism resorts are just not up for public debate." time.com/7200268/ultr...
The Trouble With the Ultra-Rich's Environmentalism
Zero-carbon mansions and super-yachts are less a sign of a sustainable future than a highly exclusive one.
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"The more our political energy goes to the politics of self-expression, the less there is for the fights we really need to win against mass deportation, mass incarceration, the climate crisis." by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
The Bad Guys Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are
Infighting is a waste of energy.
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