Matt Orsagh
@mattorsagh.bsky.social
Normalizing the conversation about a post-growth world.
Breaking America open.substack.com/pub/degrowth... degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/breaking-a... How do you see the United States cracking up? #degrowth
Breaking America
The United States will break up in the next 50 years. Maybe sooner.
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Media Silence on Climate Change The freedom of media organizations to talk about climate is directly proportional to their ability to speak the truth about climate change - namely that addressing it will mean confronting our growth obsessed culture. #degrowth
Media Silence on Climate Change
The incentive is to keep your mouth shut.
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Philanthropy Should Aim to End Philanthropy open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
Philanthropy Should Aim to End Philanthropy
It doesn't ... yet.
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The Paradox of Sufficiency How sufficiency focused businesses operate in an environment that pushes them to grow profits at all costs. #degrowth
The Paradox of Sufficiency
A template for making the sufficiency argument in business
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The Lie at the Heart of Capitalism All societies have been shaped by the desire for more, because it’s a part of human nature. But how that desire is channeled depends on us. It depends on the stories we tell ourselves. You are allowed to push back from the table and say “enough”. #degrowth
The Lie at the Heart of Capitalism
They say it's your fault.
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A recent proposal to change Spanish law to give workers more voice and power in the corporations they work for failed to become law - but laid down a blueprint for others to follow. #degrowth
Spanish Legislative Bombs
The proposal did not become law - but laid down a marker.
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If you are looking for a community that is cleareyed about the problems of climate and overshoot, and uses economics based on reality to try to deal with these problems - you could do worse than the Society for Ecological Economics. degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-societ...
The Society for Ecological Economics
Check them out. You might like what you see.
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The reality of the limits to growth are becoming clearer every day. At some point they will become too evident to ignore. A post-growth world is coming whether we speak about it or not. Why not lean into it? #degrowth
Lean in to Slowing Global Growth
It beats the alternative.
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The phrase “everyone gets a unicorn” is a way to say that everyone gets an extraordinary and magical thing, or more simply. An example would be a world in which every world leader decides to do the right thing tomorrow. This will not happen and to suggest it is within reach is dangerous. #degrowth
Everyone Gets a Unicorn
The Global Justice Report
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Today, young black men in the United States have direct control over whether people in the South will be happy or whether they will not. That is a great deal of power. It is power that is very easy to use, requires very little sacrifice, and can do a great deal of good.
Power. Use it or Lose it.
A racial gerrymander can be undone by a few teenagers.
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Hawaii fires the first shot in move in defanging Citizens United. Will other states follow? degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/hawaii-tak...
Hawaii Takes Back Its Power
49 states say ... "You can do that?"
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📢 Dream job alert for degrowth & climate justice folks 🌱✨ Research & Degrowth International is hiring a Communications Officer in Barcelona 🇪🇸. If you’re into activist comms, media strategy, social movements & ecology— this might be for you 💥 🗓 Apply by May 15 degrowth.org/blog/2026/04...
Open call communications officer – degrowth.org
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#degrowth Insecurity is the natural state of our lives, yet we treat it as a shameful state of being that is short term in nature. Strength is a short term, often fleeting state of being that we try to convince ourselves is our natural state.
Insecurity is Your Reality. Strength is an Illusion.
We must accept our collective insecurity to build collective strength.
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A society that didn’t feel compelled to grow at all costs would see this as a ridiculously dangerous bargain, and never go down the data center road, and be much more deliberate and cautious about AI. We don’t live in that world. #degrowth degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-are-d...
What Are Data Centers For?
For accelerating collapse ... for profit.
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