"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Interested in degrowth, ecological overshoot, ecological economics, random different "bits and bobs".
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
I think most people do not understand how unbelievably scary this is. It makes me sick that most of the world’s societies have ignored all of the warnings for the past 5 decades. Climate scientists have been telling us that this accelerated warming was coming, it is here now and just getting worse.
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
One rule for thee, and another for me? We are told the University of Exeter is at risk because of falling income, but management salaries & consultancy costs have risen markedly. What's going on? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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i was never a degrowth kind of person - i thought we should slow down but not go back - but i'm pretty much there now. we fucked up and need to redo the past 26 years.
Collapse is not coming. It's already here. Our house is burning, yet the economy remains business as usual, and the tourist stays under the umbrella. Like frogs in boiling water, we don't jump, we normalize collapse. The real crisis is our inability to buid an economy beyond capitalism. #Degrowth
“I think the growth addiction is the perfect example of this erosion of freedom. While serving human wellbeing should be our ultimate goal, we have become a means to serve the economy.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency - @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/how-europe-c...
How Europe Can Chart Its Own Economic Path
It is often argued that, in order to keep European industries alive, we must scale back democratic standards. But is that really the only choice Europe has?
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No oil, no capitalism. Cheap fossil energy fuels capitalism, not civilization. A just society can prioritize the energy we have for human needs and living ecosystems instead of endless accumulation and profit. #Degrowth thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/no-oil-no-...
No Oil, No Food
How the many converging crises lowered the prospect of keeping all 8.3 billion of us alive
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This kind of thing is why degrowth is so essential to a political program, btw. Without it, there's no brake on this endless whirlpool of exploitation. We need a political culture that says it's fine to have enough. You can stay home. Slacking off is great. Go for a walk rather than hustle more.
Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 4d agoCapitalism is a death march
A monthly selection of reprinted articles on #degrowth-related topics. This month includes ones by Berman, Heinberg, Bardi, Tverberg. Our @markhburton was in last month's. Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv22n08page1.html
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
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“Hence, the natural environment in peripheral countries is sacrificed to perpetuate capitalist valorisation & accumulation, meaning that the costs of wealth generation are shifted from where surplus value is appropriated.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #CarbonOffsets www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Structural exploitation in the Colombian Amazon: a materialist study of forest carbon offsets
This article examines the exploitative nature of Indigenous peoples’ participation in forest carbon offset projects in the Colombian Amazon. The argument is that the exploitation charge against the...
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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.
open.substack.com
"The Ukrainian campaign knocked out more than 30 and 45 per cent of Russia’s actual and nominal capacity, respectively," bruh? www.ft.com/content/3990...
How Putin’s refinery dream became Ukraine’s target
Damage to Russian refineries still visible from space months after strikes
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Yes, and what has been driving the very hot weather in the UK, Europe and elsewhere...? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Suffolk wildfires: What caused them to take hold?
Parts of East Anglia around Suffolk have experienced an extended period of dry weather creating the conditions for wildfires.
bbc.co.uk
There's no reason a politician should have a better healthcare plan than any of their constituents regardless of military service. I say this as a Veteran.
@rain-singer.bsky.social · 6d ago
In America there are entire industries depending on school shooters.
While the University of Exeter redundancy disaster staggers forward, a reminder that this is not about numbers in spreadsheets but people's lives. lizzywilliamson.substack.com/p/on-redunda...
On Redundancy
Four weeks ago, the university that I have been working at for 9 years announced massive, unjustified, reckless job cuts, predominantly targeting the humanities, arts and social sciences.
lizzywilliamson.substack.com
"I remain disgusted that our prime minister invited President Isaac Herzog to our country earlier this year, as Israel continues to perpetrate a genocide against Palestinians...While many Australians face abject poverty, donors are buying potential influence for corporations. Secrecy is rampant …”
I’m running against the prime minister to stand up to a system that has facilitated the success of Pauline Hanson | Hannah Ferguson
I refuse to allow a cynical outlook of politics to infect our country, which is why I’m standing as an independent in Anthony Albanese’s seat of Grayndler
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It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.
This is their plan. This has always been their plan. Perhaps by the end of this year we will see them argue why climate change means we need stronger borders.
John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 7d agoIt’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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A new poll shows half of America wants Netanyahu arrested on U.S. soil.
Half of Americans Support Arresting Benjamin Netanyahu: Poll
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes
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That said, in the intermediate years Wikipedia has reached I form I never would've thought possible.
@edzitron.com's theory is that Google tanked search in order to keep people on the site longer to serve them more ads, thus improving search's score on internal metrics that were meaningful to the advancement of the careers of the people pushing for them. www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts....
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“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,” Hannah Arendt. Are we there yet?