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honestly … Trump killing off carbon-capture boondoggles that Big Oil was just gonna leverage for tax writeoffs and expanded drilling is probably the least objectionable thing he's done this term

Degrowth has never been a coherent political perspective, nor has it had an agreed political strategy. This interview with Jason Hickel and reply by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, and Terry Leahy pair well to highlight the dividing lines. Links below.

actually maybe chaudhary should be the reference point for these discussions for everyone

also not very good imo to reject the idea of the working class(es) as political subject, and not really coming up with an answer to well ok what's degrowth's political subject (besides academics). Chaudhary, not a degrowther but also not an orthodox socialist/marxist, is better at that

I'd guess i'm poltically aligned slightly more towards Liegey et al's decentralist/pluralist politics, but i do think saying that degrowth is a movement and not primarily a theoritical framework used mostly by academics is wishful thinking

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Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

the impact of America: Scandinavian public broadcaster Live-streaming the kirk memorial service

yeap, the mighty trade block can only bully Global South countries into unfavourable trade deals.

Maybe it's just that going down to the level of detailed industrial, transport etc changes makes it all the more difficult to see/express (at the top level) how overarching system change (away from capitalism) must be?

A progressive framework for green industrial policy In the age of ecological breakdown, there is a growing need for ‘green’ industrial policy. However, existing frameworks for green industrial policy fail to address unsustainable growth in energy an...

I always struggle when reading these kinds of articles - yes, the industrial changes themselves seem allright, but: i feel like these perspectives obfuscate the depth of how much societies need to change? throwing out growth/accumulation also means throwing out capitalist development, etc

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I've become increasingly skeptical of rights discourse from a realist perspective, not because I don't like what these juridical fictions claim to confer, but because they manifestly don't actually do that and stuff like this lets people think something meaningful is happening when it's not

Auf einer Website wird ein Buch verkauft, das „The Invention of Scarcity“ heisst. Die ebook-Version für 64$ ist „vergriffen“.

Kapitalismus (Symbolbild)

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

look, i know i made my own history but i swear it was not under conditions of my own choosing

Capitalism is when work has dignity but workers do not

obvi many problems with capitalistic mass production, but this just pretends that artisan production inherently cannot have these problems... but it obviously would if it replaced e.g. industrial mass production of clothes

note to self: prime example of how degrowth can go astray into romanticising small-scale and having a bad critique of mass production

i'm not "over the word limit" i'm embodying an abundance mindset

The climate centre is barking mad The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities

"Natural scientists have been far too naïve about how their equivocal comments about large-scale CDR and other geoengineering approaches will be used by policy makers to argue against the rapid phase out of fossil fuels." - Prof. @jamesgdyke.info, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

bro chill my attack was symbolic

Libs: your politics is all about America bad

It never misses though

Translation matters by Marx provokes gang clashes today:

the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads: * PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES * YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE * Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS" * "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them (This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers): ? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop] ?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars] ??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving] "Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please" They have played us for absolute fools

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Economic crisis, a recession looming. We all know what comes next...

Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right

This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it

Overshoot and the 1.5-degree Celsius warming target - Historical Materialism I wrote this shortly after participating in an historic HM Conference in London, only days after having heard the election result in the US while in the UK. We now face the increasing threat of reachi...

Now online: David Schwartzman, 'Overshoot and the 1.5-Degree Celsius Warming Target'.

Chanced upon a book on Soviet film posters from 1924 - 1929. Perhaps the greatest era for film posters