Vanessa Spedding

Une pluie de bombardements s’abat sur le sud de Beyrouth, où l’armée israélienne poursuit ses frappes meurtrières

Big anti-war demo heading towards the US Embassy in London

Power We need those with power to give it away.

“The first big corporate media that consistently supports #degrowth or ecological economics will be going against their paymasters (advertisers) by doing so, so don’t hold your breath.”

Power - @mattorsagh.bsky.social
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Yep. Very well said.

Every one of them. Utterly grotesque.

Never underestimate sustainable farming! 🌱🌍 It slashes human-caused GHG emissions while rebuilding healthy soils and strengthening communities. Less chemicals, more biodiversity = real climate action. Who's ready to farm smarter? #SustainableFarming #ClimateChange

Absolutely. Well said.

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

Macron says the US-Israeli strikes on Iran are illegal.

Suddenly Pedro Sánchez doesn’t look like the outlier the Telegraph claimed.

Maybe Europe is remembering Iraq.
Question now is whether Starmer will say the same out loud.

www.politico.eu/article/us-s...

#StopTheWar #Peace #HandsoffIran #CND

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

The #UN is beginning to say it out loud:

An economy designed to serve the ultra-rich is incompatible with planetary survival.

Climate crisis and inequality are the same problem.

#degrowth #inequality #socialjustice #tellthetruth #taxtherich

Jonathan Cook (@jonathancook) Remember the western media's constant refrain that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "unprovoked" – despite years of documented western provocations. Iran did nothing to provoke the Israeli-US attack....

Iran did nothing to provoke the Israeli-US attack

Yet notice this: not one media outlet has described the attack as "unprovoked"

substack.com/@jonathancoo...

Mañana se cumplen 10 años del asesinato de Berta Cáceres, lideresa indígena lenca y defensora del territorio.
Nos concentraremos frente a la Embajada de Honduras en Madrid y el Consulado en Bilbao y habrá actos en varias ciudades.
👉🏾 Todos los detalles: www.ecologistasenaccion.org/evento/estat...

A Permaculture Recipe for Community Regeneration

Goal:

Restore tired soil, strengthen neighborhood connections, and build living resilience with simple permaculture practices rooted in gratitude.

resilientcommunities.network

#garden #resilience #writers #permaculture #community #author #poet

Starmer speaks to Trump after UK joins defensive operation in Middle East Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

Use of the word 'defensive' here is utterly abhorrent. This is why Starmer is detested and BBC 'journalism' is derided by everyone outside the Establishment bubble. This is an illegal war and Israel, the U.S. and U.K. are the aggressors. 🇮🇷
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The fact that there are "sources" linked at the bottom makes a funny chart 100x funnier

Blair's think tank is funded by Larry Ellison (Oracle). Ellison is an enemy of democracy, building surveillance states and funds Israel's genocide.

He should be nowhere near public services.

I like this vision 🥰

Excellent work from excellent team. And let's be sure to not bury the headlines here: coral reefs are GONE. Beyond 1.5°C we should expect >90% dead. North Atlantic currents very vulnerable at this temp. These are potentially v fast tipping points that could cause havoc with weather, farming. 1/5

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

Post-growth economics offers us more choice, more realism and more insight into the possibilities for human prosperity. No nation meets the basic needs of its residents while also staying within its biophysical limits! let that one sink in! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great writing, with fascinating insights into the interplay between Christianity and capitalism - and a compelling call to deploy the tenets of faith to challenge our destructive economic paradigm. Guessing the book will be good 😊

Pleasure. It autocorrected Christianity to Christians 🙄 - will try again!

Great piece of writing, with fascinating insights into the interplay between Christians and capitalism - and a compelling call to deploy the tenets of faith to challenge our destructive economic paradigm. Bet the book will be good 😊

An engaging and provocative book that brings liberation theology into conversation with degrowth. It challenges Christians--and others--to imagine an economy of solidarity beyond growth. Achieving climate justice and a just social-ecological transformation will require broad coalitions across society, and this book offers a thoughtful contribution to that shared endeavor from within the Christian tradition. Matthias Schmelzer, professor for social-ecological transformation research at the University of Flensburg and coauthor of The Future Is Degrowth

Really grateful for this thoughtful endorsement of Enough Is Enough from @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social, someone whose work has been so helpful as we tried to find our own path into the degrowth conversation.

Tactical voting: It's vote Green to beat Reform in Gorton and Denton. #ByElection #GortonandDenton

Labour to come third in key byelection

You can smell the Labour Governments panic.

They're trying their hardest to discredit the new poll because it tells everyone that the alternative has well and truly arrived.

Gorton & Denton is the Green Party Vs Reform.

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

What do tipping points mean for climate policy?
Climate change won't be smooth.
Delay reaching emission targets by a few years, and you might not just get slightly worse climate impacts.
You may unwittingly cross a line for unstoppable, massive changes.
global-tipping-points.org

I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.

Forests don’t just store carbon. They keep people alive, scientists say For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood and soils, and slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases. A new scientific…

A new Science review finds forests do more than store carbon — they cool air, stabilize rainfall & buffer extreme heat.

Clearing forests can quickly create hotter, drier conditions & raise heat-related health risks. Protecting forests is vital not just for emissions cuts, but climate adaptation.

What we learned this week

The Guardian have run a whole series of articles this week on the theme Beyond Growth (a name I once used for a sister website to this one). Good to see that kind of sustained attention on postgrowth futures in a mainstream newspaper. As the Trump administration revoked…

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

'... key finding: no nation had met the basic needs of its residents while also staying within its biophysical limits.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ClimateEmergency #NatureEmergency #degrowth

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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