Destination Degrowth

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Luftverkehrssteuer: Union fordert günstigere Flugtickets Die Luftverkehrssteuer soll im kommenden Jahr sinken, um die Flugbranche zu entlasten. Geht es nach dem Unions-Experten Stracke, sollen auch Reisende davon profitieren - am besten schon zum nächsten S...

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Further evidence that Germany's welcome fiscal loosening is poorly targeted: taxes on air travel are to be cut. www.tagesschau.de/inland/luftf...
Faced on the one hand with the climate crisis, on the other with a debate about financing welfare spending: Make Flying Great Again?

Why not pedestrianise and create a great square while you're at it?

Trasformare la rabbia in speranza: "l'ecopopulismo" di Zack Polanski, leader dei Verdi inglesi - Valigia Blu Con Zack Polanski il Green Party di Inghilterra e Galles sta conoscendo un record di tesseramenti, tallonando nei sondaggi i Laburisti del premier Keir Starmer

🧵 Trasformare la rabbia in speranza: “l’ecopopulismo” di Zack Polanski, leader dei Verdi inglesi | @mattiamarasti.bsky.social
www.valigiablu.it/regno-unito-...

This is funny because after the "re-opening" of Friedrichstraße for cars not people, it is the eighth most dangerous road in all of Germany.
Because of the car brains in the current government. It is and remains a farce.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

The march down the High

Marchers

Banner 'Oxford Stand up to Racism, Refugees Welcome'

Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.

It's changing institutions and overcoming the growth imperative of capitalism (@jasonhickel.bsky.social, Spash) as well as the imperial mode of living and producing (Brand &Wissen) that make it so hard. We need to build counter power and a solidaristic mode of living instead!

Let's #degrowcars and save children's lives!

Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

There's no sensible way to monetarily value a tree! Just like art, they are priceless! Would we replace the tree with 2.5m€ worth of tanks? SUVs? Luxury flats? These things are incommensurable!

About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls, court told Ford denies having created ‘defeat devices’ in legal action on behalf of 1.6 million owners against five carmakers

About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls. Company knew. Many were never formally recalled or fixed.

Companies chase profits by lying, cheating. Yet neoliberals push for deregulation, less consumer rights.

Hold execs personally liable.

Love this! And completely get it - that's the same with trains! So many fascinating and deep conversations with people who are complete strangers. It really strengthens society and can bring us together. #degrowcars #buildrail #endloneliness

(that includes Stagecoach bus drivers in the UK sadly who should know better...)

This is so true! It's why I am always unhappy with car drivers who are grumpy at me for waiting for them to stop - I am not going to risk my life for a second of your life. Make it clear you'll stop then I'll go.

Das 🇩🇪-Ticket wird bald für 14 Mio. Menschen teurer. Doch anstatt Bahntickets, verbilligt die Bundesregierung jetzt ernsthaft für 350 Mio. €/Jahr Flugtickets. Diese Regierung ist sozialpolitisch eine absolute Zumutung & klimapolitisch ein Totalausfall. Wie kann man nur so schiefe Prioritäten haben?

30 years COP - do your job!

‘The car belongs in Berlin’: city backpedaling on bike-friendly policies, critics say Car-critical measures have been slashed since the conservative CDU came into power in 2023, triggering protests and dividing communities

Sogar in Großbritannien erzählt man sich kopfschüttelnd von der Auto-zentrischen Politik der Berliner CDU und ihrer Bereitschaft, für immer mehr Blech in Berlin die Bevölkerung zu spalten und zu radikalisieren:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Die Kürzung der Ticketsteuer fürs Fliegen führt zu Mindereinnahmen von 350.000.000 Euro im Bundeshaushalt.

Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist.

Prioritäten. So wichtig.

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fully agree! Today's Berlin-Paris night train is not running due to the carriages being unavailable... Very likely that the old and disfunctional state of them caused this!

You know what Weber will do now though. Act contrite, row back a bit, say he cannot control how the populist right will vote. Do it politely.

People in Brussels and Berlin will forgive him, attributing it to being "pro business".

And then he'll do it all over again.

(Weber is a nasty little shit)

Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme

Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Das Lieferkettengesetz ist mit heute tot 🚨

Die #ÖVP hasst den Green Deal so sehr, dass sie dafür sogar mit der #FPÖ paktiert. Die Brandmauer ist gebrochen und die FPÖ freut sich.

Aber warum machen die @neos.eu da mit? 👀😳

Look behind you?

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.

Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?

Anzeige einer elektronischen Abstimmung im Europäischen Parlament. Oben steht „report WARBORN A10-0197/2025“ und „Commission proposal“. Links sind Symbole mit Zahlen: ein gelbes Symbol neben „644“, ein grünes Plus neben „382“, ein rotes Minus neben „249“ und ein graues Kreis-Symbol neben „013“. Rechts ist eine halbrunde Sitzgrafik mit farbigen Punkten, die die Stimmen der Abgeordneten darstellen: viele grüne Punkte (Ja-Stimmen), zahlreiche rote Punkte (Nein-Stimmen) sowie einige weiße oder graue Punkte (Enthaltungen oder nicht abgegebene Stimmen). Im Hintergrund ist der Plenarsaal des Europäischen Parlaments zu sehen.

Dammbruch im EU-Parlament: Erstmals beschließt eine Mehrheit aus Konservativen und Rechtsextremen - also auch CDU, CSU und AfD eine Gesetzesposition. Damit werden u.a. Kinderarbeit und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Lieferketten gefördert. Vollkommen verheerend. Schämt euch, CDU und CSU.

Danke fürs organisieren! Sehr wichtig für Berlin das es endlich vorwärts geht.

Update: emails arrived 3 days later! Not great but I guess they're sorting it somehow. @deutschebahn.com