Gavin Daly

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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
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How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

„More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.“

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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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For those in any doubt, the ongoing nitrates derogation debate is not about the science on water quality, it's political wrangling, with our rivers, lakes and seas caught in the crossfire.

Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics.

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YouTube video by ICTA-UAB Giorgos Kallis: "Political Ecological Economics and the nature of economic growth"

For those who weren't able to attend, you can now view a recording of my talk: "Political Ecological Economics and the nature of economic growth"

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Hope you enjoy!

🗣️ "We are talking ourselves into autocracy here, by taking away people’s rights," says Fred Logue, Solicitor Specialising in Planning & Environmental Law, highlighting the value he sees in the judicial review process.
#TonightVMTV

Ricardo Tranjan: Think Doug Ford has walked back his war on tenants? There’s more to come. Here’s how it should be fought. Last week, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act. It includes many troubling legislative changes, but popular outcry so far has focused on the direct attack

Bill 60 is a vicious, one-sided tenancy legislation. It will cause widespread suffering and loss of life. Anyone who stays neutral is complicit. In this @thestar.com article, I focus on why mayors should fight it.

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New planning bill could jeopardise UK’s trade deal with EU, ambassador warns Exclusive: Proposed legislation removes EU-derived nature protections as government hopes to boost economic growth

So much for "boosting growth".
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
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I'll be giving a talk on Tue 4 Nov, 15:00–16:30 CET.

“Political Ecological Economics & the nature of growth.”

It will revolve around why growth persists (surplus extraction, cost-shifting) and how to move beyond it.

Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8854726631...

The impact of wealth inequality on carbon emissions and climate policy Reducing inequality and carbon emissions represent interrelated global challenges. Whereas research has paid considerable attention to income inequality in relation to emissions and climate mitigat...

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To Transport or Not to Transport: Post‐Growth Avenues for Transport Infrastructure Planning Post-growth literature has recently raised attention to the role of transport infrastructure planning in relation to global sustainability challenges and human wellbeing. Transport infrastructure can...

Transport Planning & Post-Growth? Does it work, or not? Which tensions surface, and what are trade-offs to discuss? 'To Transport or Not to Transport: Post-Growth Avenues for Transport Infrastructure Planning' in Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy 📖 doi.org/10.1002/jci3... #postgrowthplanning

With think tank Progress Ireland, the yimby movement here is powering up With help from a wider network overseas.

The @dublininquirer.com dug a bit deeper into this Progress Ireland in this great piece by Lois Kapila
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The President will have no role in environmental policy whatsoever

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
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I have created a starter pack of #degrowth and #post-growth people on Bluesky! Have a look and let me know if I have missed someone :) Really happy that Bluesky is the new place to be 🐌🌱✊

No problem. I would say it is precisely the opposite.

Always very convenient when anti-degrowters admit right up front that they don't know what degrowth is.

Degrowth is not about making people poorer. Most wealthy countries have seen plenty of growth over the last few decades, but lives have gotten worse.

You can’t separate aggregate wealth from its distributional and material consequences under capitalism. I’ll ask my librarian to order it and put it in the reading list for my first year ecological economics course. I’ll let you know what they think. Good luck with the book.

Global Income Inequality - Global Inequality

This is not X, so I won't engage in ad hominem. I do respectful debate. I am afraid there is great weight of academic and empirical literature which would disagree with you on that. Anyway, you certainly haven't sold your book to me! I was hoping for something

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Its neither simple, obvious or non-controversial! The biggest contributer to low availability and accessibility of goods and services globally, and its pathalogcal outcomes, is the capitalist growth economy. The top 10% of the world’s population owns around 70–80% of total global wealth.

Very interested in good faith critiques. I have read none so far.

Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

“EPA said the biggest threats to overall health of the country’s natural water bodies include animal waste, fertilisers & pesticides running off farmland and forestry”.

Politically backed ongoing wreckage of our natural environment for profit continues unabated.

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That didn’t answer my question! I wrote my own PhD on Degrowth. The purpose of the concept is to try to stop make everyone poorer. If you want a concept that ‘promises the moon’, see ecomodernism. I guess I won’t be buying the book.

Is this one of those books where the author hasn’t read a word of Degrowth literature but instead engages in preconceived straw men arguments? Reading the blurb, it certainly seems to be that. Degrowth is the opposite of “making everyone poorer”