Bob the Baker

Too-cheap-to-meter green energy is the exact opposite of degrowth, and socialist regimes have consistently been the dirtiest environmental polluters and despoilers in history.

Inside Bioregionalism’s Tech-Driven Revival | NOEMA As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.

"Humanity now faces the urgent question of how to operate in a more sustainable, reciprocal relationship with our environments.

A growing ecological movement sees the solution in bioregionalism: ,,,"
#degrowth

Inside Bioregionalism’s Tech-Driven Revival www.noemamag.com/inside-the-p...

Radical thinking and thoughts in the purest sense of the word. What a phenomenal read.
#Degrowth

Degrowth is often mistaken for austerity, but its core questions are about choosing what is truly valuable, not the value that is determined by the market.

#misconceptions

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him Than You Think The Supreme Court’s stunning invalidation of most of the president’s tariffs is another sign that Trumpist populist nationalism is in crisis.

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him Than You Think newrepublic.com/article/2068... via @newrepublic.com

Now that the legal situation is clear, it is time for the US to rebuild DEI The only question is how to do so in ways that are legally sound, institutionally durable and worthy of renewed trust, says James S. Bridgeforth

Now that the legal situation is clear, it is time for the US to rebuild DEI www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/now-...

Grateful to have collaborated on this work with many great minds --> How to create new, more equal and less violent worlds? Degrowth visions promise such worlds, but a central problem remains how to understand degrowth as it exists now. Here we offer some ways to ground degrowth political theorizing

Assessing public support for degrowth: survey-based experimental and predictive studies Contrary to concerns from politicians and commentators that degrowth is broadly unpopular, the core degrowth proposal received substantial support from UK and US participants in this study, regardless...

I'd rather call it #PostGrowth, but whatever you call it, the public has no problem understanding that the economy should work for people and planet, rather than us all working ourselves and trashing the environment for "the economy"

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

When sufficiency meets seawater: Building a blue moral economy The sufficiency and wellbeing economy movement can’t end at the shoreline.

“Plankton is neither progressive or conservative; it simply photosynthesises. Aligning blue #degrowth with a blue moral economy invites a shared mission to keep Earth’s lungs breathing. Without a living ocean there’s no #postgrowth, only post-everything.”
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/when-suffi...

The Lancet report is a great overview, lots of resources!

There is some good news for those that are looking. Degrowth is the way forward.

We all need to be working less.

We all need to be spending more time with our loved ones & doing our dorky hobbies.

The planet is overheating.

We all need to slow down & build a culture that encourages/rewards that.

First, They Came for Your Elections. Then, Your Guns. Trump’s fascist regime is running roughshod over states’ rights, obliterating one of the Republican Party’s supposedly most sacred principles.

"Just a decade ago, when Trump first sought the presidency, the Republican Party platform included complaints against the Obama administration for “bullying of state and local governments.”

First, They Came for Your Elections. Then, Your Guns. newrepublic.com/article/2061... via @newrepublic.com

The climate crisis won't be solved by tinkering with markets It's time for a more progressive approach to green industrial policy

“As we highlight [in several studies], a growing majority of climate scientists & members of the public support #postgrowth positions & believe that socially unnecessary production & consumption pose a significant threat to our planet & society.” #degrowth
www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/the-climat...

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels …

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis
J.Hickel

"Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, ..."
#degrowth

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Designing for Degrowth: Energy Policy and the Architecture of Enough Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

“The buildings & construction sector accounts for roughly 37% of global GHG emissions, as the world continues to add floor area at a pace equivalent to Paris every 5 days.” #PostCapitalism

Designing for #Degrowth: Energy Policy & the Architecture of Enough
kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/b...

The Climate Apartheid While the wealthy are able to insulate themselves from the worst effects of climate breakdown, the poor are forced to bear the costs of a crisis they did not cause.

"With every year that passes without coordinated action, the scale of the climate crisis deepens. . . . . Such levels of climate breakdown would bring about a ‘semi-dystopian’ world of extreme weather events, crop failure, geopolitical conflict, and mass migration."
tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/clim...

The Climate Apartheid While the wealthy are able to insulate themselves from the worst effects of climate breakdown, the poor are forced to bear the costs of a crisis they did not cause.

"With every year that passes without coordinated action, the scale of the climate crisis deepens. . . . . Such levels of climate breakdown would bring about a ‘semi-dystopian’ world of extreme weather events, crop failure, geopolitical conflict, and mass migration."

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/clim...

The New Abnormal Change is Here. Let’s Participate.

“We have been brainwashed into believing that material possession is the path to happiness. We have been lied to & cheated by just a few with no souls, for whom no amount of power & wealth is enough. It is time for us to say, enough.” #degrowth
geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-new-ab...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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We've understood the concept of a finite planet from at least von Humboldt's days.

Trying to foist off population as an excuse for impacts from rampant consumption, consumerism is a ploy.

Whom Is ICE Actually Recruiting? ICE has lowered standards to facilitate a massive hiring spree. Many of the new recruits are plainly unqualified. Are some also white supremacists or domestic terrorists?

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Portland, 2 hes ago...
"if you’re tear gassing little kids you lose your job, you get arrested, tried, and jailed

simply no other option in a civilized society, these goons must face consequences"
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

This was a peaceful bike ride today in Portland, Oregon. And they ended up tear gassing kids.

I've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.

The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Thread Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.

Before the 2024 election, I outlined 9 ways Trump had damaged Constitutional democracy, saying the 10th and final barrier was We the People.

We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.

NASA Releases Detailed Global Climate Change Projections - NASA NASA has released data showing how temperature and rainfall patterns worldwide may change through the year 2100 because of growing concentrations of

www.nasa.gov/news-release...

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets Nature - Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: