For me, this book didn't feel particularly revelatory because it's just common sense. Infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet, and measuring economic stability with a single metric (GDP) completely flattens and obstructs reality. @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social @avansi.bsky.social #climate
A public grocery network across Canada could save families approximately 30-45% off their grocery bill, depending on where they live—and would only cost a reasonable amount to set up. By @avansi.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social Raj Patel Anna Paskal
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Fantastic short video on how a publicly owned grocery chain would work in Canada.
Any #NZPol Food Policy policy nerds on here keen do some analysis on how this might work here in Aotearoa NZ?
"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice"
An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
Great discussion with Nick on @broadbent.bsky.social's new Class & Climate podcast. Give it a listen!
🎙New Class & Climate episode: @avansi.bsky.social + Vijay Kolinjivadi join @greeneconnet.bsky.social's Nick Pearce to take on the “sustainability class” and show why green consumption isn’t enough.
Listen here: perspectivesjournal.ca/the-sustaina...
Potentially of interest to @erikamorris.bsky.social @catsenay.bsky.social
Join us for our Montreal book launch for The Sustainability Class on May 22 at Pulp Books.
We'll be joined by Alejandra Zaga Mendes, MNA for the party Quebec Solidaire in Verdun.
@thenewpress.bsky.social
pulpbooks.ca/events/26445...
Our event with @haymarketbooks.org yesterday is now up on Youtube! It was a delight to hear what Ashley and Emma had to say about what environmentalism for everyone looks like.
@thenewpress.bsky.social @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCa...
LIVE NOW!
Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social
, and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism.
Stream here:
“In fact, the future on offer by the sustainability class is not sustainable at all. Or rather, it only promises to sustain the present order of things—which all indicators suggest is hurtling towards ecological breakdown…” #degrowth
@avansi.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/a...
Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism.
Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
How can we reject the sustainability class, and build a working class environmentalism capable of progressive change? 🌏
Join us Thu Apr 24, 2-3:30pm EDT (7-8.30pm BST) as we discuss this key climate issue:
@ashdawson.bsky.social
@avansi.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
yes, all this and more is in the first few pages of our book!
The book was on the New Books shelf at Ann Arbor’s district library. Just finishing the introduction and already I see the connections behind Trump/Musk actions in such stark focus - from gentrification, nearly complete over-class, minerals mining in Greenland! Ukraine! The world’s oceans! The moon!
Heading to the US for some book events, with @vijaykol.bsky.social and @eleanorfinley.bsky.social
"If the members of this class are to be more than a green aristocracy, they must relinquish their grip on the environmental narrative."
@kevinini.bsky.social reviews The Sustainability Class by @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social
wccalliance.org/the-sustaina...
Hanging out with Aaron and Vijay to talk about the distortion of sustainability to equal green consumption with moral implications and ask: what is to be done?
We’ll be announcing more dates soon in cities like Montreal, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto ... contact me if you’d like to help set something up.
Register for the Greenpoint library event here www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/sus...
The Sustainability Class is heading to New York City!
Come see us talk at two different events:
Greenpoint Public Library, Brooklyn
Saturday January 25, 1:00-2:30pm
Woodbine, Queens
Sunday January 26, 4:30pm
@vijaykol.bsky.social
They're going for geoengineering and extracting the very last drop.
A friend also pointed out that in this context, nuclear energy is abysmally stupid. There will be no one around to contain waste for the millennia needed—add to that geopolitical and climate disruption. But hey, SMNR will save us.
Actually it's more than that, the title is wrong... according to the report, GDP would fall by 50%, not GDP growth. That's astronomically worse. It also predicts 4 billion people will die—much much worse.
"speculative leftist conversations about the potential necessity of CCS and other 'modern' technologies appear naive and irrelevant—these are the means of our class enemies, seeking only to prolong and intensify the uses and extent of fossil fuels." -@kaibosworth.bsky.social
Everyone must read this great book by @avansi.bsky.social and @vijaykol.bsky.social !
I can also report that zoomers and Gen Zs love the term "third places". I thought this was sociology jargon and relatively obscure, but it's like it is used all the time by young people?
