Swedish private equity group takes 42% stake in Yorkshire Water. Thames Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, South West Water and Wessex Water gutted by PE. All have criminal convictions, dump sewage in rivers, profiteer. 90% of England's water is foreign owned. Expect more looting.

I agree. If only more were like him. But it’s heartening even to hear one voice of strength and morality in these times.

“The argument that conceives of endless economic growth/accumulation as the driving force in Green capitalist solution to climate change is tied to the reduction of the Earth System emergency to climate change alone.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth monthlyreview.org/articles/eco...

“With clear anti-capitalist stances, #degrowth repoliticises the environmental question, pointing out that ‘green growth’—economic growth that doesn’t destroy the planet (as it did so far)—is a contradiction in terms & nothing more than an unattainable myth.” www.themintmagazine.com/stop-blaming...

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

“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 open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...

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.

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

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

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

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

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 😊

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 😊

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

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.

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.

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…

'... 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. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

Profit has no respect for life, whether it is human life or any other species.  We have every reason to wish to dismantle an economic system that has become an existential threat

It really is socialism or barbarism, that is the choice, because capitalism - a system based on greed - will always end up promoting fascism in the end. #Socialistsunday

What a wasted vision ousting Corbyn for this: 18 months of tortured failure, little-man ambition laying the groundwork for fascist revival instead of proper socialist principles and deep-rooted, systemic change. Pathetic! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Such important work… always worth revisiting and re-assimilating. The way forward is clear.

The threat of imminent ecological system failures now acknowledged by the UK’s intelligence agencies! Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas discuss this new report. www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Just in case we forget. #bloom

Scotland Blazes a Post-Growth Trail. Community Wealth Building Act 2026 is working through Scottish Parliament. First of its kind legislation designed to generate, circulate and retain wealth in local communities -rather than outside of the community. degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/scotland-b...

Yep great video (and reminds me to revisit Mollison’s seminal ‘Permaculture: a designer’s manual’)

"[...] the magnitude of the Poly-crisis must be stressed. We are so far beyond sustainable and just levels of production and consumption that the resulting alarming global problems cannot possibly be solved unless there is enormous degrowth" ... 1/3

“Since 1971, the Earth has accumulated 500 times more energy than the world’s total primary energy consumption in 2024. 93% of this heat is currently being stored in the oceans, a thermal debt that will eventually be paid.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

Government moves to open up access to soil data in a big win for campaigners. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525046...

Let's talk about who funds Reform. Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been. Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform. Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?

This is brilliant! “Outsmarting the descendants of its colonial captors, Japanese knotweed destabilises human-centred understandings of value, life and land. It invites new modes of being and relating in the more-than-human world.”

Incisive and powerful words from Jonathon Porritt. ‘Tony Blair: Once a war criminal…’ www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

UK Energy Strategy written by a Degrowth Communist

Excellent, thoughtful and important thread.