Vanessa Spedding
@vanessaspedding.bsky.social
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Writer. Envisioning a carefully-placed twist in the tale of humanity.
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C. Rawes
about 7 hours ago
Interesting paper that reports that many degrowth policies are popular with the public, especially when degrowth isn't named. This is an important finding as much in the degrowth world seems to be obviously necessary—whatever your preferred politics.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚
about 17 hours ago
We build entire identities around avoiding pain, even though everything meaningful in life requires vulnerability.
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Superb thread 👏
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about 16 hours ago
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Clem A Kaos
about 22 hours ago
Contrary to concerns that
#degrowth
is unpopular, it received substantial support from UK and US participants. Fostering proactive engagement with global challenges and awareness of nature’s fragility could further enhance the public’s acceptance of degrowth.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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🦣 ViaCampesinaBE 🇧🇪🇪🇺🌐
9 days ago
𝗘𝗡 | 🌍📣🇻🇪 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 : La Via Campesina condemns threats of foreign intervention, and demands respect for its self-determination ➡️ […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
5 days ago
One of the reasons why an
#AMOC
shutdown “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore” is this study:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here:
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
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Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
https://youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?si=uQOoLVEwet_7hxDY
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
6 days ago
This is corporate manslaughter! Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people. Recent cutting-edge work by
#climate
scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Shell ready to invest more in Italy if drilling permits unlocked
Shell is ready to invest more in Italy to boost hydrocarbon production, the head of the energy group's Italian unit said on Wednesday, urging the government to allow new drilling.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-ready-invest-more-italy-if-drilling-permits-unlocked-2025-11-26/
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv)
9 days ago
Sustainability researchers endorse post-growth policy instruments for the European Union This study surveyed 1,734 sustainability policy researchers from 97 countries on the potential, feasibility, and dependence on economic growth of 88 policy instruments from post-growth litera #sociology
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A breath of fresh air - such a relief to see sanity prevail.
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Katie Surma
11 days ago
Independent journalism is crucial for environmental protection. But, journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout—from mines to ports and power plants—in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2311202...
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How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders - Inside Climate News
Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112025/china-environmental-journalism-suppression-africa/
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Degrowth Collective
10 days ago
McKibben in his latest book (2025). Then he goes on to explain degrowth cannot happen fast enough because people cannot change their lifestyles fast enough. He insists we must do solar and wind fast instead. Yeah, BUT we must also decrease the level of production and consumption (degrowth).
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Jeremy Corbyn
10 days ago
Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began. Why has this disappeared from the headlines? The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Prem Sikka
about 1 month ago
150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year. Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die. NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.
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Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year
Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/31/nearly-150000-aged-90-and-above-wait-12-hours-england
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
15 days ago
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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HT4Ecosocialism
14 days ago
The mass murder continues, as expected.
#GazaGenocide
#FreePalestine
! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks
Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza City
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/20/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-ceasefire-khan-younis
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CIFOR-ICRAF
15 days ago
New research shows the world is nearing critical climate tipping points, from coral reef collapse to risks in the Amazon and major ocean currents. But positive shifts in renewables and sustainable farming offer a path forward. Read more:🔗 https://bit.ly/4pmzY9p
#Trees4Resilience
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Giorgos Kallis
16 days ago
New policy brief by Research and Degrowth and
@waronwant.bsky.social
out now: "Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion"
degrowth.org/blog/2025/11...
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Clothing the Planet Within Limits – degrowth.org
https://degrowth.org/blog/2025/11/10/clothing-the-planet-within-limits/
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This is really good.
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15 days ago
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World
15 days ago
EXTRAORDINARY warm night ‼️DOZENS of tropical nights in Greece and Turkey MIn 19.0 Alexandroupolis November hottest night MINIMUMS up to 18C in Bulgaria,16C in Russia and Ukraine NOVEMBER HIGH MINIMUMS RECORDS🇷🇺 11.6 Konstantinovsk 11.5 Cimljansk 10.4 Nizhny-Chir 8.7 Pugacev
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
15 days ago
Inspired by Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, Dr. Roberta Millstein reexamines this philosophy in light of contemporary ecology, sharing new interpretations of interdependence, land health, & the “biotic community,” offering a fresh take on how these ideas can guide modern conservation & restoration policy
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Aldo Leopold and Environmental Stewardship | Dr. Roberta Millstein Lecture
YouTube video by Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
https://youtu.be/krJ_4QDioqg
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Jason Hickel
16 days ago
The
@theguardian.com
runs with "tensions rise", to describe what is in fact unilateral US aggression against a country that poses zero threat to the US or to anyone else.
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Ian@collapseaphorisms
21 days ago
“Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country’s climate minister told Reuters.” (Reuters)
#GoodLuckWithThat
#collapse
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21 days ago
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Deep, personal, frank, meaningful. Tim Jackson's Foreword bodes well for this new book, The Meaning of Growth, by Richard Douglas
cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson's Foreword to Richard Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth
This is an amended version of Tim Jackson's Foreword for Richard McNeill Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric an ...
https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-quest-for-prosperity/
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Phil Free
22 days ago
“In mainstream discourse, green capitalism is promoted as a way to ‘decouple’ economic growth from environmental degradation. The Global North’s ‘clean’ economies depend on dirty production lines & deforested zones in the Global South.”
#PostCapitalism
#Degrowth
open.substack.com/pub/blacklod...
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Ecology and Class Struggle
Part 3 of 5: Revolutionary Eco-Strategy
https://open.substack.com/pub/blacklodges/p/ecology-and-class-struggle-229?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Áine ☽𖤐☾
23 days ago
Well, you can start by shutting down data centers instead of building more in the desert... Duh.
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👏👏👏
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23 days ago
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Tom Graham 🫘
23 days ago
Viva Polanski!
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Absolutely - and it’s exactly the way to do it. Go
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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23 days ago
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Such a neat and powerful summary. Share far and wide!
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Research & Degrowth International
23 days ago
💡👚Policy Brief: Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion. Authored by Marula Tsagkari. It’s time to reimagine how we produce and consume clothing. 🔗Link to the full policy brief here:
degrowth.org/projects/pol...
#policybrief
#degrowth
#fashion
#exploitation
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Peter Lipman
23 days ago
A response to Daniel Susskind: Degrowth – a reckoning
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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A response to Daniel Susskind: Degrowth – a reckoning
Given the gravity of the present situation, we should be very careful about what we think we know about growth. if I’m wrong about degrowth, then you can kick-start the economy back again to continue ...
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-11-11/a-response-to-daniel-susskind-degrowth-a-reckoning/
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Cry for the Earth
23 days ago
Science historian J.-B. Fressoz: "Thinking that the rise of clean energy sources is enough to help the climate is naive."
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/10/denken-dat-de-opkomst-van-schone-energiebronnen-genoeg-is-om-het-klimaat-te-helpen-is-naief-a4909631
(Dutch, paywall?)
#ClimateEmergency
#degrowth
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‘Denken dat de opkomst van schone energiebronnen genoeg is om het klimaat te helpen, is naïef’
Aan de hand van historische voorbeelden laat de Franse historicus zien hoe de opkomst van een nieuwe energiebron de vraag naar de oude juist kan laten stijgen. "Binnen de elektriciteitssector is er we...
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/10/denken-dat-de-opkomst-van-schone-energiebronnen-genoeg-is-om-het-klimaat-te-helpen-is-naief-a4909631
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
24 days ago
Wars affecting every corner of the globe, military spending at a record high, and 1.5 degrees breached. Our
#COP30
preview wonders what, if anything, will be delivered on conflict, climate and militarism.
ceobs.org/cop30-what-t...
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COP30: What to expect on conflict, climate and militarism - CEOBS
COP30 is taking place against a backdrop of wars and rising military spending, what will it deliver on conflict, climate and militarism?
https://ceobs.org/cop30-what-to-expect-on-conflict-climate-and-militarism
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Unsplintering.bsky.social
26 days ago
Review of Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito's book, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto: "Growth has inevitable limits... reached. Better path is not to squeeze last bits... but learn again how to do less on less... participate again in abundance of world"
thewaywepractice.substack.com/p/personal-d...
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Personal Degrowth
3 notes toward a manifesto
https://thewaywepractice.substack.com/p/personal-degrowth
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The Scales ⚖️
25 days ago
Weirdly, this still hasn't been picked up by any mainstream 'news' Editors. You'd think this would be a pretty massive story, right?
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The Scales ⚖️
about 1 month ago
Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide. The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵
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Alberto Cottica
30 days ago
THREAD 1/n Inspired by Herman Daly, a new paper lists seven policy directions for cities to thrive beyond economic growth. They are not speculative, all are being tried somewhere or other.
#cities
#postgrowth
#degrowth
#economics
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Richard Allan
about 1 month ago
Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2502290-your-flight-emissions-are-way-higher-than-carbon-calculators-suggest/
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 1 month ago
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
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Sarah Murphy
about 1 month ago
Compare and contrast. Absentee MP -v- his constituency. Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood. He really couldn’t give a shit. He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream. (iPaper & BBC)
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Ecoanarchist
2 months ago
This is why I’m an anarchist!
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Phil Free
about 1 month ago
“As long as the logic of capital accumulation remains intact, technological innovation will continue to deepen, not alleviate, the social & ecological challenges we face.” Polycrisis, or the ‘Madness of Economic Reason’ -
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/polycrisis-or-the-madness-of-economic-reason
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The Scales ⚖️
about 1 month ago
The Green party is polling 25% with all voters under 50, & 39% among 18 to 24-year-olds. If that translates to votes, it could mean senior partnership in a coalition with others. A key advantage the Greens have over
yourparty.uk
, is the name: climate is THE number one issue for this age bracket.
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊
about 1 month ago
Degrowth is the only solution to
#GlobalWarming
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#EndNecroCapitalistAddiction
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UK Green Stats
about 1 month ago
40% with 18-24 year olds, according to the new poll from
@yougov.co.uk
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North Lancashire Green Party
about 1 month ago
When
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
was elected leader of the Green Party, he said: "We’re not here just to be disappointed by Labour. We’re here to replace you." Among voters under 50, its already happening! 🥳💚
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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad
about 1 month ago
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
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Fascinating and insightful read - recommended 😊
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