I encourage you to read this by @erinremblance.bsky.social lower energy lifestyle can be more enjoyable erinremblance.substack.com/p/degrowth-y...

I agree with this line of thinking presented by @erinremblance.bsky.social here - however I get the arguments that might sound "scary" too. www.resilience.org/stories/2022...

Just this for those who might need to hear it today. With thanks to @erinremblance.bsky.social for giving me the lift I needed today. You are awesome 🙏

You don't understand! The ALP government has to support Israeli genocide, US war crimes, the destruction of the rule of law, and the north west gas shelf, because it only has a 51 seat lead on the Coalition. Something something Murdoch. They're really progressive, I swear.

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s what 4m of sea level rise looks like for England www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Palestinian infant miraculously survives an encounter with Western values.

The Trump administration announced plans to eliminate federal protections for millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, opening the door to drilling and mining in some of the nation’s last untouched landscapes.

Feed: "Episode Notes - Pullback Podcast" By: Kristen Pue on Sunday, June 1, 2025

Excellent quote from Patrick Howse about the BBC’s false impartiality of treating liars and honest people as if their contributions have equal value

Kinda wild that so many Very Serious People take the need to build data centers for AI as a given when the main use case for AI so far seems to be degrading people’s ability to read, write, think critically and connect to other human beings

As someone interested in the nexus between diet, climate & justice, I’m often surprised by the questions I get asked regarding whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) diets. I’ve realised that there’s 5 things I wish everyone knew about industrial animal agriculture and WFPB diets: (1/19)

How advanced a society is is not measured by whether it is engaged in space travel or developes artificial intelligence.

Some are triggered by #degrowth – not understanding it's a rare path still available to us to often IMPROVE people's well-being & secure planetary health & stability. They think it means pain, like recession, rather than thoughtful restructuring. See @erinremblance.bsky.social's helpful slide deck:

I've started a three-part series of articles as preparation for an upcoming podcast series on how captured economics stole our climate - and what we can do about it. As @vegardbeyer.bsky.social put it "working with the garage door open" 😅 Comments welcome. P1 here: medium.com/@katyrshield...

“So what this ultimately means is that we’re turning more of nature into dead commodities so we can sell them. So that we can grow GDP. Like, it’s literally consuming the nature on which we depend.” #Degrowth Through Social Movements - @erinremblance.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/realprog...

Here’s the first instalment of our "Fireside Carbon Chat" series, hosted by @cemusuppsala.bsky.social and available as both a podcast & on YouTube: www.cemus.uu.se/fireside/ We borrowed the "Fireside" concept to reflect our goal of fostering informal, candid conversations on climate-related issues.

1. As we face a series of great crises, every parent is confronted with the question of how much we tell our children. We don’t want to lie to them, but nor do we want to terrify them. Of course, there is no single answer. It depends in part on the child. But this thread suggests one approach. 🧵

I'm not like a degrowth guy but ngl there is something about the word "abundance" that's starting to feel red flaggy to me

“The potential negative impact of #degrowth on low-income countries arises from unequal exchange & colonial legacies. It is therefore crucial to address injustice in global economic systems & link colonial & post-development perspectives with the degrowth debate.” www.dandc.eu/en/article/d...

"What unfolds in #Palestine is the doomed legacy of Western civilisation… It is the 500yr-old history of Western racism, colonisation, & settler colonialism being replayed & reenacted in real time—a recycled legacy of brute force & sadistic violence.” open.substack.com/pub/winterwh...

“In reality, the kind of abundance these companies want is simply to fill the country up with more unnecessary, energy-intensive junk that’ll make a small subset of very rich people even richer & an already hot planet even hotter.” AI-Trained Tesla Robotaxis newrepublic.com/article/1899...

Loved talking to the brilliant @racheldonald.bsky.social on Planet Critical! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaV0...

America, watch and learn.

The article I wrote for Alliance Mag is now public! "From undermining democracy to destabilising the climate: a brief history of the neo-liberal Atlas Network The mythical Atlas carries the world on his shoulders. This one tries to put it under its thumb." www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/und...

“I am appalled by the intellectual vacuity of our neoliberal growth orthodoxy, so enthusiastically pursued by Labour. We seem to be oblivious to how the neoliberal revolution has immiserated most of our population [& our planet].” #Degrowth #PostCapitalism www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Imagine being in the 6th mass extinction & supporting a green new deal because it saves money (infinitely available at the currency issuing level) and not because it protects our rapidly overheating climate and rapidly disappearing biodiversity 🤦🏻‍♀️

GDP is a junk metric & degrowth acknowledges that. If it doesn’t make sense to measure it going up, it doesn’t make sense to measure it going down. Degrowth calls for a reduction in material and energy throughput until we are respecting the planetary boundaries. “De” in Latin also means “away from”.

Definitely, quite a few arguing that USA is embracing degrowth which is a completely different set of policies. I am sharing this by @erinremblance.bsky.social where I can www.resilience.org/stories/2022...

As someone interested in the nexus between diet, climate & justice, I’m often surprised by the questions I get asked regarding whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) diets. I’ve realised that there’s 5 things I wish everyone knew about industrial animal agriculture and WFPB diets: (1/19)

Degrowth: You Might Actually Like It open.substack.com/pub/erinremb...

Why just mention to stop burning fossil fuels? What about the big impact of animal agriculture? Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century. #GoVegan

For the first time in human history -- not just in recorded history, but in the 3+ million year existence of modern humans -- carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has just breached 430 parts per million. We are in a climate emergency.

“Increasing resource consumption is leading to deforestation, ecosystem loss & rising greenhouse gases, to name just a few problems. The only way to return the planet to a balanced steady state is to reduce excess consumption.” #Degrowth #PostGrowth #PostCapitalism www.theactuary.com/2025/03/07/b...

“So for me the most interesting thing of #degrowth is how they’re connecting all the dots… So the idea that climate justice is very connected to social justice, how climate justice is connected to global relationships between the North & South… to inequality…” news.mongabay.com/podcast/degr...

“The social metabolism was the labor & production process looked at from… its natural-reproductive aspects. The alienated social metabolism of capitalism came into direct conflict with the universal metabolism of nature, giving rise to the metabolic rift.” #degrowth monthlyreview.org/2024/09/01/t...

"The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries". It seems pretty obvious, yet no country has yet adopted a degrowth path to reduce its environmental footprint. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Post-growth should be considered only as a preliminary therapy to wean off the capitalist drug. The next step is to embrace an ecocentric approach where the well-being of ecosystems includes the human species.

So Switzerland put on a referendum and asked its population “should we have a responsible economy that is within the limits that the planet earth can support? And put this in our constitution?” And more than 70% people voted no ??? www.francetvinfo.fr/environnemen...

The term ‘capitalism’ doesn’t mean all businesses, nor does it simply mean the transaction of a good or service for money, or the allocation of capital within markets. open.substack.com/pub/erinremb... #degrowth

If we want to end poverty, we could just … end it. open.substack.com/pub/erinremb... #degrowth

Degrowth: You Might Actually Like It open.substack.com/pub/erinremb...

“We evolved because we cooperate, not despite it. So, how do we find ourselves stuck in a growth-based primarily capitalist economic system that doesn’t reflect not just human nature, but nature in general?” open.substack.com/pub/erinremb... #degrowth

Nothing to see here people. Just an ordinary day of 32,6 degrees in Spain. In November...

Drawing on @jasonhickel.bsky.social’s work, I look at how the dominant economic system we see today is the work of a very small percentage of the world’s population who are looking to gain from the exploitation and domination of others. open.substack.com/pub/erinremb... #degrowth