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Why have there been so many #climate deals yet so little progress in slowing global warming? 📈
🇩🇪 has the most ambitious #sustainability plans in Europe. @kristina_bogner and I show that an overemphasis on techno-economic solutions may still be hindering progress. A 🧵 (1/6)
🇩🇪 has the most ambitious #sustainability plans in Europe. @kristina_bogner and I show that an overemphasis on techno-economic solutions may still be hindering progress. A 🧵 (1/6)
German policies have heavily emphasized the need to find technological solutions. They feature relatively little reflection on how well these match to societal context, system dynamics, with little participation of civil society.
But these are just words, what about deeds? (2/6)
But these are just words, what about deeds? (2/6)
Deeds follow words. We see that most funded research heavily emphasizes technological progress. Funding mechanisms are build on policy agendas, so this makes total sense. Research on social issues gets sidelined to "complementary research" instead of being an integral part. (3/6)
A thread of my reactions to @Leigh_Phillips attack on degrowth in his @_ourEconomy article. #degrowth #postgrowth #ecologicaleconomics #Socialism
It is an example of the way pro-growth socialist environmentalism often dresses up social democratic & capitalist ideas in radical rhetoric. Most of the logic undermines socialism as much as degrowth.
For example Phillips argues that CFCs got regulated away, and we didn't have to give up hairspray. For him, this is an example of how regulating markets can lead to absolute decoupling. Ergo we don't need degrowth. But by the same logic, we don't need socialism either.
