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"My editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
Cannot confirm⬆️what @JKSteinberger reported, but... I did check and:
NO BIG MEDIA covered the momentous event #BeyondGrowth2023 by the @Europarl_EN , @EP_ThinkTank, @EU_Commission in Brussels.
No media. 1/3
Cannot confirm⬆️what @JKSteinberger reported, but... I did check and:
NO BIG MEDIA covered the momentous event #BeyondGrowth2023 by the @Europarl_EN , @EP_ThinkTank, @EU_Commission in Brussels.
No media. 1/3
Not @el_pais , not @repubblica not @FT , not even @ftbrussels , not @guardian. Not @DIEZEIT.
Silence.
Silencing alternatives to the religion of continuous growth (that is killing all of us) is the new mandatory religion.
Many scientists gathered to find sustainable... 2/3
Silence.
Silencing alternatives to the religion of continuous growth (that is killing all of us) is the new mandatory religion.
Many scientists gathered to find sustainable... 2/3
...alternatives, #BeyondGrowth, to live together on our Earth.
But all their voices and science is silenced. With the peculiar swindle (ethically violent) of the media silence.
The only way to make people know is you: RT, tell others. 3/3
But all their voices and science is silenced. With the peculiar swindle (ethically violent) of the media silence.
The only way to make people know is you: RT, tell others. 3/3
As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯.
🧵, please RT.
#BeyondGrowth2023
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🧵, please RT.
#BeyondGrowth2023
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For 3 full days the EU parliament hosted thousands of scientists, activists and policy-makers charting a future beyond growth. The talks & discussions were recorded and are now available to all. Thousands attended, thousands more followed online.
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beyond-growth-2023.eu/programme/
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beyond-growth-2023.eu/programme/
Topics covered planetary boundaries, trade, finance, fiscal policy, global South, decolonisation, gender, justice, well-being, social policies. Every panel included major advances in understanding. Together, the conference represents a monumental coming of age of post-growth.
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I have spent the past 3 days in the European Parliament for the #BeyondGrowth2023 conference. Here are some of my main takeaways (as a Global South, feminist, decolonial, ecosocialist, social scientist).
I understand that it was a very powerfully simbolic experience to be talking about degrowth and postgrowth within the walls of Eurocentric power guided by the mantra of growth. But contrary to my fellow European colleagues, that building represents a lot harm and violence to me.
The #BeyondGrowth2023 shows that people are frustrated by the lack of response of politicians - especially ones that deviate so much from the evidence and recs of the scientists. Several of them were booed, while scientists got standing ovations for their courage to speak out.
The green capitalist state in the Global North is a derisking state!
in a new paper, I examine the political embrace of derisking in European/US green industrial policy, and consider the implications for decarbonisation.
osf.io/preprints/soca…
in a new paper, I examine the political embrace of derisking in European/US green industrial policy, and consider the implications for decarbonisation.
osf.io/preprints/soca…
derisking has mutated from co-producing investible infrastructure to investible productive capacity;
- that is precisely how the European Commission @ThierryBreton thinks of it
- that is precisely how the European Commission @ThierryBreton thinks of it
I elaborate the concept of the derisking state in response to (valid) critique about its limitations, specify the structural constraints that render the post-neoliberal (@zeithistoriker) state a derisking state
🧵 Over the last three days, two conferences concerning the future have taken place.
Naturally, the only one the British media covered was the meeting of cranks, halfwits (hello Lee), racists, neo-fascists, far-right christian fundamentalists and assorted Tory ministers.
But…
Naturally, the only one the British media covered was the meeting of cranks, halfwits (hello Lee), racists, neo-fascists, far-right christian fundamentalists and assorted Tory ministers.
But…
…there was another conference.
The #BeyondGrowth2023 conference took place in the European Parliament & was a joyous meeting of many of the brightest, most progressive thinkers, political leaders, academics, scientists, economists and activists.
The conference…
The #BeyondGrowth2023 conference took place in the European Parliament & was a joyous meeting of many of the brightest, most progressive thinkers, political leaders, academics, scientists, economists and activists.
The conference…
… aimed to discuss and co-create policies for sustainable prosperity in Europe, based on a systemic and transformative approach to economic, social and environmental sustainability and its encompassing governance framework. #Degrowth
The organisers aim was to…
The organisers aim was to…
The #BeyondGrowth #BeyondGrowth2023 has just finished, and the working class has barely been mentioned outside of discussions relating to trade unions - which highlights, yet again, that post growth/degrowth still has no idea on how to approach social class 🧵
1. Yes, trade unions are integral to mass movements and mobilisation. But what about those who aren't in trade unions, or who aren't in work? How can post growth build a movement amongst the most disenfranchised and alienated, which those outside of unions are?
2. There is also a tendency to refer to the global North's 'working class' with no distinction between class experiences by country.... When you say the working class, who are you referring to? There's loads of us!
👋That moment when you want to write down a quote from @ProfTimJackson, but end up taking down the entire speech... Here a 🧵with some snippets.
#BeyondGrowth2023
#BeyondGrowth2023
"The relentless pursuit of more blinds us to human nature. It prioritizes, it institutionalizes voracious greed, but it neglects our deepest needs [...]. It precipitates a casual swipe right consumerism that promises the world but leaves us ultimately endlessly unsatisfied."
"Characterizing prosperity as the relentless accumulation of wealth is nothing more than a denial of our humanity, a denial of the interdependent web of life on planet earth, a denial of death. It appears to offer us consolation, but cannot extinguish the anguish of our souls."
#BeyondGrowth2023 Closing Plenary
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"A young woman asked me, what does a post-growth economy have to offer to a generation fearful for their future?"
"Characterising prosperity, as the relentless accumulation of wealth is nothing more than a denial of our humanity,
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"A young woman asked me, what does a post-growth economy have to offer to a generation fearful for their future?"
"Characterising prosperity, as the relentless accumulation of wealth is nothing more than a denial of our humanity,
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a denial of the interdependent web of life on planet Earth. Or denial of death."
"The foundation for all our prosperity, the foundation for all our wealth....And something quite surprising follows from this to deliver prosperity as health, we need an economy whose guiding
a denial of the interdependent web of life on planet Earth. Or denial of death."
"The foundation for all our prosperity, the foundation for all our wealth....And something quite surprising follows from this to deliver prosperity as health, we need an economy whose guiding
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principle is care."
"But systematically capitalism externalise the burden of care in much the same way that it externalised nature....By counting the wrong things, by valuing the wrong things, by focusing on narrow deficit, definitions of productivity that privilege profits
principle is care."
"But systematically capitalism externalise the burden of care in much the same way that it externalised nature....By counting the wrong things, by valuing the wrong things, by focusing on narrow deficit, definitions of productivity that privilege profits
#BeyondGrowth2023 FP14
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We need to think cradle to cradle....otherwise:
"When you make the wrong things perfectly then they are perfectly wrong"
"It starts with the wrong understanding of sustainability to me its the needs of the present generation without
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We need to think cradle to cradle....otherwise:
"When you make the wrong things perfectly then they are perfectly wrong"
"It starts with the wrong understanding of sustainability to me its the needs of the present generation without
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compromising the needs of future ones.....think about when you come home to your child, ....don't you want to be good for your child? Europe wants to be climate neutral, think about coming home to your child and telling them you are child neutral today....don't you want to
compromising the needs of future ones.....think about when you come home to your child, ....don't you want to be good for your child? Europe wants to be climate neutral, think about coming home to your child and telling them you are child neutral today....don't you want to
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be good for your child? You can only be climate neutral if you don't exist....did you ever see a tree being climate neutral? A tree is good for the climate so do we want to be more stupid than a tree?"
- Michael Braungart @circulareconomy
beyond-growth-2023.eu/lecture/focus-…
be good for your child? You can only be climate neutral if you don't exist....did you ever see a tree being climate neutral? A tree is good for the climate so do we want to be more stupid than a tree?"
- Michael Braungart @circulareconomy
beyond-growth-2023.eu/lecture/focus-…
we're now discussing Finance and Nature as an Asset Class at the #BeyondGrowth2023 - with Vandana Shiva, Fred Hache, WWF (!) Marie Toussaint and other.
is the question 'how do we finance the protection of nature' the right one?
is the question 'how do we finance the protection of nature' the right one?
MT: 'we're opening new frontiers for capital accumulation, in the debt-for-nature swaps in Ecuador's Galapagos Island...betting on capital to solve the problems capital has created'
a reminder that in Europe, France is driving the Nature as an Asset Class process - as we examined w @nssylla in the recent One Forest Summit in Gabon #BeyondGrowth2023
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wall-…
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wall-…
#BeyondGrowth2023 Plenary 3
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1st pillar sufficiency - policy measures and daily practices, the order in which these two concepts appear is very important, policies trigger daily practices.
2nd pillar of sufficiency - these policies aim at avoiding upfront use of all natural
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1st pillar sufficiency - policy measures and daily practices, the order in which these two concepts appear is very important, policies trigger daily practices.
2nd pillar of sufficiency - these policies aim at avoiding upfront use of all natural
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resources, so sufficiency is not only about energy, but it is also about materials, land use, water use, etc.
3rd pillar of sufficiency - these policies should aim at delivering wellbeing for all in the original definition.
Fit for 55 did not deliver on our climate,
resources, so sufficiency is not only about energy, but it is also about materials, land use, water use, etc.
3rd pillar of sufficiency - these policies should aim at delivering wellbeing for all in the original definition.
Fit for 55 did not deliver on our climate,
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is unlikely to deliver on the energy justice that we all ought to just transition that we all talk about.
4th pillar of sufficiency - considering planetary boundaries why today our policies are climate neutrality targets: we do not consider our cumulative emissions
is unlikely to deliver on the energy justice that we all ought to just transition that we all talk about.
4th pillar of sufficiency - considering planetary boundaries why today our policies are climate neutrality targets: we do not consider our cumulative emissions
Morning plenary on sufficiency & consumption at #BeyondGrowth2023 with superstars @ysaheb & @timparrique 🤩🤩🤩
Dr Yamina Saheb alongside the IPCC's definition of sufficiency, the culmination years of her work, in the EU Parliament hemicycle. #BeyondGrowth2023
Standing ovation for Yamina, who ended her talk with this slide from the IPCC SYR, the story of her family, her mother who still lived mostly in a stable climate, herself experiencing the turn, her son facing all the dangers. 💔💔💔
This is my story too.
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
This is my story too.
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
#BeyondGrowth2023
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko on GDP:
"The 'world' that's constructed is a world that was invented by the exploitation and the plunder by the Minority World on the Majority World."
This continues today even as part of the Green Agenda
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko on GDP:
"The 'world' that's constructed is a world that was invented by the exploitation and the plunder by the Minority World on the Majority World."
This continues today even as part of the Green Agenda
Ritu Verma: "GDP is a Colonial construct and only has a + Button"; "GDP per capita is what divides countries"
"You cannot use income to measure welfare" according to Kuznets the originator of the concept of GDP in 1934
#ethicaleconomics
beyond-growth-2023.eu/lecture/focus-…
"You cannot use income to measure welfare" according to Kuznets the originator of the concept of GDP in 1934
#ethicaleconomics
beyond-growth-2023.eu/lecture/focus-…
It's long overdue that #hyprocity was called out. Thank you @Liepollo9 for doing so today.
At the #BeyondGrowth conference in Brussels, with another 2000 participants, curious to see what's the discourse in the new geopolitics
Last time I was here at a large scale event, in 2018/19, it was for Sustainable Finance, where Europe was organising to discipline carbon capital.
4 years and a US IRA later, that political project is dead.
4 years and a US IRA later, that political project is dead.
first joyful moment, greeting two fierce African feminist/tax justice activists here to challenge Europe's 'derisking Africa'/WallStreetConsensus
