In welcher Gesellschaft wollen wir 2048 leben? Und wie kommen wir dahin?
Mit @NeueOekonomie und sehr vielen Expert*innen arbeiten wir seit zwei Jahren an einer sozial-ökologischen Vision für eine #Zukunftfueralle. Jetzt erscheint sie als Buch. #openaccess und mit Crowdfunding /1
Stell Dir vor, es ist das Jahr 2048.
Wie bewegst Du Dich fort?
Was isst Du?
Wie verbringst Du Deine Zeit?
Wie und was arbeitet Du?
Und über deine eigene Situation hinaus – wie könnte diese Zukunft aussehen?
Wie kann sie gerecht, ökologisch und machbar sein – für alle? /2
Das Buch »Zukunft für alle« zeigt mögliche Antworten auf diese Fragen auf und stellt basierend auf den Ergebnissen von zwölf Zukunftswerkstätten mit knapp 200 Vordenker*innen eine Vision für das Jahr 2048 dar. /3
Das Buch "Zukunft für alle. Eine Vision für 2048" könnt ihr hier vorbestellen und unerstütztn und so ermöglichen, dass es gratis für alle als PDF und sehr günstig als Buch veröffentlicht werden kann. /4
Fossil fuel companies “have not simply been lying to the public, they have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors should bring that crime to the public’s attention.”
"The paper is rooted in part in the growing body of evidence fossil fuel companies knew of the harm their products caused and misled the public about them." @BenFranta
While the energy and material used for the production of bicycles increased over recent decades, in line with carbon emissions, life expectancy decreases.
One reason are changing materials.
As we argue in The Future is Degrowth @VersoBooks:
"As long as the primacy of economic efficiency – rather than criteria of sustainability and utility – dominates design processes and investments in technical infrastructures, this transformation will not succeed."
It starts by taking stock of the post-Covid situation, in which the "engines of this unjust status quo—capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, and various fundamentalisms—are making a bad situation worse"
And then analyses how the "energy transition" plays out differently in the Global South and the Global North
While postgrowth and degrowth are often defined as the “planned” reduction of production and consumption, there is little engagement with what “planning beyond growth” could look like.
There is a wide acceptance, at the abstract, most general, even definitional level, that degrowth involves planning or amounts to a planned transition. 2/
However, there is strikingly little explicit engagement with, debate on, and research into what exactly ‘planning for degrowth’ could look.
Scientists for civil disobedience and against the eviction of #Luetzerath
Here's our open letter with @SciReb_Germany calling to stop the eviction of this village that is blocking the expansion of one of Europe's biggest lignite mines.
Please sign, spread, support, come. 🧵
We cannot accept the decision that the village of Lützerath is to be sacrificed to the open-cast lignite mine Garzweiler II.
As scientists we say: In view of the climate catastrophe, not a single tonne of fossil fuels should actually be subsidised and burnt worldwide any longer.
The destruction of Lützerath is symbolic of the ignoring of scientific findings by political decision-makers.