Thread by @jasonhickel

This is a significant development. The President of Ireland recently became the first Western head of state to call explicitly for a post-growth, steady-state, eco-social economy, with degrowth where necessary. Read his speech here:
president.ie/en/media-libra…

"Failure to achieve sufficient absolute decoupling implies that de-growth remains the only sustainable strategy for planetary survival."

How often do you hear a head of state cite John Bellamy Foster's work on ecosocialism? Powerful and refreshing. With mentions also of the brilliant Ian Gough, Kate Raworth, and Mariana Mazzucato.

"The mere placing of a new ‘green’ lens on the existing orthodox growth model will not suffice: paradigm shift, not reform, is urgently required."

"A post-capitalist, eco-social future will entail pursuing policies of de-commodification and even de-growth should the required resource decoupling not be achieved, if we are serious about the carbon mitigation that is required for a sustainable, equitable life on the planet."

"The time to act is now. The longer we wait, the more we intensify the injustice of climate change, and risk being regarded as having colluded in the destruction of the most vulnerable peoples of our human family and the biodiversity on which our planetary life depends."