#Degrowth
Well, saving money is a good reason for #NoBuy practices. But even better -- keeping things out of the landfills! This is a trend we ALL need to see more of! For whatever reason one chooses not to buy, I'm glad to see it catching on!
How the '#NoBuy2025' trend could help you get your budget on track this year
Ivana Pino, July 21, 2025
Excerpt: "Many of those who take on the challenge start by creating a list of rules for themselves that align with their lifestyles. This could include hard rules such as 'no new clothes whatsoever' or 'no new technology,' as well as rules that limit the frequency of certain purchases, such as 'yes to takeout once per month' or 'yes to one nail appointment every two weeks.'
"Others have posted online about having a 'low buy' year, which means they’re limiting the amount of purchases they’re making, rather than cutting out non-essential spending altogether."
Was ist los auf unserer Welt? Und hat das etwas mit Bildung zu tun? Hier sollen Kinder frühzeitig zu "aufgeklärten Konsumenten" erzogen werden, und am besten für's Zocken an den Börsen angefixt werden.
Andernorts, da müssen die Jüngsten zum Lebenserhalt der Familie beitragen oder in Kriegen und auf der Flucht hungern und Angst haben...
Von der #neoliberalen Fortschreibung der Aufteilung der Welt in "Nord" und "Süd".
The point is to move towards an economy in which well-being can increase while environmental damage rapidly declines, thereby decoupling prosperity from ecological impact and thus also from economical growth.
( The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism - : Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan)
-The strong coupling of growth and emissions is the reason why the only historical periods when total CO2 emissions actually did go down were periods of economic decline: (1) After collapse of Soviet Union (early 1990s), during global economic crisis (2008-2010), and during coronavirus pandemic.
1/2
( The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism )
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We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits
Pursuing growth as an end in itself, which UK Labour were voted in to do, creates imperatives such as pushing well over a billion tonnes of resources through the Suez Canal.
Which helps to make Israel “the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”.
Which makes the UK getting a third of its oil from the US deeply entwined with Israel.
If we want to stop genocide in the Levant we have to consider its underpinnings.
The researchers were surprised to find that the loss of #water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global #SeaLevel rise.
Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.
#extractivismo #capitalism #degrowth #commons
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels
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#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits
@SmudgeTheInsultCat that’s OK.
We just won’t buy anything
I heard the authors of this book about #depopulation interviewed recently on a podcast, and something seemed off about what they were saying. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but @davekarpf nails it.
It would be nice if Deep Thinkers would stop bemoaning that people aren't having "enough" kids and start implementing the obvious policies which would improve people's lives here and now and make them want to have more kids.
Pronatalism is clownish.
#degrowth
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/defusing-the-depopulation-bomb
Join us at #AOM2025 for our PDW Organising Degrowth for an Equitable World (Sun, July 27, 08:30, Bella Center A1-m2). We explore how to organize for well-being—human and non-human—beyond the growth paradigm. With Banerjee, Jermier, Lyon, Olaison, Perey, and myself. Let’s rethink organizing in planetary crisis.
Who owns the firm—and who (or what) should? At #AOM2025, the PDW on alternative ownership raised urgent questions. What if we moved beyond ownership as control and toward governance as stewardship? In my work with Robert Perey, we often ask: if nature is a stakeholder, shouldn’t she be included in ownership too? Post-capitalism may already be here—if we allow accumulation to mean regeneration, and expansion to mean care.
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We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits