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    Degrowth basics

    “The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress.”

    Green growth

    “There is no empirical evidence that absolute decoupling from resource use can be achieved on a global scale against a background of continued economic growth.”

    Degrowth and the left

    “In the middle of an ecological emergency, should we be producing sport utility vehicles and mansions? Should we be diverting energy to support the obscene consumption and accumulation of the ruling class?”

    Degrowth and the South

    “Southern countries should be free to organize their resources and labor around meeting human needs rather than around servicing Northern growth.”

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    A tweet from @srslywrong: *blowing through planetary boundaries at an increasing rate with no signs of stopping based on an ideology of infinite growth and the domination of nature* me: i think the term "degrowth" is a bit too divisiveALT
    • 3 months ago 1,444 notes
    #degrowth#green growth#postgrowth#ecosocialism#solarpunk#i'll update this as i go
    probablyasocialecologist

    Kid, this is the first rain - Jeffrey Bean

  • of November. It strips off the rest
    of the leaves, reminds trees
    how to shiver. I think to Earth
    it looks like the first first rain, the water
    of the beginning, swirling down hot
    into gassy soup. The bubbling stuff
    that imagined trees to begin with, and also
    mountains, kangaroos, dolphin cartilage,
    stoplights. And you, tearing down
    hills on Arnold street, a blur
    of training wheels and streamers. And me
    in the ’80s, crunching Life cereal on the couch
    beside my night-owl mother, blue in the light
    of David Letterman’s grin.

    Try to remember, everything that is solid
    is not solid. But slowly, always melting. The road
    cracks, wrinkles like a folded map. Huge trees
    lie down, throb into pulp inside termites.
    And the ground drinks you,
    though you grow, a tall drink of water,
    going down easy. It swallows me faster
    and faster. But don’t worry. Look at
    our neighbor’s roof—those fake gray shingles
    are crumbling, growing a thick pelt
    of moss. Eventually
    we all wake up as forest.

    • 45 minutes ago 7 notes
    probablyasocialecologist

  • Israel’s role in Pinochet’s brutality is still clouded in some mystery since Israel refuses to release a full accounting of its role, but enough documents have been released to reveal a sordid relationship between Israel and the Chilean junta. Israel did not just train Chilean personnel to aid the repression of its own people. After a US arms embargo against Chile passed the US Congress in 1976, a cable from the US Embassy in Chile on April 24, 1980, acknowledged that Israel was a major arms supplier to Pinochet. Another US cable, on April 10, 1984, quoted the American undersecretary of state as saying that Israel was still one of the main weapons suppliers to the regime. This steady stream of defense equipment undercut any potential benefits of the US arms embargo because Israel was not part of the deal.

    Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

    • 1 hour ago 52 notes
    #israel#pinochet#the palestine laboratory
    arabianbutch

  • Reposting this tweet from Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة (@alijla2021):

    "Via Scott Long. For those interested, I've uploaded my entire library of books on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf and epub) so you can access them. It's a little over 1700 books, a lot of them good and important, some of them historical or political curiosities. Nearly all are in English, I'm afraid. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13 GB). And feel free to share this."

    Link to the drive

    • 2 hours ago 5,027 notes
    probablyasocialecologist
  • When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
    How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.
    The Intercept

    Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation. What’s optimal in this scenario is that fossil fuels can continue to be burned late into the 21st century, powering economic growth, jobs, and innovation. Humanity, asserts Nordhaus, can adapt to such warming with modest infrastructure investments, gradual social change, and, in wealthy developed countries, little sacrifice. All the while, the world economy expands with the spewing of more carbon.

    His models, it turns out, are fatally flawed, and a growing number of Nordhaus’s colleagues are repudiating his work. Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank chief economist and professor of economics at Columbia University, told me recently that Nordhaus’s projections are “wildly wrong.” Stiglitz singled out as especially bizarre the idea that optimization of the world economy would occur at 3.5 C warming, which physical scientists say would produce global chaos and a kind of climate genocide in the poorest and most vulnerable nations.

    […]

    The economist who has been embraced as a guiding light by the global institution tasked with shepherding humanity through the climate crisis, who has been awarded a Nobel for climate costing, who is widely feted as the doyen of his field, doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

    • 10 hours ago 47 notes
    #William Nordhaus#economics#climate change#neoliberalism
    tamarrud

  • With Netanyahu's initial reaction to the video of the three women hostages, calling it propaganda etc, it's good to remember that saving hostages is not even the least of israel's priorities right now, and as it was summed up perfectly:

    Rescued hostages who may contradict the narrative are a potential embarrassment.

    Dead hostages are capital they can spend to further justify genocide.

  • tamarrud

    "The army is concerned that further hostage releases by Hamas could lead the political leadership to delay a ground incursion or even halt it midway."

    Like they literally would rather not! And you have to think about this the next time you hear zionists advertise israel as the "safe haven" for Jewish people around the world

    • 13 hours ago 5,349 notes
    probablyasocialecologist
  • From the Gazan Laboratory to the World’s Borders: A Conversation with Jeff Halper
    The Occupied Territories are a laboratory. They’re a huge laboratory where Israel can perfect all these weapons systems, surveillance system
    CounterPunch.org

    I begin with the question How does Israel get away with it? In terms of colonizing Palestine. Here you have Israel, which conquers, takes over Palestine. It drives out three-fourths of the Palestinian people. In 1967, it imposes an occupation over the rest of Palestine that it hadn’t conquered in 1948. Sets up an apartheid regime. It settles the whole country in violation of international law. And gets away with it. How?

    And what I say in the book is that international politics is transactional. There’s no value, no ideology today. Trump was the epitome of this. There are no real alliances. There are no principles. Even though Biden talks about human rights and about how we have to live by the rules of international law, there aren’t such things that hold back powerful governments. It’s all transactional. Short term. What is my immediate advantage? How do I lever my power and get what I want? And “deal” (this is the Trump word) with other powerful parties that have what I want?

    In this kind of global system, Israel plays two major roles. One of them is, it becomes an enforcer of the system for the major political players, especially the G7 but not only those countries. Israel also has relations with Russia and with China.

    The other one I put in the framework of global capitalism. From the 1970s, the last 50 years, as this neoliberal system has taken over all the world economy—there’s no more socialist countries (China is a state capitalist system)—it’s the only system. It’s saturated all possible markets. It can’t expand. So what it has to do is turn inward. It begins to exploit internally. And then, with no regulation, there is a rise of a super-rich class, the Musks and the Gates and all the billionaires. The capitalist system has always promised you a happier life, especially for the middle class, upward mobility, and a house, and job security, and Ronald McDonald’s shining face. And all of a sudden, it’s becoming repressive. The rest of the world won’t have the standard of living we do. In this system, you need enforcement. Because not only the poor people of the world, but also the middle classes of the Global North, our kids, will not have the standard of living that we do. Now you have the Occupy movement, all kinds of Global South movements. So it has to be more repressive.

    The big powers aren’t built for repressing populations. The Pentagon builds F-35s, nuclear submarines, thermodynamic missile systems, not the kinds of weapons you need for population control. The Pentagon is geared toward conventional warfare, not population control. And that’s Israel’s niche, because it has perfected all this on the Palestinians over the last century.

    So it has the technologies of repression—we see it now in Gaza. And it has the strategies of population control that most other Western developed countries don’t have. And the experience of boots on the group for a century. So that’s one level, where Israel becomes the enforcer of global capitalism. In a very real way. Not alone, of course, but it becomes the leading force in population control.

    • 14 hours ago 54 notes
    #israel#palestine#usa#geopolitics
    mongeese

  • In the club reading poetryfoundation.com

  • edwordsmyth

    Many poets are currently demanding to have their work withdrawn from Poetry Foundation because they're engaging in censorship of writing that's critical of zionism during an ongoing zionist genocide…

    • 17 hours ago 10,836 notes
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