“It’s an important and timely intervention. All of this is technically feasible to achieve – we can have good lives for all within planetary boundaries – but it will require organised political struggle to make it happen.”
Boosted this for the headline, then finished reading the article and I'm goggling at this sentence:
"The Global Justice Report, published on Thursday, tries to overcome the shortcomings of mainstream approaches to the polycrisis, including the overly materialistic emphasis of traditional leftist parties, the questionable efficacy of the economic degrowth proposed by many ecologists"
1. HAHAHA at this person calling #degrowth "mainstream" -- 100% of people in my Canadian and American conversations have said, "Degrowth? Never heard of it,"
2. way to trivialize degrowth as if an ecologists-only party cooked it up during a backyard Let's Blunder Out Of Our Lane themed barbecue, like it isn't actually a multidisciplinary movement that includes economists armed with statistics
@copharynx doing my bit: I introduce students at the community college where I teach (Suffolk County NY) to the concept when I teach macroeconomics.
@akamran How do they receive it? Some enthusiastic, some hostile?
@copharynx the overall tone seems to be relief - like here's a gray-haired adult who is actually acknowledging reality.
@akamran Versus all the gray-haired adults pretending everything is normal, and refusing to mention any of the many elephants wrecking social trust and our habitable world! (Apologies to elephants)
Yay you ♥