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Extraction Fashion: unequal exchange and degrowth explored

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#degrow #extractionfashion

Renovables, agroecología, servicios públicos y tax the rich.

Reducción de plásticos, cemento, coche, avión y carne.

#Decrecimiento en pasos sencillos.

#Degrow

I experienced a miracle!

Or better my phone experienced one. It’s screen started to have dead pixels, the bottom became filled with an increasing zone of black pixels. At some point the #growth stopped. And one day the black pixels started to #degrow, until all disappeared and the screen is fully functional again.

Hope #economy will do the same.

Recuerdo un estudio (hiper simplista en mi opinión) que se hizo muy famoso hace años que decía que para ser más sostenibles había que irse a las ciudades, explicando por ejemplo la recogida de basuras más optimizada que en casas por el campo. Ahora vemos arder un campo completamente abandonado, sin mosaicos humanos entretejidos en los ecosistemas. Pensando que podíamos vivir desconectadas de la naturaleza para así ser más sostenibles. Cuando la naturaleza, somos también nosotras.

#Permacultura #Permaculture #Degrow #Decrecimiento

Entre los grupos de señores media 50 años o más que pululan los grupos colapsistas ha calado de una manera increíble (o no) el antiwokismo. Ciertamente era de esperar culpa mía por esperar más de esos señoros.

Y me salí de todos porque son insoportables, cuando empezó el troleo a Greta hace años me piré y solo me queda alguno pequeño de gente muy guay que hace cosas increíbles en agroecología, pero tb se cuela con alguno. La razón de promover el wokismo os preguntaréis?saquear Rusia, la linea de puntos que une ambas cuestiones no queréis saberla..

#Colapsismo #Degrow #GND #PeakOil

Si la IA china es mejor y mucho más barata ya no hacen falta todos esos centros de datos yankees que nos íbamos a comer para su IA no?

#DeepSeek #IA #DataCenters #Water #CentrosDeDatos #Degrow #Decrecimiento

Chances are better than not that **YOU** personally will be affected by a #climateDisaster before the device you're reading this on is rendered functionally obsolete.

#buildWindNow #buildSolarNow #decarbonise #degrow #noBillionaires #noOligarchs #resist #vote #JustStopOil #ExtinctionRebllion

The second biggest reduction in emissions we could get tomorrow is to halt all new power generation construction of all technologies. No more coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, or solar. No additional utility-scale energy installations of any technology.
We've got lots of energy. Get by on that.
If we won't #Degrow at least quit getting bigger every day.
Hint: those new wind turbines and solar panels aren't replacing anything. They're just more energy to waste.
After what we wasted making them.

@Xco_NieKo @Rosenrot57

Für mich beginnt #Degrow schon dann, wenn wir uns nicht länger von profitorientierten Digitalkonzernen emotional ausbeuten lassen, sondern im #Fediversum selbst organisieren. Ich glaube, dass es mehr Sinn und Glück gibt, als immer mehr materielle Güter zu konsumieren.

Es bilden sich m.E. zwei neue Grosserzählungen zum Umgang mit #Wasser: Die inklusive, monistische #Arche versus die exklusive, dualistische #Superyacht.

Über das Tal der Angst bin ich hinaus.

@fifischwarz @ThomasDamsko @boeken @bookstodon #degrow ‼️

#degrow developed nations now.

Eat only plants, fungi, & algae now.

Renewably electrify homes, industry, & transport now.

Fewer kids in high-consuming nations + gen. & sex ed., equality, & contraception everywhere now.

#ClimateEmergency #Climatedisaster #GlobalWarming #Antarctica #SeaIce #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Population #Degrowth #Vegan #Meat #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Industry #Transport

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/04/everyone-should-be-concerned-antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-levels-ever-recorded

I've enjoyed reading "Organising Responses to #ClimateChange" by Nyberg, Wright and Bowden. They make a well-argued case for the concept of #hegemony (originally conceived by #Gramsci, and developed by Laclau & Mouffe) as the root cause of our failure to shut down #FossilFuels and #degrow our economies, even as most of us now recognize fossil fuels are irreversibly heating up the planet. 1/n 🧵

This post will be about some of my favorite videos by one of my favorite Youtube essayists: Andrewism, a Caribbean Black Youtuber. I wanted to focus on Andrew's work as it's full of fantastic videos that dig into alternate ideas and movements that combat capitalist imperalist colonialist patriarchy. I consider it a good place to start, but definitely don't leave your exploration only at Andrew's videos! Dig deeper for sure.

Here's some suggestions to get one started:

#Solarpunk (Alt text for video and link: The link goes to a youtube video by Andrewism and discusses Solarpunk. The screengrab of the video shows the word Solarpunk in bright yellow where the 'o' is a sun. There is plants around the edges of the frame.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI61GHNGJM

I love this introduction video to solarpunk because it digs into the wonders of what it explores as well as some challenges inherent within the solarpunk ideology and genre. There is a rich philosophy and community building built into solarpunk that is touched upon in this video and in Andrew's follow-up videos, which can be found on Andrew's youtube channel).

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#LandBack (alt text: Link goes to a youtube video by Andrewism that discusses LandBack and Indigenous Liberation. The screengrab for the video has an Indigenous woman in her traditional clothing and face paint looking at the camera. To the left of her is a pale beige and white globe.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7msyOSrpYsg

I've seen a lot of people misunderstand the LandBack movement and what exactly it means, and Andrew digs into it and breaks it down quite well. It's made clear that this is only an introduction to a rich liberation movement too. The biggest misconception is the idea that LandBack means owning the land -- this projects capitalist ideology onto a complex, community-oriented movement, where the Land is seen as a relation not something to be owned. I like how Andrewism tears apart these misconceptions.

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#Psychology of Collapse (Alt text: Link goes to a youtube video by Andrewism that discusses the psychology that conditions people into apathy or despair about ecological and/or societal collapse. The screengrab of the video is from an animated Television show, where the young boy stands with his hands against his head and his eyes bulge outward. He is screaming while juxtaposed on flames). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPrimu4zP0o

I found the Psychology of Collapse video by accident, which introduced me to the breadth of this channel's analyses. It also really made me stop and think about how our society tries to condition us into thinking that the only way to deal with climate change is to "continue as normal" and do nothing. But that is a falsehood pushed on us by the billionaires and oilgarchs. There is a lot we can do and push for to combat climate change, but to do that we must dig into what is being conditioned into us. This video does just that.

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A Quick Guide to #PermaBlitz (Alt text: Link goes to a youtube video by Andrewism that discusses praxis concerning permablitz, a strategy to hack the environment with balls of seeds packed with nutrients to help them grow whereever they are thrown. The screengrab has a border of leaves and the center image shows tilled dirt, part of the handle of a tool, and a brown boot): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFDm7JLze5g

I wanted to include this video to show some of the Praxis videos out there to help combat capitalism, climate change, and urban decay and food deserts. The details on how to create a Blitz seed is immensely helpful, and there's solid ideas on how to implement it well. This led me down a research hole, where I looked up more ideas in other channels that discussed this further.

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We Need a #Library Economy (Alt Text: link goes to a youtube video by Andrewism that discusses what a Library Economy is and how we may build one. It is more than just books. The screengrab shows a library full of shelved books with the name of the video in yellow on the left. Juxtasposed over the right side is white silhouettes of various items). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOYa3YzVtyk

This is another praxis video that has a lovely roleplay near the middle-end that discusses what living in a library economy could look like. I personally love libraries, so having a library of things would help make more tech devices, cooking items, transportation items, tools, etc more accessible to the wider community. The more accessible a community is, the more equitable it is for all people. This video helps us envision such a future and has practical ideas on ways to push for it in present day.

In fact, in my current city, activists have pushed hard for a library of things within the city library system, and that was instituted recently! We can now check out tools, ice cream makers, cooking pots, and other random items and devices that are expensive to source. Let's hope that it works out and continues to thrive!

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Should we #Degrow? (Alt text: link goes to Andrewism's youtube video concerning #degrowth, what it is, how it may help, and what growth is and how it harms currently. The screengrab shows Black people walking around or sitting in a garden of pathways with the title of the video over the image.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrI2GBvn5Q&t=1045s

This video tackles the myth of growth. Capitalism requires growth, but growth is what is making our planet inhabitable for humanity and other species. We cannot survive if we allow "unlimited growth" to continue. This video discusses how capitalism has conditioned us to view growth as the only metric to measure efficiency and production and "healthy economies." How there cannot be "healthy economies" under capitalism's endless growth models. The video deconstructs this and explains what degrowth is and how it can aid us in creating a more just, equitable, and sustainable world, where we and nature can heal and exist in community together.

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What is #PanAfricanism? (Alt text: Link to Andrewism's video about PanAfricanism, which covers its history, many of its major thinkers, and what it has evolved into today and may evolve into in the future. The screengrab is a black background with a Black woman with large hoop earrings looking to the right. Faint zigzags are on the top and bottom frames. The title is in bold yellow with red line on top and green on bottom.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrI2GBvn5Q&t=1045s

Much of the history, struggles against colonization and racism, and culture of Pan-Africanism is rarely discussed, especially in the propogandist history courses in my home country of USA. This video discusses this idea of all Africans having connection, shared history, and shared culture across the world -- how there is a lot of divergent ideas and discussions within this wide-ranging movements. The history and discussion of the many (often divergent) views of writers within this expansive ideology is crucial. Gives a lot of folks to look into further to read more.

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There's dozens of others I could highlight -- truly go watch Andrew's channel, but I am low on energy now, so I wanted to jumpstart discussion on videos that help us envision a more accessible, equitable, sustainable, just, communal, and consensual future along with praxis to help us create it in our present.

Please share your favorite videos! I would love to watch them.

Note: I will make a separate post to discuss books. (I have a mini library to be honest - one is digital books and the other print - since I kept getting gifted them or got bundles for cheap. So I have lots of thoughts on books, but that's for another post). :)

Thank you for reading my long ramble! Stay safe and keep on community building! #CommunityCare #Learning #EducatingOurCommunities #AntiCapitalist #Anarchism #MutualAid