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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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Confronting the Dilemma of Growth—New commentary by @ProfTimJackson, #JasonHickel and #GiorgosKallis responding to misconceptions in #EcologicalEconomics. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj-commentary-limits-to-degrowth/
cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #BeyondGrowth #LimitsToGrowth #GrowthDependency #Decoupling
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@claasgefroi
Kaja Kallas - Estonia, ich schätze mal, auch neoliberal?
Egal.
Give me Kallis anytime, not Kallas!
Kallis 🙌 Kallis🙌 Kallis🙌 !
" #Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help " by #JasonHickel , #GiorgosKallis , #JuliaSteinberger #DianaUergeVorsatz et al
2022:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x -
Reversing the Freight Train: The Case for Degrowth
... Walt Rostow, who was, along with Kuznets, one of the field’s most influential early thinkers, understood growth as the foundation of the postwar world order. His Stages of Economic Growth, published in 1960, was unsubtly subtitled ‘A Non-Communist Manifesto’. According to what is now called the ‘Rostovian’ account, growth wasn’t just the solution to domestic instability in advanced industrial economies and the remedy for the backwardness of ‘traditional’ (non-industrial) societies; it was also the antidote to socialism. There was no need for revolution: the managed markets of postwar capitalism would eventually, peacefully, deliver the fruits of modernisation – a non-violent, self-reinforcing alternative to expropriation and collectivisation. It wasn’t clear, however, how traditional societies would respond to the inevitable disruption associated with integration into the global economy. ‘How,’ Rostow asked, ‘should the traditional society react to the intrusion of a more advanced power: with cohesion, promptness and vigour, like the Japanese; by making a virtue of fecklessness, like the oppressed Irish of the 18th century; by slowly and reluctantly altering the traditional society, like the Chinese?’ ...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
This reviews three recent books:
Tomorrow’s Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth
by Per Espen Stoknes.
MIT, 360 pp., £15.99, April, 978 0 262 54385 9Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel.
Windmill, 318 pp., £10.99, February 2021, 978 1 78609 121 5Post Growth: Life after Capitalism
by Tim Jackson.
Polity, 228 pp., £14.99, March 2021, 978 1 5095 4252 9The Case for Degrowth
by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.
Polity, 140 pp., £9.99, September 2020, 978 1 5095 3563 7
Archive / Paywall: https://archive.ph/2022.08.10-151410/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
#Growth #Degrowth #LimitsToGrowth #SimonKuznets #WaltRostow #PerEspenStoknes #TimJackson #JasonHickel #GiorgosKallis #SusanPaulson #GiacomoDAlisa #FedericoDemaria #Books #BookReview #LRB #LondonReview
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Reversing the Freight Train: The Case for Degrowth
... Walt Rostow, who was, along with Kuznets, one of the field’s most influential early thinkers, understood growth as the foundation of the postwar world order. His Stages of Economic Growth, published in 1960, was unsubtly subtitled ‘A Non-Communist Manifesto’. According to what is now called the ‘Rostovian’ account, growth wasn’t just the solution to domestic instability in advanced industrial economies and the remedy for the backwardness of ‘traditional’ (non-industrial) societies; it was also the antidote to socialism. There was no need for revolution: the managed markets of postwar capitalism would eventually, peacefully, deliver the fruits of modernisation – a non-violent, self-reinforcing alternative to expropriation and collectivisation. It wasn’t clear, however, how traditional societies would respond to the inevitable disruption associated with integration into the global economy. ‘How,’ Rostow asked, ‘should the traditional society react to the intrusion of a more advanced power: with cohesion, promptness and vigour, like the Japanese; by making a virtue of fecklessness, like the oppressed Irish of the 18th century; by slowly and reluctantly altering the traditional society, like the Chinese?’ ...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
This reviews three recent books:
Tomorrow’s Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth
by Per Espen Stoknes.
MIT, 360 pp., £15.99, April, 978 0 262 54385 9Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel.
Windmill, 318 pp., £10.99, February 2021, 978 1 78609 121 5Post Growth: Life after Capitalism
by Tim Jackson.
Polity, 228 pp., £14.99, March 2021, 978 1 5095 4252 9The Case for Degrowth
by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.
Polity, 140 pp., £9.99, September 2020, 978 1 5095 3563 7
Archive / Paywall: https://archive.ph/2022.08.10-151410/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
#Growth #Degrowth #LimitsToGrowth #SimonKuznets #WaltRostow #PerEspenStoknes #TimJackson #JasonHickel #GiorgosKallis #SusanPaulson #GiacomoDAlisa #FedericoDemaria #Books #BookReview #LRB #LondonReview
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Reversing the Freight Train: The Case for Degrowth
... Walt Rostow, who was, along with Kuznets, one of the field’s most influential early thinkers, understood growth as the foundation of the postwar world order. His Stages of Economic Growth, published in 1960, was unsubtly subtitled ‘A Non-Communist Manifesto’. According to what is now called the ‘Rostovian’ account, growth wasn’t just the solution to domestic instability in advanced industrial economies and the remedy for the backwardness of ‘traditional’ (non-industrial) societies; it was also the antidote to socialism. There was no need for revolution: the managed markets of postwar capitalism would eventually, peacefully, deliver the fruits of modernisation – a non-violent, self-reinforcing alternative to expropriation and collectivisation. It wasn’t clear, however, how traditional societies would respond to the inevitable disruption associated with integration into the global economy. ‘How,’ Rostow asked, ‘should the traditional society react to the intrusion of a more advanced power: with cohesion, promptness and vigour, like the Japanese; by making a virtue of fecklessness, like the oppressed Irish of the 18th century; by slowly and reluctantly altering the traditional society, like the Chinese?’ ...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
This reviews three recent books:
Tomorrow’s Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth
by Per Espen Stoknes.
MIT, 360 pp., £15.99, April, 978 0 262 54385 9Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel.
Windmill, 318 pp., £10.99, February 2021, 978 1 78609 121 5Post Growth: Life after Capitalism
by Tim Jackson.
Polity, 228 pp., £14.99, March 2021, 978 1 5095 4252 9The Case for Degrowth
by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.
Polity, 140 pp., £9.99, September 2020, 978 1 5095 3563 7
Archive / Paywall: https://archive.ph/2022.08.10-151410/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train
#Growth #Degrowth #LimitsToGrowth #SimonKuznets #WaltRostow #PerEspenStoknes #TimJackson #JasonHickel #GiorgosKallis #SusanPaulson #GiacomoDAlisa #FedericoDemaria #Books #BookReview #LRB #LondonReview