#green-growth — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #green-growth, aggregated by home.social.
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"The ecomodernist does not invent numbers. They select them. Show per-capita emissions instead of totals. Show a few countries instead of the global panel. Show the last decade instead of the long run. Show production-based emissions instead of consumption-based ones. Each of these choices can be defended. Together they create a very particular picture."
https://hansstegeman.substack.com/p/the-flattering-mirror
One for @gerrymcgovern ?
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Gardeners Are Noticing Plants Growing Tall but Weak This Season, And One Common Habit Could Be the Cause https://www.allforgardening.com/1715190/gardeners-are-noticing-plants-growing-tall-but-weak-this-season-and-one-common-habit-could-be-the-cause/ #garden #gardener #gardening #GreenGrowth #RapidGrowth #SupportTissues
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Introductory overview article (features me).
Decoupling emissions: Can we really have green growth? https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/102270/decoupling-emissions-economic-growth/
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Watch: The race for clean tech innovation – who will lead the next wave of green growth?
As nations vie for dominance in the "Net Zero" economy, the next breakthrough in carbon capture, long-duration storage, and green hydrogen is heating up. We take a deep dive into the startups and superpowers currently leading the charge into the next wave of sustainable economic growth.
#CleanTech #Innovation #GreenGrowth #Sustainability #FutureTech #ClimateSolutions
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„Die Geschichte einer +3°C-Zukunft“ – Eine Studie über Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Treibhausgasemissionen
Als gründliche empirische Studie zu den Möglichkeiten einer Entkoppelung von Wirtschaftswachstum und Treibhausgasemissionen kenne ich bisher nur die Arbeit der Gruppe um Dominik Wiedenhofer und Helmut Haberl (2020, 2020). Spanische Forschende um Juan Infante Amate haben sich jetzt als Historiker ausführlich mit dem Zusammenhang von Emissionen und Wirtschaftswachstum seit den ersten Jahrzehnten der Industrialisierung beschäftigt. Ihre Arbeit zeigt, wie unrealistisch die Annahme ist, dass sich die Begrenzung der globalen Erhitzung und weiteres Wirtschaftswachstum vereinbaren lassen. […] -
Lesetipp: Ist es möglich, dass die #Wirtschaft weiter wächst und gleichzeitig #Klima und #Umwelt geschützt werden? Eine Debatte, fünf Perspektiven – etwa von David Hofmann (IÖW) bei @bpb
Weitere Beiträge im Dossier u. a. von
@MatthiasSchmelzer @ckemfert▶ https://www.bpb.de/themen/wirtschaft/wirtschaftspolitik/552642/klima-und-wachstum/ #Postwachstum #Degrowth #GreenGrowth
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India is officially a Global Solar Powerhouse! Manufacturing capacity surged to 144 GW in 2025—doubling in just one year!
India has just rewritten the script for the global energy transition! Union Minister Pralhad Joshi announced that India's solar module manufacturing capacity skyrocketed to 144 GW in 2025, marking a staggering 128% year-on-year growth.
#solarindia #renewableenergy #makeinindia #greengrowth #solarmanufacturing
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"Capitalist ecomodernist visions require a very rapid and large-scale buildout of zero-carbon energy infrastructure. But, under capitalism, investment and production is organized around whatever is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for achieving social and ecological goals. This creates a problem for the energy transition, because while renewables are increasingly cheap, fossil fuels are three times more profitable, in large part because they are more conducive to monopoly power (Christophers 2025). So, capital continues to flow to fossil fuels and we get inadequate investments in clean energy. In recent months, several major financial firms have abandoned their low-carbon investments because they are not profitable enough. In other words, ecomodernism’s commitment to capitalism ultimately works against its ecological objectives. This may help explain why ecomodernists tend to promote nuclear power, because an energy grid dominated by capital-intensive forms of energy production with high barriers to entry is more likely to be profitable.
The green transition ultimately cannot be left in the hands of capital. It will require substantial public finance, public works, industrial policy and planning in order to build out necessary renewable energy capacity, as well as to undertake other low-profit or zero-profit activities such as expanding public transit, insulating buildings, and regenerating ecosystems. Furthermore, increasing these activities cannot be done while national productive capacities are already maxed out by capitalist production. It will necessarily require scaling down less-necessary production, to liberate labour, engineers, resources etc to be remobilized for this purpose. Here too, this is not something that can be achieved within capitalism. Capital will not voluntarily scale down profitable forms of production."
#Ecomodernism #Ecosocialism #GreenGrowth #Capitalism #GreenTransition
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COP30, das Weltklima und die zuversichtlichen, hoffnungsvollen Aussichten und Entwicklungen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2nrM-Y3hl0
#CO2 #Emission #ReboundEffect #China #Klimakonferenz #Klimakonferenzen #Belém #Studien #Prognosen #Prognosnis #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Renewables #ReboundEffekt #Innovation #Energieverbrauch #Decoupling #GreenGrowth #Steigend #Rising #KI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Streaming #AirConditioning #ClimateCrisis #Consumption #Belém #IAE #Realism #Realismus #Future #Politics
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⚠️ Join our (legal) action on the 18th of November at the opening of the Raw Materials Week:
BREAK THE MYTH OF GREEN MINING – HOLD CORPORATE POWER ACCOUNTABLE!
Europe’s #greengrowth promises are being buried under a mountain of lies and #deregulation In 2025, the so-called “energy transition” is turning into a battlefield - where corporate lobbies, far-right factions, and military interests march together to plunder our lands and silence dissent. Activists are harassed, access to EU documents denied, and entire communities sacrificed for “strategic" #mining projects shrouded in secrecy under the Defence Omnibus.
The Myth of Green Mining is the new #propaganda weapon: marketed as clean, but built on polluted rivers, displaced peoples, and human rights abuses. The minerals extracted in the name of climate action too often feed the war machine, not the wind turbine.
We refuse to stand by as #democracy, environmental justice, and Indigenous rights are dismantled. Join our protest to demand:
- Transparency in all mining and supply chains
- Corporate accountability for environmental and social harm
- Democratic decision-making, not decisions made behind closed doorsEurope’s "credibility is on the line. The time for polite petitions is over - the time for organised #resistance is now. No #greenwashing No #militarisation No #impunity
Join the Signal group for the demonstration:
https://signal.group/#CjQKIGHxTEWkoQB9y23-WRkMWkkTmYmmGpgN6X7z5Ckj_rTKEhBleh4yIzTdCkF8yo__ee_TN.B.: Hashtags were added-on just now :)
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Green tech provides the cheapest energy? Great, we'll use it to pull more oil from the ground.
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The 100 megawatt-hour (MWh) Rondo Heat Battery began commercial operations late last week for oil and gas company Holmes Western.(...)
Rondo’s heat batteries require only six hours of the lowest-cost electricity each day to provide 24/7 heat.
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Bookmark: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz über den IPCC und die Ideologie der „Energiewende“
Fressoz kritisiert in Le GIEC et l’histoire : les racines d’un malentendu (deutsch wörtlich: Der IPCC und die Geschichte: Die Wurzeln eines Missverständnisses, Fressoz, 2024a) die Ansicht, ein „Übergang“ zu erneuerbaren Energien werde zu der nötigen Dekarbonisierung des Energiesystems führen. Als Historiker stellt er fest, dass „phasenorientierte“ (frz: phasiste) Modelle technologischen Wandels den Entwicklungen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart nicht entsprechen. Neue Technologien setzen sich fast immer zusätzlich zu älteren durch, statt sie abzulösen. Ältere Technologien und die zu ihnen gehörenden Materialien werden durch die Verwendung neuerer Technologien umdefiniert, aber kaum abgelöst. […] -
Find's sehr gut, dass sich #NeueNarrative nicht vor der Debatte unserer Zeit versteckt. 🌱
https://www.neuenarrative.de/magazin/superreiche-sind-ein-problem-geld-muss-teil-der-loesung-werden(Falls eure Firma noch Budget für gute Zeitschriften-Abos oder ihrem digitalen Workshop-Baukasten 9Spaces hat, schaut doch mal bei ihnen vorbei) #klima #klimakrise #degrowth #greengrowth #finanzen
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Has the Labour government lost its way? #GreenGrowth #Growth #Renewables
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While #GreenGrowth is a scam, it would already be an improvement of our current path. Which isn't even worth the term 'scam', blatant as it is in its disregard of our world and humanity.
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Our new blog post in advance of Andy Burnham's Green Summit where we'll have a stand.
Green Growth? Only within Degrowth | Steady State Manchester
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So much for green capitalism.
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Managers in the $5 trillion hedge fund industry say the reason is obvious: Despite the promises, clean energy and green technology stocks have lagged far behind the broader market.Deep-pocketed institutions are concluding that many climate investments won’t pay off as quickly, or as lucratively, as they’d hoped.
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Doing a bit of work on "Green growth" Vs "Degrowth". The idea is to frame GG within an overall reality of finite limits and contraction. That is, "Green growth within Degrowth'".
It might be more easily heard within the hegemony of growth than a bald opposition. It's kind of dialectical in both senses.
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#Greengrowth: 30% of regions worldwide achieve economic growth while reducing #carbon
#emissions, finds new PIK study. Though progress is evident, the authors state that the pace is too slow to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/green-growth-30-percent-of-regions-worldwide-achieve-economic-growth-while-reducing-carbon-emissions -
In discussions on green growth and degrowth, always first check the definition of growth.
If it's in terms of GDP, the whole discussion makes little sense. If GDP keeps growing, but we spend a large share on repairing and preventing climate damage, it doesn't increase wellbeing.
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“Flight shame is dead,” said Stefan Gössling, a researcher at Lund University, who studies tourism and climate change. “Partly what killed it is that governments promised to act on climate change … You can’t keep up momentum if people don’t still believe they need to fight.”
Since all leaders are telling the fairy tale that 1.5C can be kept alive, that #greengrowth can be achieved, etc people think we can all sit back and relax.
We shouldn’t.
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Si ses 200 000 000 utilisateurs ne font qu'une petite conversation avec chat gpt, on est déjà à 100 000 000 L d'eau par semaine.
chat gpt attire + 200 000 000 utilisateurs par semaine
https://www.rtbf.be/article/chatgtp-attire-plus-de-200-millions-d-utilisateurs-chaque-semaine-11427133Et une petite conversation avec chat gpt utilise 1/2L d'eau.
https://www.neowin.net/news/chatgpt-drinks-half-a-litre-of-water-for-every-20-prompts/#aiwaste #ai #generativeai #GreenGrowth #degrowth #enshitifacation #lowtech #
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We simply don’t have that long, and the #greenGrowth advocates who try to sell us such a plan are prioritizing a desire to save #capitalism over a desire to save life on this planet.
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"More green energy is not slowing this catastrophe. What we need is to stop the construction of new pipelines, drilling operations and airports; to end our structural dependency on cars; to recover ecosystemic and localized forms of food production that are inalienable from the communities that rely on them. We need to stop growth-based industry, deepen our relationships with our ecosystems and help them adapt."
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"They pretend that emissions can be counted country-by-country and ignore the carbon emissions caused by exported fossil fuels, even when those exports are crucial to a country’s economic growth. And they hide rising emissions by counting a country’s emissions per capita rather than counting total emissions.
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It’s being paid for by military production, the automobile industry and the aviation industry. It’s being paid for by banks and other companies that have their hands deep in the pockets of many of the worst polluters. “Green growth” is a marketing strategy.
Advocates of green growth claim many countries have already “decoupled economic growth from CO2 emissions” but when we look past their colorful graphs, we see they are burying the truth under statistics." -
No, the Shift to Renewables Will Not Be the End of Toil
Energy derived from sources like the sun, air, and water, on the other hand, is imbued with immense liberatory potential. In principle every house, farm, and factory could free itself from the grid by generating its own power. No longer would power lines and gigantic, leak prone tankers be needed for the transportation of energy; no longer would workers have to toil in underground mines or remote deserts or rough seas; there would be no need for the long supply chains required by fossil fuels. (Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse, p. 102, emphasis mine)
Context makes it clear Ghosh is thinking of coal mining, oil fields, and offshore platforms when he dreams of a world where workers no longer toil. But in his reverie, Ghosh neglects an important and undeniable feature of renewable energy: it is mining intensive.
The IEA sees demand for critical minerals surging from 2020-2050 even as the demand for and value of coal drops. In green growth scenarios, workers will likely have to keep toiling in mines as they now do in Chile’s Atacama desert, the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, or the copper and nickel mines of South Asia, South America, or Siberia. The list of potential sacrifice zones will grow and could someday extend from American public lands to offshore oil platforms converted to deep-sea mining.
This observation is not an argument against the transition from fossil fuels. It’s just to say that right now there are no signs the shift to renewables will undo the resource curse. Extraction for global markets continues to exact a local toll: serious human rights violations, unremediated (or irremediable) environmental destruction, conflicts over water (which Ghosh himself mentions briefly in a list of “conflicts that global warming will create or exacerbate,” p. 127), and social division. And for the foreseeable future, mineral supply chains will be nearly as long as those required by fossil fuels, strung across the globe and fraught with geopolitical tension.
A decisive shift from fossil fuels could see the end of the petro-dollar and the toppling of “global hierarchies of power,” as Ghosh imagines: “The liberatory potential of renewable energy has a very important international dimension as well: if adopted at scale it could transform, indeed revolutionize, the current global order” (p. 103). It could also precipitate another set of crises – environmental, humanitarian, and military — and it’s worth considering that eventuality.
Postscript, 20 January 2022: For more on the geopolitical risks of the energy transition, see Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, “Green Upheaval The New Geopolitics of Energy,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2022.
#AmitavGhosh #greenGrowth #humanRights #renewables #supplyChains #TheNutmegSCurse