#postcapitalism — Public Fediverse posts
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GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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GMBC ep02 - Tea Monks and Robots: Exploring Hope Punk in Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk Duology #beckychambers #teamonk #monkandrobot #duology #scifi #cozyscifi #lgbtqiascifi #utopia #postindustrial #postcapitalism #solarpunk #scifriread https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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Leaving you all with an excerpt from an essay from 2022, before I re-boost posts from yesterday and boost quoted posts. TY to @MaQuest , @jblue , @rooftopjaxx and everyone who shared and/or chimed in! #ABetterWorldIsPossible !
Can Solarpunk Save the World?
The choice, then, is clear: solarpunk, or barbarism.
by Stacey Balkan, November 15, 2022
Excerpt: "Offering an imperfect but clear-eyed hope, rather than so many apocalyptic nightmares, is a key goal of solarpunk fiction. While many critics argue that radical change will only come about following the total collapse of Earth systems—in other words, the apocalypse imagined by popular climate fiction and much recent zombie fare—it has become increasingly evident that such alarmism possesses no political utility.
"Furthermore, in a discussion about climate and energy justice, we must acknowledge that, for many #Indigenous communities, the 'apocalypse' happened long ago: during the long 16th-century, when an expanding plantation system expedited the removal and enslavement of millions of #BIPOC persons in order to accommodate the #hyperconsumption of imperial centers like London.
"Apocalypse, as a geohistorical event or literary trope, is thus not central to solarpunk. That is, solarpunk doesn’t require an environmental apocalypse, because most solarpunk practitioners understand the material legacies of #SettlerColonialism as on ongoing apocalypse.
"Consequently, solarpunk worlds are not necessarily postapocalyptic (nor set in the future), but they are #postextractivist. Responding to the ethos of #extractive #capitalism — whereby the colonized exist as 'fuel … for the sake of someone else’s good life' — solarpunk imaginaries demand a thorough dismantling of fossil-fueled modernity and the material infrastructures (and attendant cultural expressions) that occasioned our comprehensive dependence on prehistoric carbon. Quite logically then, solarpunk also rejects the techno-utopian project of saving industrial modernity via increasingly hubristic geoengineering schemes."
Full essay:
https://www.publicbooks.org/can-solarpunk-save-the-world/#SolarPunkSunday #PostCapitalism #SharingEconomy #Earth4All #SettlerColonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #TechBros
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#PostCapitalism reaches it's inevitable clown-show conclusion: Slow down dickheads; smell the roses; get a fucking life.
#FuckTechBros #FuckEhAye #FuckOligarchy
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-san-francisco-drivers-traffic-gridlock -
Ummmm... I believe in world that's #PostCapitalism. But yeah. #ClimateChange is a HUGE wake up call for us all!
#ClimateCrisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
Damian Carrington Environment editor
Thu 3 Apr 2025"The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.
"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.
"Global carbon emissions are still rising and current policies will result in a rise in global temperature between 2.2C and 3.4C above pre-industrial levels. The damage at 3C will be so great that governments will be unable to provide financial bailouts and it will be impossible to adapt to many climate impacts, said Thallinger, who is also the chair of the German company’s investment board and was previously CEO of Allianz Investment Management.
"The core business of the insurance industry is risk management and it has long taken the dangers of global heating very seriously. In recent reports, Aviva said extreme weather damages for the decade to 2023 hit $2tn, while GallagherRE said the figure was $400bn in 2024. Zurich said it was “essential” to hit net zero by 2050.
"Thallinger said: 'The good news is we already have the technologies to switch from fossil combustion to zero-emission energy. The only thing missing is speed and scale. This is about saving the conditions under which markets, finance, and civilisation itself can continue to operate.' "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/0ndSt#ABetterWorldIsPossible #DeGrowth #CapitalismKills #CapitalismSucks
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👋Anthropologue et agroécologue de formation, j'ai déserté la recherche et développement. Je m'active dans plusieurs collectifs basés sur Bruxelles : Désorceler la Finance; petites singularités; ɴon-ᴀ; Zone neutre; ZonneKlopper.
Je m’intéresse aux pratiques d'imaginaire, je travail pour @ps et je monte une mutuelle pour les sans-papiers. Je suis actif dans les luttes pour le droit à la ville et contre les frontières.
#introduction #noborder #droitalaville #hopepunk #postcapitalism -
#Degrowth and the Unmaking of #Capitalism
By Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, originally published by Degrowth.info
December 7, 2020"Our societies are facing multiple interconnected challenges, which include #ClimateEmergency, an unprecedented loss of #biodiversity, growing #inequality and #PlasticPollution. What connects these challenges is the underlying capitalist economic model, which prioritizes #profit-making over #wellbeing and requires endless #EconomicGrowth simply to stay afloat.
"Degrowth offers an alternative vision – it is a project of urgent and fundamental transformation. Degrowth requires reimagining our societies from the perspective of being profit-centred to being wellbeing-centred. This approach distinguishes degrowth from other, more compromising visions of transformation, such as ‘green growth’. But how can society transition towards degrowth?
"One idea that has become prominent in thinking about such a transition is that of ‘#decolonization of the imaginary’, a concept developed by Serge Latouche. This concept signals the need for a disruption of taken-for-granted ways of seeing the world, and their associated practices, rules and social norms. Decolonization of the imaginary questions deeply rooted beliefs about who we are, how we live, and about our place in this world. Are we merely self-interested individuals or are we also care-oriented members of communities? To what extent do technology and #consumption contribute to human wellbeing? Does our constantly expansive economy threaten human communities and the natural world?
"Decolonization of the imaginary has been an inspirational idea for scholars and activists alike. Yet, it alone seems to be insufficient to take us to fully grasping the depth of disruptions of capitalism that have been produced by initiatives such as transition towns, #permaculture farms, and #RepairCafes. Decolonization of the imaginary emphasises the symbolic dimensions of social change but it underplays the material dimensions of such change. It is also usually understood as an end point, and hence fails to help us to recognize – and learn about – what happens along the way.
"How can we think about the processes by which disruptions of capitalism occur in broader, deeper and more dynamic ways? Is it possible for us to better capture what is going on in concrete initiatives?
"In a recent article, Giuseppe Feola proposes that we think about the disruption of capitalism in terms of ‘#unmaking’. He suggests that an unmaking of capitalism is not only necessary, but possibly pre-conditional for a transformation of the magnitude and nature required by degrowth. ‘Unmaking’ refers to individual or collective actions of disengagement or active deconstructions of existing capitalist systems that ‘make space’ for alternatives. Such actions could take the form of a personal decision to limit consumption or to quit a high-paying job at an #OilCorporation. Unmaking can also be recognized in a #CommunityFarm that refuses to submit to market pressure to expand production and instead turns to a #CommunitySupported model to sustain itself."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-12-07/degrowth-and-the-unmaking-of-capitalism/
#SolarPunkSunday #PostCapitalism #SmallScaleRuptures #Polycrisis