#steadystateeconomy — Public Fediverse posts

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#degrowth #SteadyStateEconomy #ReadingList

This is the problem with #growth as a political objective in #UKPolitics We have done our growing over 200 years. We now need to spread the results of that growth fairly. We have no further room to grow. Countries in the global south need to grow and we need to implement a #SteadyStateEconomy in the face of #ClimateChange

#PMQs

A revealing article on the headwinds facing the transition to #sustainable #green-energy.
From the article:

1. #Wind and #solar stocks are declining due to higher costs of raw materials and slow supply response.
2. #EV chargers and copper mining, critical for the energy transition, face demand uncertainties and reluctance in investment, and
3. Despite government subsidies, #renewable energy sectors struggle with high costs and interest rates, indicating a slower and more expensive transition than anticipated.

This is the problem with entrusting matters of such dire importance to #capitalism -- especially in an age of resource scarcity. As I say in my pinned toot:

**Capitalism is little more than an ideological hangover produced from a time long past when low hanging fruit was everywhere for the taking and people thought it would never disappear.**

That quote has deeper context than most suspect. I penned it years ago shortly out of law school after taking a Wildlife Law class from the, now deceased, Professor Dale Goble. He literally wrote the book on the #EndangeredSpecies Act. There he introduced me to the reason species have, historically, been driven to #extinction -- new technology + capitalist opportunism:

Gun powder killed the mega-predators. Whales? Spear gun. Passenger pigeon? Net guns. I could go on. But then we invented the petroleum economy, and in the opportunistic race for economic growth the decline has quickened by means of the collateral damage caused by #habitat degradation. Which, brings me to my point ---

The ideology that is capitalism was built around gluts. It cannot exist without low hanging fruit to fuel the #consumption #orgy necessary to get past the bottleneck of widespread consumer adoption. We are seeing the problem in stark outline today. Without #monopoly in the resource extraction sector, generating the necessary momentum to survive the capitalist "valley of death" is nearly impossible.

I conclude, there must first be an ideological transition away from the hangover that is capitalism, if we ever want to transition sustainable green-energy. **The fruit is gone, folks. If we ever want it back, capitalism won’t take us there**
#ClimateCrisis #climate #environment #ecosocialism #economy #SteadyStateEconomy

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/has-the-energy-transition-hit-a-wall.html

@melissabeartrix @jhoward
Unchecked crap-italism.

#puns #crapitalism #degrowthNow #steadyStateEconomy

Growth won't decouple from carbon emission AND water extraction/pollution AND biodiversity loss AND extinctions AND chemicals. Pipe dreams. Just stop the deception, please. #degrowth to a #SteadyStateEconomy
#climateChange #Biodiversity

A long way to pull this back and most of it is going in the wrong direction. #degrowth to a #SteadyStateEconomy is required. Consumptgenic lifestyles must be reined in.

For the new arrivals, let's reintroduce ourselves.
We are a combined think tank and activist group.
We've been working for 10 years, exploring and promoting the possibilities of a non-growth-based economy and society, with particular focus (but not exclusive) on the Greater Manchester city region / upper Mersey bioregion.
See https://steadystatemanchester.net for our work, including book and pamphlets.
#Introduction #Degrowth #PostGrowth #SteadyStateEconomy #GreaterManchester #Policy #Manchester #Planning

We didn't do an introduction, so here it is.
A combined think tank and activist group.
We've been working for 10 years, exploring and promoting the possibilities of a non-growth-based economy and society, with particular focus (but not exclusive) on the Greater Manchester city region / upper Mersey bioregion.
See https://steadystatemanchester.net for our work, including book and pamphlets.
#Introduction #degrowth #postgrowth #SteadyStateEconomy #GreaterManchester #Policy #Manchester #planning

@jeffcliff
We personally welcome a #SteadyStateEconomy more inline with #LimitsToGrowth.

We wish it *really* came in 2019 rather than years later but they just had to do that #moneyPrinting.

Russian President #VladimirPutin did not have any kind word about the #moneyPump in his recent address, we haven't heard a translation yet. The unequal way the #pandemic payouts were dished out and those damned #assetPurchases.

Both criminal, and cronyist.

@lawremipsum
It sounds like you are not a mad person, nor an economist! 😱

#financialisation #steadyStateEconomy

@Hamishcampbell
Not bad at all.

It was easy to see who the #Keynesian #deathCultist and who the #degrowth and #steadyStateEconomy proponent was. #sse

If they talked a bit about where they thought bitcoin sat in amongst all this theory, it would have been perfect.

They characterised #Nixon as #uncooperative (?). Could've gone a bit further and called him militaristic, #hawkish, etc. It was the #debts to #France re VietnamWar that sent #GoldStandard packing.

Interesting re #1962!

#JFK #war

'STEADY-STATING' TIMES AHEAD!

We are so pleased to discover today that the #SPA (Sustainable Population #Australia) has ditched their Cloudflare server.

We'll finally be able to talk more about debunking #growthist tropes that are so often propagated by the #legacyMedia, and can better address issues that are affecting Australians.

SPA are an #environmental group advocating a #steadyStateEconomy + much more.

Congratulations SPA - we are ecstatic!

#environment #urbanSprawl #ecology