Beyond Profit
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Matt Orsagh
@mattorsagh.bsky.social
Normalizing the conversation about a post-growth world.
Manchester City
We learned that maybe it isn’t a good idea to sell something that is a common good too far away forces who just want to extract from that common resource and don’t give a damn if that common resource survives in the long term. #degrowth
The Challenge of Internal Nature Pricing
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The stockmarket may not collapse in October … but it will. And soon.
People recognize that the society around them is fraying. Two-thirds of respondents (67%) say their country is more divided than a decade ago.
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What if we got together as a planet and decided to dedicate 100 years to doing … nothing at all. #degrowth
Energy, Surplus and the Economic Process
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The Cake is Baked
Each problem in our world has become a problem because a process, probably a very lengthy process, has played out for years, decades or centuries and has led to the current state of things - where the cake is already baked. #degrowth
The IMF Doesn’t Believe in Green Growth
Their willingness to discuss the limits to growth out in the open will give permission to dozens of other firms who are having the same conversations internally. #degrowth
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We have created a country that lionizes greedy Machiavellian narcissists. We make sure they are in charge. We make sure there is no way to throw them out. And then we wonder how we got here.
Goliath’s Curse Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse gives us a preview of the collapse coming by investigating the collapses that came before. The collapses mostly came about due to societies made fragile by inequality and inattention to real important issues.
AI isn’t going away, but you can put some restraints on it. You can even use it to argue for a world where AI is heavily regulated and is treated like a common good that should belong to and be managed by the public.
Someone should get on that. #degrowth
The Economic Implications of a Baby Bust
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Media Silence on Climate Change
The freedom of media organizations to talk about climate is directly proportional to their ability to speak the truth about climate change - namely that addressing it will mean confronting our growth obsessed culture. #degrowth
