| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... 14:43 - Sep 10 with 1008 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
At last!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post
"The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a “new way of living”, according to a Japanese academic whose book on Marxism and the environment has become a surprise bestseller.
The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo University, is simple: capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is destroying the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth."
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| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 14:51 - Sep 10 with 937 views | NthQldITFC |
What we need is for this to spread like wildfire amongst the young in the West and in the rest of the world too. We need to give the young some hope, because at the moment they have very little, but they are the ones who can actually drive the change by massive pressure from the bottom up. |  |
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| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 14:54 - Sep 10 with 929 views | NthQldITFC |
The late James Lovelock was saying twenty years ago that 'sustainable development' was a pipe-dream, and a way to excuse pretty much business as usual.
We need radical de-growth or sustainable retreat, or we are well and truly f*^&ed. And that is an unfortunate but unescapable fact. We all need to wake up bloody quickly. | |
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| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 15:02 - Sep 10 with 897 views | Darth_Koont |
Cheers for that. Think that touches a lot on the same evolutionary biology conclusions of Harari with Sapiens and his other books.
The final quote was the most interesting IMO:
“If economic policies have been failing for 30 years, then why don’t we invent a new way of life? The desire for that is suddenly there.”
We already know that the neo-liberal economic thinking we’ve slid into over recent decades doesn’t even help people let alone the planet. So we need to change whatever happens – and it might as well be towards something sustainable, lasting and that delivers more wellbeing and happiness rather than less. |  |
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| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 17:06 - Sep 10 with 736 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 14:51 - Sep 10 by NthQldITFC |
What we need is for this to spread like wildfire amongst the young in the West and in the rest of the world too. We need to give the young some hope, because at the moment they have very little, but they are the ones who can actually drive the change by massive pressure from the bottom up. |
I was young when I started spreading this like wildfire. Maybe it will be a pebble in a pond and ripples type thing!! Here's hoping. | |
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| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 17:09 - Sep 10 with 721 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 14:54 - Sep 10 by NthQldITFC |
The late James Lovelock was saying twenty years ago that 'sustainable development' was a pipe-dream, and a way to excuse pretty much business as usual.
We need radical de-growth or sustainable retreat, or we are well and truly f*^&ed. And that is an unfortunate but unescapable fact. We all need to wake up bloody quickly. |
I posted a R.I.P for him on here but I'm not sure anybody had heard of him.
My kind of scientist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis | |
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| Almost as uplifting as a Town win... on 18:15 - Sep 10 with 629 views | NthQldITFC |
He was a proper scientist turned environmentalist. Kept going to 103, and told the government that he would be happy to have the spent fuel rods from a sensible and necessary nuclear power programme encased in concrete and buried in his back garden so that he could heat his house for free. | |
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