Peter Lipman
@peterlipman.bsky.social
I've been a teacher, a co-operative worker, a lawyer and external affairs director at UK charity Sustrans, and am the former chair of Transition Network, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Common Cause Foundation.
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Much more info here:
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February 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Much more info here:
healthforxr.com
healthforxr.com
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This is clearly *not* just about "moving numbers around" (what a bizarre claim!). It's about transforming the ownership and direction of production.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
This is clearly *not* just about "moving numbers around" (what a bizarre claim!). It's about transforming the ownership and direction of production.
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With this approach, we know it is possible to ensure good lives for all 8 billion people on this planet (including supplying all the "core goods" these authors call for) with *less* total resource use and energy use, and less total output, than the world economy presently produces.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
With this approach, we know it is possible to ensure good lives for all 8 billion people on this planet (including supplying all the "core goods" these authors call for) with *less* total resource use and energy use, and less total output, than the world economy presently produces.
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The solution is to reclaim democratic control over the means of production, overcome the capitalist law of value, and organize production around social and ecological goals (in other words, socialism). This must include, and indeed is enabled by, degrowing damaging and unnecessary production.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The solution is to reclaim democratic control over the means of production, overcome the capitalist law of value, and organize production around social and ecological goals (in other words, socialism). This must include, and indeed is enabled by, degrowing damaging and unnecessary production.
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and we get chronic shortages of obviously necessary things because they are less profitable or not profitable at all.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
and we get chronic shortages of obviously necessary things because they are less profitable or not profitable at all.
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The problem is that capital controls that productive capacity (the labour, resources, factories, etc), and therefore produces what is profitable to capital... so we get massive overproduction of SUVs, weapons, mansions, etc, with devastating ecological consequences...
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The problem is that capital controls that productive capacity (the labour, resources, factories, etc), and therefore produces what is profitable to capital... so we get massive overproduction of SUVs, weapons, mansions, etc, with devastating ecological consequences...
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Everyone with any sense can see there are critical shortages of basic things like housing, sanitation systems, healthcare, public transit, etc.
In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.
In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Everyone with any sense can see there are critical shortages of basic things like housing, sanitation systems, healthcare, public transit, etc.
In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.
In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.
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Degrowth does *not* proceed from the position that there is "already more than enough wealth in the world"... which here seems to mean "the stuff we need to live good lives is already produced and just needs to be distributed better." Totally wrong.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Degrowth does *not* proceed from the position that there is "already more than enough wealth in the world"... which here seems to mean "the stuff we need to live good lives is already produced and just needs to be distributed better." Totally wrong.
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I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.
February 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.
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and organize them around human needs and development rather than around servicing capital accumulation in the core. Socialist ideas provided a method for achieving this, and with remarkable results.
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
and organize them around human needs and development rather than around servicing capital accumulation in the core. Socialist ideas provided a method for achieving this, and with remarkable results.
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The national liberation movements - and the masses of workers and peasants they mobilized and represented - understood that they needed to regain control over their resources and productive capacities,
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The national liberation movements - and the masses of workers and peasants they mobilized and represented - understood that they needed to regain control over their resources and productive capacities,
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Namely, the anti-colonial movement, which was one of humanity's greatest moral and political achievements, was led in large part under the banner of socialism.
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Namely, the anti-colonial movement, which was one of humanity's greatest moral and political achievements, was led in large part under the banner of socialism.
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But it also shows he understands an important historical fact that most people do not grasp, and which the US has spent the past half century trying to erase and obscure.
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
But it also shows he understands an important historical fact that most people do not grasp, and which the US has spent the past half century trying to erase and obscure.
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Rubio's speech was obviously imperialist and repulsive (and all global South states should take note, and plan deterrence accordingly).
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Rubio's speech was obviously imperialist and repulsive (and all global South states should take note, and plan deterrence accordingly).
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An El Niño is brewing.
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. @billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. @billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
An El Niño is brewing
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
An El Niño is brewing.
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. @billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. @billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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NEW – Q&A: What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action? | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
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February 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
NEW – Q&A: What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action? | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
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Melinda Cooper's 'Epstein Family Values' in the Equator offers a good analysis of how billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org
February 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Melinda Cooper's 'Epstein Family Values' in the Equator offers a good analysis of how billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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"...fascism became objectionable to Europeans only when it unleashed in Europe the brutality they had inflicted on the “inferior” peoples of Asia & Africa." Similarly now: Europeans are upset, and paralysed, that Trump is treating him like those 'others' www.equator.org/articles/aft...
After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR
The fundamental problem of the present is complicity
www.equator.org
February 16, 2026 at 10:39 AM
"...fascism became objectionable to Europeans only when it unleashed in Europe the brutality they had inflicted on the “inferior” peoples of Asia & Africa." Similarly now: Europeans are upset, and paralysed, that Trump is treating him like those 'others' www.equator.org/articles/aft...
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💰The Environment Agency allows its staff to hold shares in the companies it regulates.
⁉️And we're supposed to believe that regulation is going to fix the water crisis?!
🎉Huge congratulations to WASP on their victory - directors in the EA will now have to reveal their financial interests
⁉️And we're supposed to believe that regulation is going to fix the water crisis?!
🎉Huge congratulations to WASP on their victory - directors in the EA will now have to reveal their financial interests
Green watchdog loses fight to hide key information about its bosses
The Environment Agency has to reveal its area directors' financial interests after a two-year battle with a clean water charity.
www.express.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
💰The Environment Agency allows its staff to hold shares in the companies it regulates.
⁉️And we're supposed to believe that regulation is going to fix the water crisis?!
🎉Huge congratulations to WASP on their victory - directors in the EA will now have to reveal their financial interests
⁉️And we're supposed to believe that regulation is going to fix the water crisis?!
🎉Huge congratulations to WASP on their victory - directors in the EA will now have to reveal their financial interests
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Britain helped cover up Washington's role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Árbenz in 1954, recently declassified files reveal👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
How Britain helped cover up a US-sponsored coup in Guatemala
Declassified documents reveal how the UK helped cover up America’s role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected government
www.declassifieduk.org
February 16, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Britain helped cover up Washington's role in a coup against Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Árbenz in 1954, recently declassified files reveal👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
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Reporting from @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...
'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism
Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it's not an accident.
www.fastcompany.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Reporting from @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...
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🗞️A jury has unanimously found all defendants NOT GUILTY in the JP Morgan medics trial! In 2022 6 medics broke 8 windows of the bank's London HQ in protest of fossil fuel funding. Jury unable to come to a decision in 2024 trial. Now a new jury found not guilty 😍🙏
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti....
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti....
Jury fails to reach verdict over medics accused of JP Morgan climate protest
Doctors and nurses who damaged windows pleaded not guilty because of bank’s ‘leading role’ in funding fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
🗞️A jury has unanimously found all defendants NOT GUILTY in the JP Morgan medics trial! In 2022 6 medics broke 8 windows of the bank's London HQ in protest of fossil fuel funding. Jury unable to come to a decision in 2024 trial. Now a new jury found not guilty 😍🙏
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti....
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti....
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👉NEW -- UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister
by John McEvoy
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...
by John McEvoy
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...
UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
👉NEW -- UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister
by John McEvoy
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...
by John McEvoy
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...
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IPBES: Public spending on environmentally harmful subsidies is approximately $2.4 trillion! Forget bs #biodiversity credits markets, we must focus our demands on shifting harmful subsidies and not stop until we get it.
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
IPBES warns biodiversity loss is a systemic economic risk. Yet $7.3T a year still funds nature-harming activities — far more than conservation.
Without reform, profit stays misaligned with the ecosystems the economy depends on.
IPBES warns biodiversity loss is a systemic economic risk. Yet $7.3T a year still funds nature-harming activities — far more than conservation.
Without reform, profit stays misaligned with the ecosystems the economy depends on.
The business case for biodiversity
In Manchester this week, governments endorsed a report that tries to do something business has long resisted: treat biodiversity as economically material. The new assessment from the…
news.mongabay.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM
IPBES: Public spending on environmentally harmful subsidies is approximately $2.4 trillion! Forget bs #biodiversity credits markets, we must focus our demands on shifting harmful subsidies and not stop until we get it.
Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder. insideclimatenews.org/news/1002202...
Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder. - Inside Climate News
A number of tools can help you understand localized climate risks. But it’s still a lot to navigate.
insideclimatenews.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder. insideclimatenews.org/news/1002202...