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philfree.bsky.social
“Capitalism is stupid, obtuse, parasitic, lazy for refusing to accept that human experience is so much more than to work for a wage to produce useless stuff & mountains of waste.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

How much work is enough?
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What is work? How much work is enough? | DEGROWTHIFY #7
Hello fellow humans,
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
cusp.ac.uk
The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth | @economicresearch.bsky.social seminar with @timjackson.org.uk | Online, 🗓️ 24 Nov, 7-8pm GMT → www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-care-e...
cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge
The Care Economy: Redefining Prosperity in a World Beyond Growth
Join Tim Jackson to explore how care can form the foundation of a humane, sustainable economy.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
mylesjaybee.bsky.social
@greens.org.au need to grow beyond the environmental base, ally with unions (4-day week), regional Australia (local ownership, regen ag), small co-ops (anti-corporate fairness) & First Nations communities (sovereignty, land care).
#Degrowth #auspol #PostGrowth
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
mylesjaybee.bsky.social
@greens.org.au call out corporate greed but rarely the debt-based growth system behind it. Push for public money creation, break up monopolies, cap obscene wealth, and tie ownership to social & ecological responsibility.
#Degrowth #auspol #PostGrowth
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
philfree.bsky.social
“His eco-modernist electrification agenda fits on the family tree of ‘abundance liberalism’, the latest iteration of the idea we can zone, unleash, & grow our way out of a collapsing planet on fire.”

#PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Bill McKibben’s Far-Too-Sunny Outlook for Solar Power
His new book makes the case for going big on solar power—and abandons climate angst for ecomodernist optimism.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“Lefebvre observes that at the point that growth becomes an ideology, ‘destruction becomes inherent in capitalism, in every respect’.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

Charting a Communal-Ecological Path: Beyond the Growth Fetish
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Charting a Communal-Ecological Path: Beyond the Growth Fetish - Monthly Review
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November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“In a slogan: a theory of eco-sufficiency is only complete with an account of ethical #sufficiency.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

Sustainable Sufficientarianism
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Sustainable Sufficientarianism: Combining ‘Enough for all’ with Eco-Sufficiency
Sufficientarianism is a theory of social justice that determines individual entitlements by setting a threshold of what is enough for a decent life. Sufficientarianism therefore seems to be a suita...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“Gates’s proposals ignore the basic physics of climate as a nonlinear system…

The climate is not a thermostat to be adjusted; it’s a fragile, interconnected network whose stability depends on respecting limits we barely understand.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth #PostCapitalism
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Bill Gates Wants Us to Do Less About the Climate Crisis
Billionaire Bill Gates says we should back away from urgent emissions cuts and bet instead on tomorrow’s tech. But unless that innovation is democratically controlled, it will serve the same interests...
jacobin.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“We could keep prioritising growth & increase the risk of our civilisation going off a cliff.

We could slam on the brakes, & not go off the cliff.

Either way, your pension, your 401-K & mine, are in trouble.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Climate Change is Coming for the Stock Market
Maybe that will get someone's attention.
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“The most important thermodynamic concepts presented in the book include energy, entropy & dissipation, which Kolasi determines ‘impose powerful constraints on the behaviour & evolution of economic systems’.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Book Review (Nick Thornton): The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World by Erald Kolasi
Nick Thornton from Carnegie Mellon wrote a review for my new book, The Physics of Capitalism, reproduced in full below.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
cstalberg.bsky.social
Through a web of affiliates, groups such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation bankroll publications and speakers whose goal is to undermine the expanding global effort to maintain our planet's habitability for all life. Here is an example. #Degrowth #Postgrowth www.rethinkx.com/publications...
The Degrowth Delusion | RethinkX
Discover why degrowth is a flawed concept. Learn how technological advancements can lead to sustainable prosperity and solve our biggest environmental challenges in The Degrowth Delusion.
www.rethinkx.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“GDP is not our economic God.
Growth has not delivered #wellbeing. We’ve tried it for decades & we’re in a hopeless mess of inequality, climate change & potential collapse.” #Degrowth #PostGrowth

10 commandments for a just economy
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10 commandments for a just economy
Our economy isn’t working. It’s built on lies: the myth of growth, the myth that profit comes before people, and the myth that wealth is more important than fairness. If we want a sustainable societ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy
Plenty of work still to be done, but I find it inspiring that pretty radical policies are already happening, just as Very Serious People shake their heads and claim they are impossible or unrealistic.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.3138/jccpe-2025-0006

#cities
#postgrowth
#degrowth
#economics
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy
THREAD 1/n

Inspired by Herman Daly, a new paper lists seven policy directions for cities to thrive beyond economic growth. They are not speculative, all are being tried somewhere or other.

#cities
#postgrowth
#degrowth
#economics
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
cusp.ac.uk
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #Kairos #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #BigFood
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society | Mindvalley Book Club with Tim Jackson
Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani speaks with Tim to discuss why modern economics overlooks care work, how the pandemic exposed the real foundations of society, and wh ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
unsplintering.bsky.social
"African Peace Village is envisioned as place to host gatherings, workshops, & retreats — where people come to recover sense of belonging, exchange knowledge on food consciousness, mental health & experiment with new economic & educational paradigms"... example for world

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Co-Creating An African Peace Village in Portugal
Reimagining how we live, learn, and relate in this time of crisis.
medium.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“If there is a hard rule of thumb when it comes to building complex systems like the economy, it is this: Entropy is a bitch, & it won’t let you leave without paying.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

Doom is in the eye of the beholder
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Doom Is in the Eye of the Beholder
“We have only two modes — complacency and panic”
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November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“Commons offer more than efficiency—they offer liberation. ‘You can have autonomy, control & humane relationships, rather than everything reduced to market transactions’.” #PostCapitalism #PostGrowth #Degrowth

On commons ground
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On commons ground – The Mint Magazine
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November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“Transformative changes are essential… reducing overconsumption, especially amongst the wealthiest, while adopting ecological & #postgrowth economic models that promote social equity & respect safe & just planetary boundaries.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
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November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
philfree.bsky.social
“In the context of the human predicament, economists tell stories of infinite growth, & that technology will be able to solve any of challenges along the way.

Ultimately, the result is human hallucination.” #Degrowth #PostGrowth #PostCapitalism

I Don't Know
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I Don't Know
This post is adapted from last week’s Frankly video titled “The Three Most Important Words We’re Taught Not to Say.” In the future, we’ll be adapting more Frankly videos to written versions and contin...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
icta-uab.bsky.social
📢 Join us Monday, Nov 3!

🌱💡Kohei Saito (Univ. of Tokyo) presents “Degrowth Communism”

👥Part of the REAL-Postgrowth public seminar series.

📍 ICTA‑UAB & Online | 12:30‑14:00 CET

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October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
lukasfrisell.bsky.social
"Transformative changes are essential, including governance at national and international levels, transforming our production systems, reducing overconsumption, especially among the wealthiest, while adopting ecological and postgrowth economic models that promote social equity"
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
badur.bsky.social
But here it is:
"... while adopting ecological and postgrowth economic models that promote social equity and respecting safe and just planetary boundaries."
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
icta-uab.bsky.social
Today, our REAL-Postgrowth project hosted Dr. Dario Krpan (LSE) for an insightful seminar on “Public support for degrowth and the prospects for its adoption.” 🌍✨

The session explored how societies perceive and embrace post-growth ideas.

#PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sustainability
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
philfree.bsky.social
“The study found that 96% of students believe business leaders must understand alternative models to continued economic growth.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?
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Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?
The capitalist model of endless economic growth is pushing the limits of our planet. How should future leaders prepare?
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October 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM