Economic growth likes to pretend that it has made the world a better place... but it is not being honest.
We are facing-
"the greatest emergency of our existence – a crisis far deeper & more complex than many yet recognise."
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NEWS: The fossil fuel industry is now using secretive international tribunals to sue countries that try to reduce carbon emissions. https://t.co/MpxFf6q5IG
Venetia’s Appeal against her prison sentence was dismissed
The judge repeated the words of colleagues in saying that the home tutor’s actions were an ‘attack on the rule of law’. More judicial stupidity
The @JudiciaryUK are showing again that they are complicit in genocide.
The Morning Star is the only UK media outlet to report a Spanish court summoning ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo to testify on his agency’s reported plans to assassinate an award-winning journalist in London.
Orwellian doesn’t do what we are seeing justice.
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Perfect illustration of displacement activity. The government mulls reducing smokers to 5% of the population by 2030, while it continues to pump out greenhouse gases that by that same year will have made climate breakdown irreversible
Paul Mason has become a laughing stock, even on the soft left, for his ever more outrageous authoritarianism. But it's no laughing matter: leaked emails suggest he's covertly plotting with an intelligence-linked contractor to destroy independent media https://t.co/yRQ6eMQUy5
@timparrique @PJ_Jacks ✅ Consuming Ourselves Out Of Existence.
The limitations of #GDP as a true measure of #wellbeing.
by @DrDCWahl
By increasing consumption, so the story goes, the #economy grows and collective #wellbeing grows with it.
🔺THIS IS A FALLACY
#ecosystems#nature
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How do we advance #agroecology and develop local economies that will challenge and reverse neoliberal globalisation?
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Fringe Farming event on 14 June - a chance for us to convince parliamentarians and policy makers to put local agroecological food growing enterprises and supply chains on the agenda @UKsustain . Do join us online. https://t.co/6h85cj5RJU
"Although its message applies to the whole world, in practice it's rich people & rich countries, including Australia, that must reduce their energy consumption (& hence their consumption)" Mark Diesendorf
#Degrowth
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“People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on... This will be greater than anything we have ever seen in the past. This will be unprecedented. Every living thing will be affected.” https://t.co/bbhCyvtEP5
"The report's most infamous scenario — the Business as Usual (BAU) scenario — predicted that the world's economic growth would peak around the 2040s, then take a sharp downturn, along with the global population, food availability and natural resources.
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