“When nature is viewed primarily as an asset class, priorities begin to slide.
The question is not whether nature can help, but whether it is being used to delay the changes that matter.”
The nature of business
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“This allows us to see what the techno-optimistic narrative conceals: that the ‘intelligence’ produced by AI is not a free gift of information technology but a thermodynamic product, extracted from nature at a cost that the market fails to register.” #degrowth
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“A society that celebrates so gleefully the use of some of the most atrocious forms of violence known to humanity does not possess the capacity to reform itself from within.
The only solution is to take away the rewards of its violence.”
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A settler society rewarded for its violence has stopped pretending to mourn it.
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Te Li unravels the myth of digital dematerialization so heavily promulgated by Silicon Valley and other AI boosters, which presents the technology as a phenomenon that has escaped the material... READ...
You are not a consumer
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“Real existing #degrowth analytically examines these seeds of possibility, teaching us more about thriving in the absence of the growth obsessed matrix we continue to be embedded in.” #PostCapitalism #PostGrowth #Sufficiency
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“…the object of study in economics, is we people, with all of our beautiful, ever-evolving complexity. Thus, rather than undefined, we can think of the field of economics as vast, ripe for new explorations, & with enormous potential to be of human service.”
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FIFA & the World Cup: A History of Sportswashing & Corruption Part 2.3
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“If green growth is expected to achieve not just any absolute decoupling, but one large enough to meet economic growth goals within planetary boundaries, then it must represent a break with preceding trends.” #GreenGrowth #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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“Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-&-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, & is, a political project with specific & evolving strategies aimed aimed at particular, &—it should be emphasised—violent aims.”
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Phil Free
Phil Free
This study shows the global patterns of coupling and decoupling between economic growth and emissions in 1820-2022. Green growth has not been exclusive to the West nor is it recent. Recessions played ...
Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological…
The Trump Administration would just as soon we didn't know stuff, especially about our planet
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TL;DR: In this post, and the next two, we’ll first show how economists themselves have been unable to agree on a precise definition for the science of economics; and how one of the leading consensus d...
