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#degrowth

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China’s choice to respond to tariff chaos by, on the one hand, increasing the effort to coöperate regionally and, on the other hand, impose export restrictions, particularly for rare resources difficult or imposdible to source elsewhere makes sense.

Seems #degrowth is now a hard reality. Collateral benefits, unintended but well due.

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Miss Gayle

"There are various non-mystical reasons why fossil fuels remain more profitable than renewables...Not all these things are necessarily set in stone for all time in such a way that it’s inconceivable renewables will ever compete with fossil fuels. But you’d expect an in-depth academic treatment of climate & energy futures to engage with them properly, rather than unfurling strange arguments about free energy & sunflowers."

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

Overshoot, meet undershoot Chris Smaje, originally published by Small Farm Future April 2, 2025 A lot of people have a peculiar horror for the idea of a lower energy and more local world, necessarily involving more people working the land – whereas the idea of living in a suburb and working in an office tends to get a free pass. I think there will be more of the former and less of the latter in the future whether we like it or not, but it’s a bit odd that our culture is so resistant to the possibility that the former might have its plus points. Teaser image credit: A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. By Scop Terre vivante – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146557065 "...We’re seriously undershooting the level of political rethinking needed via an overshot faith in techno-salvation. Malm and Carton’s term ‘bourgeois economics’ to describe mainstream economic orthodoxy is revealing in this respect. Implicitly, this sees the problem as merely the dominance of economic thought by a particular class perspective that can be overcome by more accurate scientific analysis. That’s a really old kind of social science thinking that I don’t think is at all equal to present problems, and in fact is a part of them – the slippage from the idea of scientific truth to the idea of a scientific understanding of human society that generates the correct political prescriptions for it."
#DeGrowth#Sustainability#Renewabkes
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Eric Maugendre

On #tariffs:
"Retaliation by other countries will lead to a fall in US exports. In the 1930s, after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were imposed, retaliation led to a 33% fall in US exports and spiralling down of international trade […].
"A tariff trade war would hit the US economy harder than Smoot-Hawley, since trade is now three times as big a share of GDP as it was in 1929, and was 75% of GDP in 2024 – versus roughly 6% in 1929."

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Michael Roberts Blog · Trump’s tariffs – some facts and consequences (from various sources)The overall impact of Trump’s tariff hikes is to raise the average tariff rate on US goods imports to 26%, the highest level in 130 years. 2. The formula used to establish the tariff for each count…
#trade#imports#exports
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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin

Die soziale Ökologie des Kapitals sieht das marxsche Ausbeutungsverhältnis von Kapital und Arbeit nicht isoliert, sondern in einer materiellen Welt von Energie- und Materieströmen, den biophysikalischen und ökologischen Vermittlungen der Akkumulation und des daraus resultierenden Wirtschaftsprozesses. Wer #Klimakrise und #Wachstum reflektiert, kommt an Éric Pineaults neuer Studie, jetzt auf Deutsch, nicht vorbei: dietzberlin.de/produkt/die-soz

Das neue Buch von Éric Pineault »Die soziale Ökologie des Kapitals«, mit einem grafischen Cover in Hellgrün und Dunkelblau, liegt auf einem Hintergrund aus verschiedenen Grüntönen
#postwachstum#degrowth#klima
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Ivor

American bloke on Channel 4 news says global trade is all unfair as USA consumers consume 30% of everything made in the world. All that tat.

Just a thought but wouldn't it be simpler if they just consumed less?
#TradeWar #Degrowth

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Bread and Circuses

At its core, #degrowth feels to me like a deliberate return to a stronger, healthier version of ourselves, of our very humanity... a coming home, if you will, and a “welcome back” to the better angels of our nature that we abandoned far too long ago with the rise of patriarchy and growth-oriented civilization.

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