I don't think the result is particularly good, actually. I was hoping for a really crisp summary of "post-growth" theory and developments that I could share but it tends to get bogged down in academic verbiage and definitions.
There are some specific developments mentioned in the review that I found interesting but perhaps our all-star degrowth academics could think about getting a good editor to beat this text into shape for a more general public.
I'd tell "them" it's cart before horse. As I've mentioned to you, Matt, on my to-dos is to get degrowth/collapse/global warming leaders into conversation about an ask for humanity. We wouldn’t start with pages of ways we might organize differently, but by looking at how to get humanity into a new agreement about what we are doing here that isn't about how to organize our finances. If we were a society based on cooperation rather than exploitation, how then to reorganize everything?
Wanting more isn't evil but the natural outgrowth of the exponential growth that got us the industrial world, where a radical change in objective could only be achieved by a new shared understanding of its necessity for our survival -- not just for the 90%, but for the 10%, too. So, first subject on the agenda for a meeting would be how to get humanity working together. Then we can take up alternative systems that could be designed.
I am starting up something that I will be announcing soon that I think plays a part in that, but it is a very specific corner of the problem I am familiar with.
I was on a call this morning held by r3.0 talking about bioregionalism. Getting people to organize first and foremost to take care and repair their bioregions. I know some other people leading such efforts and I am trying to get up to speed so I can help in my bioregion.
I would encourage all people to get involved in a similar way. Start local with your watershed, your forest, regenerating the land, etc. When a critical mass of people see what needs to be done to save their own backyard, they can be leveraged for bigger asks.
I am happy to talk to entertain other ideas as well.
Yes, that’s early on necessary. But not first. First is to collect ourselves. Once we are united we can take on reorganizing things. Get team spirit going first.
I don't think the result is particularly good, actually. I was hoping for a really crisp summary of "post-growth" theory and developments that I could share but it tends to get bogged down in academic verbiage and definitions.
There are some specific developments mentioned in the review that I found interesting but perhaps our all-star degrowth academics could think about getting a good editor to beat this text into shape for a more general public.
I'd tell "them" it's cart before horse. As I've mentioned to you, Matt, on my to-dos is to get degrowth/collapse/global warming leaders into conversation about an ask for humanity. We wouldn’t start with pages of ways we might organize differently, but by looking at how to get humanity into a new agreement about what we are doing here that isn't about how to organize our finances. If we were a society based on cooperation rather than exploitation, how then to reorganize everything?
Wanting more isn't evil but the natural outgrowth of the exponential growth that got us the industrial world, where a radical change in objective could only be achieved by a new shared understanding of its necessity for our survival -- not just for the 90%, but for the 10%, too. So, first subject on the agenda for a meeting would be how to get humanity working together. Then we can take up alternative systems that could be designed.
I am starting up something that I will be announcing soon that I think plays a part in that, but it is a very specific corner of the problem I am familiar with.
I was on a call this morning held by r3.0 talking about bioregionalism. Getting people to organize first and foremost to take care and repair their bioregions. I know some other people leading such efforts and I am trying to get up to speed so I can help in my bioregion.
I would encourage all people to get involved in a similar way. Start local with your watershed, your forest, regenerating the land, etc. When a critical mass of people see what needs to be done to save their own backyard, they can be leveraged for bigger asks.
I am happy to talk to entertain other ideas as well.
Yes, that’s early on necessary. But not first. First is to collect ourselves. Once we are united we can take on reorganizing things. Get team spirit going first.
Ok, let me know if you want to talk, or assemble a larger group first. You know where to find me.
What if they assembled an all-star team of Degrowth thinkers to make a political party and run for politics?:)