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[probablyasocialecologist]

Degrowth basics

"The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress."

What is Degrowth? | Caracol DSA

Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy

Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment

We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams

Can degrowth save us and the planet? | Nottingham Trent

Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker

The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic

Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic

A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC

What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science

Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine

Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub

All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA

A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom

On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review

What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META

Green growth

"There is no empirical evidence that absolute decoupling from resource use can be achieved on a global scale against a background of continued economic growth."

Is Green Growth Possible? | Jason Hickel & Giorgos Kallis

The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy

The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation

Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth

Green Growth | Uneven Earth

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American

Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera

A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique

Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman

Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation

Degrowth and the left

"In the middle of an ecological emergency, should we be producing sport utility vehicles and mansions? Should we be diverting energy to support the obscene consumption and accumulation of the ruling class?"

The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist

Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble

Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe

Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review

For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review

Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture

Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag

Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)

Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist

Degrowth and the South

"Southern countries should be free to organize their resources and labor around meeting human needs rather than around servicing Northern growth."

Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation

The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel

Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts | Resilience

Journals/Reports

Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel

Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario | Global Environmental Change

Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy

Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber

Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau

Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature

A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel

Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters

Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries | The Lancet

Books

Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press

A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books

The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books

The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito

Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation

27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis

Videos

Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School

How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism

How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate

Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan

Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical

Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through

The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG

"Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media

Others

degrowth.info

Degrowth Journal

Doughnut Economics

[kingcatnine]

the thing about nonfiction is you come out of it with several more books to put on your to be read list and it's only gonna branch out from there so really the only solution is to read every book in human history starting at the beginning

[crypitd]

Throwback (Bird) Thursday featuring the Kererū, New Zealand wood pigeon!

The precursor of Fat Bird Friday, here's the original post.

»   Etsy  •  Various Links   «

© Harlen Chen

[accessible-art]

[ID from Alt:

Image 1: A digital painting of a Kererū bird, a New Zealand wood pigeon. A large, wide portrait, from the belly up, face slightly tilts to the right, showing the left side of the face more. Plumage consists of a iridescent green–blue head that reaches to its chest in a ruffled pattern, a pink beak, and a light grey body, shaded all around; including a reddish purple wine coloured wing. All on a light orange background, with a cast shadow of the pigeon.

Image 2: Same image as before, except zoomed in more on it's face. End ID]

[taudad]

Classic T’au Sept art just hits different. No shade to Vior’la, but the art just doesn’t have the same impact

[soul-luminnous-eyes]

Annie Haine

Afternoon sun bathing, n/d, watercolor, 11x14 in

Website

[evilsoup]

everyone who has pretended that there are "legitimate concerns" about immigration at play in british politics these last few decades bears responsibility for the pogrom in belfast. It's racism; it has always been racism.

[sysid-ace]

🌂 when you Fucking Ask people in a casual setting what they mean when they say immigration is a big problem and the universe's d20 comes up on a 4 or lower and they pause, maybe stammer about, knowing they don't want to say something obviously racist and just reiterate that it Is a problem

🌂 jesus christ...

[evilsoup]

We need a muscular multiculturalism. We need mass antifascism and anti-racism -- there needed to be thousands mobilised on the streets against the hundreds of pogromists -- but we also need the positive message of diversity backed up by a pro-diversity, pro-multiculturalism street movement.

There is also, blatantly, a need to kneecap the social media companies. I've said this before but: if a platform uses an algorithmic feed then there is an editorial decision being made, and so x, facebook, etc, should be regulated as publishers and legally responsible for every post they publish. So much of this shit is driven by social media shit, by companies using this pretence that they're a neutral platform like royal mail or a telephone company while openly shaping british politics to a trumpist agenda.

[eightmegs]

I think it's worth noting as well that the loyalist groups who are currently spearheading this year's pogrom have a huge amount of experience with ethnic cleansing and have been tolerated by the British government for decades because they're politically convenient to have around. I know someone from Antrim Town who had to leave in 2002 because her house was firebombed because they were Irish Catholics living in what the loyalists decided was "their" area. The reason why Northern Ireland is such a flashpoint for racist rioting bolstered by racist "legitimate concerns" rhetoric (see: the pogrom in Ballymena last year) is the open tolerance and, at times, support by the British government of an openly fascist movement that has been ongoing in fits and starts since 1609.

Every year on the eleventh of July, enormous bonfires are built across Northern Ireland and adorned with Irish flags, along with photographs and effigies of Irish politicians or people from Northern Ireland who vocally identify as Irish in public life more generally, along with the flags of groups British loyalists perceive as being connected to Ireland; Palestinian flags have been a common sight on loyalist bonfires for decades.

The "KAT" acronym crudely scrawled on the Irish flag at the centre of the image stands for "Kill All Taigs", with "taig" being a slur for Irish people derived from the given name "Tadhg". The "Stop the Boats" rhetoric of the broader British far-right is present too, but it takes a backseat to the age old bigotry which sees Belfast divided by literal walls on lines of ethnic cleansing and pogroms perpetrated by the grandparents of, parents of, and, in many cases, the same people who participated in Monday night's pogrom.

The pogroms in Ballymena last year and in Belfast this week are, however, different from what's happened in the past not only because the targets have moved from Irish Catholics to essentially anyone who isn't white, but because for the first time in history the Irish far-right and the British Loyalist far-right are collaborating. Two factions whose ideologies are diametrically opposed have managed to find common ground on a shared belief in the great replacement conspiracy theory after centuries of mutual animosity, and as an Irish person who spent the first twenty years of my life there, that fucking terrifies me. In the past, we were spared the kind of organised fascism that plagued the United Kingdom since the 1930s because of the simple reality that Irish nationalist groups typically leaned left or far-left with right-wing groups existing only on the fringes while British nationalists, which is what so called "loyalists" really are, leaned to the right or far-right with virtually no left-wing fringe at all.

[cathkaesque]

Also worth remembering that loyalist terrorism has links to fascist terrorism in Britain as well - the Combat 18 paramilitary group had deep links with the Ulster Defence Association, being supplied with weapons, safe houses and training by the loyalists

[yamada-ryo]

I didn't think that it could get any worse after google decided to show jermasus as the main image result for searching "jerma" but clearly I've been proven wrong because the new image is truly much much worse

[casiodyke]

what the fuck

[sackboy166]

right now it's this

[probablyasocialecologist]

The second major expectation gap highlighted by Zheshang Securities is that the carbon-based supply shock triggered by El Niño could prematurely burst the silicon-based inflation bubble. The transmission mechanism clearly unfolds in two layers. The first layer involves a direct tightening of carbon-based resource supply. Intense rainfall induced by El Niño has temporarily disrupted mining operations and logistics in key South American copper-producing regions such as Chile and Peru, leading to tightened industrial metal supplies and an upward shift in price levels. Currently, LME aluminum has entered a backwardation structure, while the copper market is generally in a devaluation phase following the 2025 squeeze. Meanwhile, extreme summer heat in the southwestern United States—particularly in the ERCOT grid in Texas and California’s power grid—will significantly increase cooling-related electricity demand, testing the marginal capacity of energy infrastructure. The second layer involves the transmission of carbon-based cost increases into the silicon-based industrial chain. Industrial metals such as copper, which serve as foundational materials for grid upgrades, transformer manufacturing, and data center infrastructure, will directly raise the marginal capital expenditure costs for upstream AI development. During summer peaks in electricity demand driven by extreme heat, high-power AI computing clusters may face localized or temporary electricity allocation constraints due to potential conflicts between their energy-intensive operations and residential electricity needs, thereby imposing physical limits on the linear expansion expectations for computing infrastructure. These rising external costs will further amplify financial vulnerabilities within the silicon-based industrial chain. Currently, general-purpose large AI models in the downstream segment are engaged in intense price competition, with commercial monetization lagging significantly and heavy reliance on primary market financing. When macroeconomic inflationary pressures and rising supply chain costs transmit to tech firms—widening credit spreads and driving up financing costs—the cash burn rates of compute-focused startups lacking self-sustaining revenue will accelerate, putting at risk the valuation premium previously expected to persist until 2027.

2 June 2026

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tl;dr the 2026-27 El Niño could cause the AI bubble to pop

[oneinchbarrier]

"Then, miraculously, early in the morning, there’s this ray of sunlight appearing on this wall in front of him. And it falls through the little tree in front of the window. There is this play of leaves and sunlight and shadows moving, and he looks at it and stares at it and he starts crying, because he’s never seen anything so beautiful. He probably has seen it, but he hasn’t noticed. Then he realizes that’s the answer to his existential crisis, to become somebody who notices that."

[leviathan-supersystem]

Hegseth warns Cuba against acquiring weapons in visit to Guantánamo Bay

US defense secretary continues ramp-up of pressure against country including sanctions and devastating oil blockade

guy who's been threatening to break into your house and kill you in your sleep for months unprovoked says "also don't buy a gun btw"

[sivavakkiyar]

you know back then they didn’t use to romanticize the past

[theonion]

Nonchalantly bringing up the act of violent resistance while discussing a fun evening she had with her friends, local mom Rebecca Peters casually mentioned Wednesday to her son Miles that her bunco group had thrown Molotov cocktails at ICE the previous week. “Yeah, me and the bunco gals lit a few liquor bottles on fire and tossed them at ICE agents the other day, and I won $5 in our game!” said Peters, adding that her “lucky roll” of three sixes was the “highlight” of a lively Friday spent drinking mojitos and immolating masked federal immigration officers.

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[disco-dancing-in-the-desert]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Everybody Hates Data Centers

Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight.

The tech and fossil fuel industries are two of the biggest sections of the ruling class backing Trump and the current transformation of the U.S. into a more openly authoritarian state. But fissures are starting to open up within sections of the grassroots MAGA movement. First, Steve Bannon and other MAGA activists expressed their racist, anti-immigrant opposition to Big Tech’s desire to grant visas to highly skilled workers. MAGA members have also expressed dissent for the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, as well as the broader U.S. policy of providing Israel with financial and military support, including throughout its genocide of Palestinians and its war on Lebanon. Now many people who voted for Trump several times are opposing the construction in their communities of the tech industry’s sacred data centers. As Indigenous people, union organizers, and those on the left come into contact with these disgruntled Trumpists, the opportunity exists to develop mutual understandings. Perhaps these encounters will widen the worldview of those who follow Trump and who are hostile to other working people, including those who have recently arrived in the U.S. looking for a better life. The process of widening a person’s worldview entails hard discussions. If we approach these with a strong understanding of the material grievances that draw people toward Trumpism, we can use the space of the emerging, imperfect coalitions against the data centers to create openings to redirect anger away from scapegoats and toward the systems of power driving ecological destruction, exploitation, and war. This presents an opportunity to cultivate a unifying understanding of the role of class oppression and how to resist capitalist exploitation.

5 June 2026

[probablyasocialecologist]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews. In this case, Google's AI had wrongly linked two publishers to scams and shady business practices. The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves.

9 June 2026

[weepingwitch]

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

[probablyasocialecologist]

Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?

Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a

The homogenization of vastly different histories into a grand narrative of Jewish trauma points to a desire to tell a palatable story about how Zionism became hegemonic in American Jewish life. Like the original deployment of the lachrymose conception of Jewish history, it relieves Jews of political agency while making historic trauma the focal point of Jewish identity. This time, what gets lost in the mythologized Jewish past is an understanding of the political, economic, and social forces that shaped what scholar Shaul Magid calls the “Zionization of American Jewish life,” like the centralization of financial and communal resources by Jewish communal leadership toward support for the State of Israel. Zionism was not simply adopted by a terrified rank-and-file American Jewry, nor is it a trauma response today; it was, and is, a political project, with specific and evolving strategies aimed at particular, and—it should be emphasized—violent aims.

16 April 2026