Today my focus will again be on degrowth, because the more we all learn, the better each of us can answer questions from others who might not understand the concepts of degrowth or post-growth, and who want to know more about that.
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Today my focus will again be on degrowth, because the more we all learn, the better each of us can answer questions from others who might not understand the concepts of degrowth or post-growth, and who want to know more about that.
If our global society has any chance of moving in this direction, toward true sustainability (not counterfeit ‘Green Growth’) and toward much-needed social justice, it will take all of us working together, teaching, motivating, assisting. YOU have a part to play, a big part, and learning where we must go and can go is the first step.
Now, I harbor no illusions that this will be easy. The plutocrats in charge of everything will strongly resist any suggestion that they should stop chasing after more power, more money, and even greater inequality. The odds of achieving all this peacefully and pleasantly are stacked highly against us.
But we will never succeed if we don’t try.
And even if we fail to achieve global agreement on degrowth in time, which is likely, even if climate chaos accelerates and our complex modern industrial society totally breaks down — even then, the things we learn now about living more simply and sustainably, more in harmony with our environment, more cooperatively and communally with others — all this knowledge will be extremely valuable to those struggling to survive in the aftermath of collapse.
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