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(DIR) Post #A5EjmNTcLR3mQKFJJI by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-11T13:46:17Z
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Less is More - Jason Hickel urgent reading, share abundantlyhttps://www.are.na/block/11125640
(DIR) Post #A5EjmNySUljJxyfwNk by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-14T17:19:45Z
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"Remember, this is happening at 1°C. Two degrees will be a death sentence for much of the global South. The only reason that people have come to accept 2°C as a reasonable target is because climate negotiators from the United States and other powerful countries have pushed for it, over the loud objections of their colleagues from the South – and particularly from Africa."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmOvIxynkuUCw6a by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-12T18:10:21Z
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Patrick Colquhoun, Scottish merchant
(DIR) Post #A5EjmQT1E7MbhKzNIG by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-14T19:18:22Z
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(if anyone had read it and wants to share how they are coping I'd be interested, because it has no new facts but still)
(DIR) Post #A5EjmRcyuYvXIWeqSe by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-13T14:59:35Z
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"When Google executives created a new life sciences company in 2015, they named it ‘Verily’. Asked to explain this odd name, Verily’s CEO Andy Conrad said it had been chosen because ‘only through the truth are we going to defeat Mother Nature’."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmSAIufa8xsFSOu by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-14T17:19:56Z
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" When the 2°C target was announced at the Copenhagen summit in 2009, Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese chief negotiator for the G77, said: ‘We have been asked to sign a suicide pact.’ ‘It is unfortunate,’ he went on, ‘that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we are still considered “disposables”. "
(DIR) Post #A5EjmT79NseZuNmS7k by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-13T13:06:38Z
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Writing in the late 1700s, Immanuel Kant, one of Western philosophy’s most celebrated ethicists, wrote: ‘As far as non-humans are concerned, we have no direct duties. They are there merely as the means to an end. The end is man.’(from "Less is More" by Jason Hickel)
(DIR) Post #A5EjmTkV1a83sQBsSO by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-14T19:55:27Z
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on the Paris Agreement and IPCC scenarios being based largely on BECCS
(DIR) Post #A5EjmUhLUnCUovisBE by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-13T14:52:07Z
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"Tellingly, the Spaniards referred to Indigenous Americans as naturales. Dualism was recruited in order to justify the appropriation not only of land in the colonies, but of the bodies of the colonised themselves. So too with the Atlantic slave trade. After all, in order to enslave someone, you first have to deny their humanity."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmVWOR029NFbdkO by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T13:39:25Z
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"Over and over again, the empirical evidence shows that it is possible to achieve high levels of human development without high levels of GDP. According to data from the UN, it is possible for nations to reach the very highest category on the life expectancy index with as little as $8,000 per capita, and very high levels on the education index with as little as $9,000 per capita."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmWUeowEuO9nlgG by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-13T14:52:21Z
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"Dualism served this purpose brilliantly: Africans and Indigenous Americans were cast as objects in the European imagination, and exploited as such. As the Martiniquan writer Aimé Césaire put it, colonisation is, at base, a process of thingification."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmX3Ojm1q7u3VpY by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T13:39:48Z
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"In fact, nations can succeed on a wide range of key social indicators – not just health and education, but also employment, nutrition, social support, democracy and life satisfaction –with as little as $10,000 per capita, while staying within or near planetary boundaries."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmXVP3eQjWl9sTw by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T13:39:56Z
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"What’s remarkable about these figures is that they are less than world average GDP per capita ($11,300). In other words, in theory we could achieve all of these social goals, for every person in the world, without any additional GDP growth at all, simply by investing in public goods, and distributing income and opportunity more fairly."
(DIR) Post #A5EjmZBco9nWjzv6vo by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T14:19:47Z
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"Consider this thought experiment: if Portugal has higher levels of human welfare than the United States with $38000 less GDP per capita, then we can conclude that $38000 of America’s per capita income is effectively ‘wasted’. That adds up to $13 trillion per year for the US economy as a whole. That’s $13 trillion worth of extraction and production and consumption each year, and $13 trillion worth of ecological pressure, that adds nothing, in and of itself, to the fundamentals of human welfare."
(DIR) Post #A5Ejmak31evXZ327E0 by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T14:20:01Z
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"It is damage without gain. This means that the US economy could in theory be scaled down by a staggering 65% from its present size while at the same time improving the lives of ordinary Americans, if income was distributed more fairly and invested in public goods."
(DIR) Post #A5FF6RS6N2Ar7laHlg by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T16:17:43Z
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"Justice is the antidote to the growth imperative – and key to solving the climate crisis.This means fundamentally reversing the economic policies that have dominated for the past forty years. Guided by the dogmas of neoliberalism, governments have privatised public services, slashed social spending, cut wages and labour protections, handed tax cuts to the richest and sent inequality soaring. In an age of climate breakdown, we need to be doing exactly the opposite."
(DIR) Post #A5FF6RpUy2tCIKWyEi by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-15T18:23:29Z
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Frantz Fanon quote
(DIR) Post #A5IXUKumi1l6RqQKVU by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T17:32:38Z
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"[Debt cancellation] would be salutary not just because it would relieve so much genuine human suffering, but also because it would be our way of reminding ourselves that money is not ineffable, that paying one’s debts is not the essence of morality, that all these things are human arrangements and that if democracy is going to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way."David Graeber
(DIR) Post #A5IXULH7MzchZ6sAJk by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T18:39:20Z
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"We have long been told that capitalism and democracy are part of the same package. But in reality the two may well be incompatible. Capital’s obsession with perpetual growth at the expense of the living world runs against the values of sustainability that most of us hold."
(DIR) Post #A5IXULacCVDeXZzjhw by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-16T18:39:29Z
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"When people are given a say in the matter, they end up choosing to manage the economy according to steady-state principles that run counter to the growth imperative. In other words, capitalism has a tendency to be anti-democratic, and democracy has a tendency to be anti-capitalist."
(DIR) Post #A5IXULvAy3fLZLc9ku by sifr@anticapitalist.party
2021-03-17T06:51:35Z
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"degrowth is, ultimately, a process of decolonisation"