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If we look at the news and who is in charge now, it seems to be very unlikely that #globalwarming will be limited to 1.5°C. All the #climate conferences and international agreements are useless if our world leaders insist on fighting each other who has the biggest kingdom or continue to follow the "business as usual" scenario in the #limitstogrowth simulation. Is it inevitable that the world is heading towards disaster and a likely #collapse of civilisation? Why can't our leaders sit together, eat some Shakshouka and forget their petty differences about who is the strongest so that we can start to address the real problems?
news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1

UN News · Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5°C limit in next five yearsFact: 2024 was the warmest year on record – but the heat is far from over. A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that global temperatures will likely continue rising, with an 80 per cent chance that at least one year between now and 2029 will be even hotter.

Limits to Growth was right about collapse.

"This improved parameter set results in a World3 simulation that shows the same overshoot and collapse mode in the coming decade as the original business as usual scenario of the LtG standard run."

resilience.org/stories/2025-05

resilience · Limits to Growth was right about collapseThe only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

"...As the system constantly (re)produces inequality, it is very hard to correct it with policies.

When growth stops, discontentment spreads; the inequality and the associated powerlessness are major components of the political backlash against globalization and its complexity."

Article: resilience.org/stories/2025-05

Poverty & Progress Essay: gardenearth.substack.com/p/pov

The Collapse of Complex Societies book: bookshop.org/p/books/the-colla

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Sure, we have moved on 20yrs since then but lately I'm more inclined to think we have opportunity to still move in this direction. That we are maybe a little less constrained by the physics of the system (not saying there are no constraints of course!) but politics and social organisation is still key.

The correct take on this is that some (clean, socially relevant) sectors of the economy must grow while others must contract, but within an overall envelope of massive, managed and socially just reduction of overall energy and material flows.

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says | Green economy | The Guardian
theguardian.com/environment/20




The Guardian · Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI saysBy Damian Carrington

Now that we are reaching #limitstogrowth worldwide some of us are wondering where the imperative for growth which is so destructive and devastating for #nature comes from.

Stock markets, corporations and their relentless desire for constant #growth have their roots in European #colonialism and #imperalism. Joint-stock companies like the East India Company, the Virginia Company, the British South Africa Company or the South Sea Company helped to build the British empire as Philip J. Stern describes in his book [1].

This joint-stock venture colonialism laid the foundation for modern corporations and stock markets. The British East India Company, French Mississippi Company, Dutch East India Company, and German Brandenburg African Company were the first European stock corporations.

Investment in joint-stock companies allowed investors including the royal family itself to gain large profits at high risks, similar to investors in whaling ventures which shared risks and profits. Modern venture capital was born, and venture colonialism turned over time into venture capitalism [2]. In this sense colonialism enabled imperialism and led to #capitalism.

[1] Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism, Philip J. Stern, Harvard University Press, 2023
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749

[2] VC: An American History, Tom Nicholas, Harvard University Press, 2019
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749