Stoknes PE, Collste D, E. Cornell S, et al. The Earth4All scenarios: human wellbeing on a finite planet towards 2100. Open access. Global Sustainability. 2025;8:e22. #Limitstogrowth www.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10013
Stoknes PE, Collste D, E. Cornell S, et al. The Earth4All scenarios: human wellbeing on a finite planet towards 2100. Open access. Global Sustainability. 2025;8:e22. #Limitstogrowth www.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10013
and those libs who somehow got that exponential growth of the economy is the problem, but don't think #capitalism is also the problem and that there could be a #steadystate economy with capitalism:
what fucking planet are you even inhabiting, bro.
who bought trumps election? what class of people bought trumps election?
... and you guys pretend to understand feedbacks?
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?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163751
Well today there's a big discussion on Gelmans blog of what is #capitalism and how does it differ from markets and there's some talk on #environmental #economics and #limitstogrowth etc... Check it out here
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/26/capitalism-as-the-antimarket/
Someone sent me a link to an audio recording about #LimitsToGrowth and #Collapse.
I couldn't open it because it went to a paywall called spotifie or something like that.
Ironic.
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."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/
"...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: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/complexity-energy-people-and-inequality/
Poverty & Progress Essay: https://gardenearth.substack.com/p/poverty-and-progress
The Collapse of Complex Societies book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-collapse-of-complex-societies-joseph-tainter/6554178
"As one of the Limits’ authors, Dennis Meadows, always insisted when asked, technology can delay a peak, but the crash comes harder when it comes."
Kicking the can down the road doesn't get rid of the can, class.
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/
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.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2025/05/off-the-marx-hitler-spectrum/
My German student sent me that blog article and it looks like I should get in touch with that physics professor at UCSD because he's one of the few people I've seen writing that kinda stuff outside of the fediverse at least. #anarchy #ecology #limitstogrowth
"The issue we are facing is really a physics problem. Governments can print money, but they cannot print resources, especially energy resources."
Brace for rapid changes in the economy
Our Finite World
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/04/24/brace-for-rapid-changes-in-the-economy-the-world-economy-is-reaching-limits-to-growth/
#LimitsToGrowth #degrowth
honestly, i am somewhat relieved ugo bardi didn't become a full blown lunatic like most of the other 2nd generation of collapseologists.
feels good to read someone who thinks like me. has been a lonely time since the whole jill stein drama destroyed my community.
Ich bin pleite, aber lass mich tanzen auf der Schwelle zu diesem neuen Leben, das kein Geld braucht um wirklich zu sein.
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I'm broke, but let me dance at the edge of this new life that doesn't need money to be real.
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
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/britain-net-zero-economy-booming-cbi-green-sector-jobs-energy-security
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
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674988125
[2] VC: An American History, Tom Nicholas, Harvard University Press, 2019
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674988002