• for: Johan Rockstrom - wellbeing economy, wellbeing economy, green growth, degrowth, question, question - Johan Rockstrom - green growth or degrowth?
• question
  • Does Johan Rockstrom advocate for a green economy or degrowth?
  • He would seem to be arguing for green growth as degrowth, if not done extremely carefully, can result in a drop in wellbeing.
  • How does he see this taking place when the elites perceive that they have the most (at least materially) to give up? Is there a contradiction here?

• for: KLM cap, air travel cap, flight cap, degrowth
• comment
  • “In a few months’ time, this government will not be accountable for the severe consequences that may follow from the Schiphol decision, particularly with respect to relations with the Netherlands’ trading partners, and lost jobs and prosperity at home,”
  • This comment ONLY refers to things economic, and NOTHING to climate boiling, which air travel is a significant contributor to.'
  • If they saw it coming from years ago, why did they not adapt? It is their failure to adapt itself that places themselves in a self-created position of vulnerability
  • During a transition as unprecedented as this, the governments of the world must invoke policy that gives protection to workers in industries such as the airline industry and all industries downstream of it so that they can survive the transition as such jobs vanish or morph.
    • Indeed, this is one of the major tenets of degrowth advocates. A Universal Basic Income and job retraining to sustainable jobs is the responsible thing to do to protect from job losses.

• for: degrowth, air travel cap, KLM cap,

• comment

  • incomprehensible is defined as :
    • impossible to comprehend : unintelligible.
    • https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incomprehensible

  • yet on KLM's website, they appear aware of climate change and even make the following commitment:

    • https://news.klm.com/klm-groups-co2-emission-reduction-targets-for-2030-approved-by-sbti/
    • "KLM Group’s CO2 emission reduction targets for 2030 approved by SBTi
    • Together with Air France-KLM and Air France, the KLM Group commits to reducing its CO2 emissions by 30% per revenue tonne kilometre (RTK) by 2030, compared to base year 2019; -The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved that – in compliance with the Paris Agreement – the emission reduction target for 2030 adheres to the well-below 2°C trajectory; -The validation marks an important milestone in KLM’s sustainability roadmap, which encompasses actions aimed at achieving its 2030 CO2 reduction target."

  • Clearly, they understand the intent of this action. It is not "incomprehensible" KLM language attempts to convey that the cap is not informed by rational thinking, while the rationale is quite obvious.

  • KLM officials must be aware of the record breaking extreme weather events as well as the dire climate situation and planetary tipping points, yet they are not including this in their media statement. All they mention is the economic impact on the
  • Logically, fossil fuel dependent businesses such as the airline industry will fight hard to keep their business alive.Government has to regulate when industry and society are too slow to respond to existential threats such as global boiling.
  • Perhaps a more transparent response would be to say they don't agree with it because they want to continue BAU and are against measures that significantly impact their bottom line, even if it is necessary for the survival of our civilization.

• for: degrowth, polycrisis, simplification
• title: Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
• author: Mike Joy
• date: Aug. 15, 2023
• source: https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496

• for: energy diet, energy fast, degrowth, agriculture emissions, food system emissions

• for: energy diet, energy fast, degrowth, aircraft emissions, travel emissions

• for: net zero, kick the can down the road, green growth, degrowth, NET, negative emissions technology

• Title
  • Cap top 20% of energy users to reduce carbon emissions

• Publication

  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230717175940.htm

• Summary -Consumers in the richer, developed nations will have to accept restrictions on their energy use

  • if international climate change targets are to be met, warn researchers.
  • The big challenge is to identify the fairest and most equitable way
  • that governments can curtail energy use,
    • a process known as energy demand reduction. -The research team analyzed several scenarios to identify a potential solution.

• Title
  • Corporations can't be greened

• Author Erin Remblance

• Description

  • The author argues that corporations cannot be greened.
  • In other words, by definition, they cannot put nature ahead of profit and this inherent flaw means they will never do enough, and will never transcend greenwashing
  • The real question then is this
    • Can we transition to a green capitalist economy within planetary boundaries in time to avoid planetary tipping points?

• 21:52 Carbon credits, carbon markets
  • it's a scam designed to perpetuate fossil fuel use, in a phoney war against the climate crisis
  • Offsets were designed to allow polluters to pay others to create schemes that would compensate or "offset" that pollution. The classic example WAS afforestation, the planting of trees that can sequester that carbon.
  • Carbon neutrality comes from this idea that you can keep polluting if you offset it and become "carbon neutral"
  • A company may decarbonize a lot of their supply chain but may struggle to get rid of airflights around the world. In that case, they use offsets. When companies analyze the very difficult choices, they take the easy way out and use carbon offsets
  • However, there is so much offsets for afforestation now that there isn't enough land on earth
  • Carbon markets are a recipe for grifting and fraud or zero impacts
    • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe
  • This is the current state of offsets

31:00 Shell oil carbon offset greenwashing scam - the sky zero proposal - Shell claims they can offset all the O+G emissions out of the ground - it is preposterous - there's not enough land on earth when you tally up all the carbon offset afforestation schemes

• 32:30 Neo-colonialism

  • rich white man can offset his emissions by buying land from a developing nation. Now the indigenous people cannot use that land for any reason.
  • also, will require huge amount of water to grow those trees
  • we don't have enough land and we don't have 100 years, only 5 years.
  • nature-based solutions are an industrial, myopic approach

• 37:00 Deferred Emission Reduction

  • a lot of carbon credits are called deferred emission reduction credits.
  • this is avoided emissions - ie. trees in a forest with 100 ton of sequestering potential
  • this is promise to not destroy the biosphere any further so it's not removing any existing carbon
  • maybe multiple people might own the same forest, or someone might come along and burn it down
  • Trees are vulnerable to climate impacts - ie. Microsoft bought a large forest in California that later burned down in a climate change intensified wildfire

• 40:00 can we do anything within the extractive capitalist system?

  • some people claim that as long as extractivist capitalism still persists, we cannot have system change
  • also a neocolonialist element - global north exploited the global south to create most of the emissions in the atmospheric commons
  • a number of people are beginning to see that an extractivist capitalist system is not in line with effectively addressing the climate crisis
  • wind, solar, etc has displaced electricity generation in a number of countries like in the UK. However, these are only a few countries.Renewables are helping increase overall energy production

• 44:22: Stop burning fossil fuels

  • t doesn't matter if investments in renewables triple. It won't make a difference if we don't significantly stop burning fossil fuels at the same time.

• 47:00 economic growth prevents real change

  • Insisting on 1, 2 or 3% growth, will limit the response to the climate threat to render it irrelevant
  • Climate change is still mostly an optimization problem. They are more concerned with economic damage.
  • Economists believe that anything that threatens economic growth cannot be accepted

• 51:00 Degrowth making headway

  • Degrowth scholars are getting more attention on the need to decouple economic grwoth from climate policies

• 52:10 Is there a positive future scenario - The role of solidarity

  • Solidarity is the greatest strength we can harness.
  • The success of Doughnut Economics gives me hope
  • The richest 1% must reign in their impacts and redistribute to allow the impoverished to live humane lives
  • We can all have good lives and we don't have to manufacture that wonder
  • This is what it is to be human

Dieser Aufsatz ist eine argumentativ durchgeführte Übersicht zu ökonomischen Konzepten für eine regenerative Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Die Autor:innen verarbeiten sehr viel und – so weit ich das beurteilen kann – sehr relevante Literatur, und sie bringen dabei unterschiedliche Stränge zusammen. Zentrale Positionen sind dabei die biophysikalisch begründetet Kritik an der Wachstumsökonomie durch Georgescu-Roegen und seine Nachfolger, die Historisierung von Märkten duch Karl Polanyi, die institutionelle Ökonomie sowie Ansätze der Social and Solidarity Economy.

from: video 7.106.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyKaWAcpqjo

Peter Kropotkin has a book on Mutual Aid that Frank Bisse recommends.

Heinz on content strategy for degrowth. Referenced in my blog https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/10192/ this day in 2019.

!- for : metals for energy transition - only have 19% of metals required for the first generation of phase out

!- key finding : green growth is not likely to be feasible - Simple diagram that illustrates the problem

!- for : metals for energy transition - unfeasible numbers

!- for : metals for energy transition - not feasible

!- key insight : not enough mineral capacity to buildout replacement green growth, renewable energy system !- for : degrowth vs green growth

Title: Assessment of extra capacity required of alternative energy electrical power systems to completely replace fossil fuels Author: Prof. Simon Michaux, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) Year: 2022

Really? Where is the evidence that this is true? It isntan either or, but an and....

we hebben niet zoveel spullen nodig

Also see Apoptosis

The limits of this approach are the fixation on an economic evaluation of ecosystem “services”, connected to believing in green growth and not croticizing commodification as depending on capitalism.

Ich finde, dass das Zitat ganz gut zeigt, was das Beondere am Zugang von Kate Raworth ist: Die Verknüpfung von konkreter Aktion mit einem Konzept für eine neue Ökonomie. Dieser Zugang steht für mich in der Tradition der anarchistischen Praxis, die Veränderung sofort vornimmt.

Gutes zusammfassendes Blogpost zu der Studie Scientists’ warning on affluence | Nature Communications von einem ihrer Autoren.

Zum STS der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und des Konzeptwerks Neue Ökonomie. Argumentation dafür, dass mit einem Degrowth-Szenario das 1,5°-Ziel noch zu erreichen ist.

Aktualisierte Version einer Kritik an B. Milanovic, mit sehr viel neuen Referenzen zur Decoupling-Debatte.

Detailliert und präzise weist @JasonHickel das Anti-Degrowth-Pamphlet von Andrew McAfee in Wired zurück.

Kurze und polemische Zusammenfassung ökomodernistischer Argumente gegen degrowth-Konzepte

Was könnte das für eine Content strategy 4 degrowth bedeuten?

1. Sie findet in einer heterogenen/hybriden Umgebung statt.
2. Sie bezieht immer auch nichtmenschliche Stakeholder ein.
3. Sie hängt von einer genauen Analyse der Situation ab, die diese nicht nur abbildet, sondern verändert.
4. Sie ist auf Kollaboration angelegt.

Interview mit dem gerade gestorbenen David Graeber über bullshit jobs. Interessant ist seine Betonung der care jobs. We bezeichnet sich als Schüler von Marshall Sahlins.

Grundlegende Studie zur Möglichkeit einer Entkopplung von Wachstum und Ressourcenverbrauch.

Wichtig sind auch die Grafiken über den weltweiten Verbrauch an materiellen Ressourcen und die Verweise auf entsprechende Studien.

Bericht über eine Studie über die ökologischen Folgen der Hightech-Branche und von modernen Services. Bezieht man die Folgen des Konsums der Angestellten ein, ist die ökologische Bilanz des Hightech-Sektors schlechter als die von herkömmlichen schmutzigen Branchen.

This loosely couples with the degrowth discourses around steady state economies and possible political ecologies

We visited this project as part of the project Travel for Transition.

There will be a lot to discover. Mapbox is using a linter to ease the language in documentation, for example.

Which are these in self-organized contexts?

Interesting to consider in community-supported, federated economies of practice.

It's strange how he sees this crazy-well-designed city happening but not a transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor.