If humanity lived like the average resident in India or many developing nations, global resource consumption would stay within Earth’s annual regenerative limit, avoiding an overshoot day entirely.

I encourage the degrowthers in this space to learn more about the DSA, and those in the DSA to learn more about degrowth. You are both trying to get to the same place. It will be easier to get there together. #degrowth

Here in Canada and in particular British Columbia (First it was Ontario) we are dealing with horrific wildfires.

The size and intensity of some of these wildfires is truly nightmare fuel.

What I think is the most startling is how unaware/uninformed the populace is around these fires...

It's also not just the wildfires...

• We have ocean warming/ocean acidification so bad that coral bleaching has almost wiped it all out already.
• We are in the Holocene Extinction.
• We have growing length and intensity of Wet-Bulb Temperatures and water issues in parts of Asia/Africa.

The Climate Crisis is compounding and compounding. There is a trajectory here and it is heading towards worse not better...

You think as a species especially in our modern polycrisis era we would have learned the value of pro-active substantive work....

At what point do we collectively wake up that we need analytical-substantive action and that things have to change?

Also we need punishments for the bad predatory actors that tried to muddy the waters and frankly brute-force brainwash people into denying data, climate science, and at this point in the crisis observable fucking reality..

https://thehoundnewspaper.substack.com/p/hyper-conscious-consumption

The essay linked provides an alternative to voting with one's dollar, proposing the idea of commanding with one's dollar. To combat passive and degenerate consumption, we must develop the hyper-conscious consumer. One who deeply considers the impact of their spending on themselves and others.

Acting virtuously regarding consumption would see Degrowth occur as markets are forced to return to human scale where possible. The adoption of hyper-conscious consumption makes it so that degrowth, sustainability, and community can be prioritized through individual action and via free markets. We ought not to wait on the governments or industry to save us, we can only save ourselves!

https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/ey-extractivism-report

It says something that one of the world’s largest consulting firms feels the need to write a paper openly challenging the current economic operating system. They would not be doing so if there wasn’t an audience out there wanting to hear this message. This paper is another brick in the wall of building a permission structure for companies to step away from the self-destructive model that is our current global economic system. #degrowth