CIRCLE WITH A DOT

RE: https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/116284018789116657#degrowth makes it into a leading UK left-wing magazine. Expect more.Also a nice feature on pioneering ecosocialist and Marxist cultural analyst, Raymond Williams.

@urlyman Available. Readily available is another thing.

"A government led by the Green party would not set targets for GDP growth but would instead focus on people’s mental health, social cohesion and community welfare, Zack Polanski has said in a major speech to set out his plans for the economy.Asked about how a Green government would pay for all this, Polanski said the UK needed to “exit the bond market doom loop” with a rethink of economic rules."Nice to see critical views of growth economics from UK Greens as well #ukpol #greens #degrowth https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/zack-polanski-says-greens-would-ditch-gdp-targets-and-focus-on-wellbeing-instead

Recommended Reading: A compelling case from a business perspective. (Just the first four paragraphs are excellent.) "So the real conversation...is not about artificial intelligence at all. It is about the purpose of money: Is it a tool for building things that matter, or just a way of keeping score in a game that is making us all miserable? It is about what growth even means when the planet is on fire and loneliness is an epidemic and the average worker hasn't had a real raise in 40 years."https://bigthink.com/the-long-game/it-was-never-about-ai-we-are-not-our-tools/#SolarPunkSunday #Business #Degrowth #AI

A #degrowth ecosocial response to the fascist threat.The Social Forum in Spain proposes a common roadmap for the ecosocial transition | International Degrowth Networkhttps://www.degrowth.network/news/2026-03-12-the-spanish-social-forum/

@alberto_cotticaDegrowth people's front? No, we're the people's front of Degrowth!

"In this confluence of social and ecological crises, we can no longer afford to be unimaginative; we can no longer afford to do without utopian thinking. The crises are too serious and the possibilities too sweeping to be resolved by customary modes of thought — the very sensibilities that produced these crises in the first place. Years ago, the French students in the May-June uprising of 1968 expressed this sharp contrast of alternatives magnificently in their slogan: “Be practical! Do the impossible!” To this demand, the generation that faces the next century can add the more solemn injunction: “If we don’t do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable!” - Murray Bookchin#anarchism #theecologyoffreedom #degrowth

https://peer.adalta.social/w/ur6Vke9SrgV2r69SMRupFy [](https://p4u.xyz/ID_ZSXGFI-0/1) [️](https://www.monbiot.com/2019/04/30/the-problem-is-capitalism/")The foundational conflict of our era is between an infinite-growth economic model and the finite boundaries of a living planet.#climate #taxtherich #climat #onu #degrowth

Having said all that, the data needs a bit more exploration.Scotland's decline began earlier and there is a lag of several years from the start of austerity to the precipitous decline in health: takes time for impacts to be realised? Multiple causes and intermediate processes. Reservoir of health in population gave time-limited protection?

@Mr_Chons Ja, es sagt nichts aus.Trotzdem Lieblingswort von Merz: Wirtschaftswachstum (das am BIP gemessen ist)

The Techno-optimist Dream of Abundance is as Old as Technological Change Itself. John Mulrow responds to the romanticized vision of the future promoted in the book Abundance (by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson).https://gaianway.org/the-techno-optimist-dream-of-abundance-is-as-old-as-technological-change-itself/#GaianWay #Reflection #Technosolutionism #Degrowth