Claudio: must press governments but it isn't enough. Show the government through personal action [but are they going to listen??]
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#DegrowthOslo25 Livestream now.
https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream
Sizing sufficiency: Contested framings of scarcity and limits.
Inge Røpke first.
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Not much livetooting happening from #DegrowthOslo25 #IseeDegrowth25 so far, but @degrowthuk putting in an heroic effort.
#degrowth #EcologicalEconomics #AlternativØkonomi
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Turns out that Piketty is regarded by feminists at #DegrowthOslo25 as a domestic abuser following revelations - an old allegation from 2009 resurfaced last year leading to a new complaint of defamation against him from his former partner. FADA, feminists in the #degrowth movement, circulated a […]
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But then suggests solution is a new kind of money, which is a category error in my (MB) view.
He's right that the key is unequal resource and energy transfer.
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Now Alf Hornberg.
"Coming to our senses beyond the hubristic pretensions of green technology".
Jaspers: 'Axial Age' - Ancient Greece, India, China - first coined money - exchange value, distancing from the material world. Dualism of spirit and matter.
2nd axial age - believe in progress - again […]
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Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction […]
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#DegrowthOslo25 morning plenary on livestream: https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream shorltly.
"Confronting Inequalities in the Green Transition" with Piketty, Hornborg, Njoroge Njehû - chair Steinberger.
#Inequality #GreenTransition
And for the UK, see our proposals on redistribution in […]
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Must be about reparation.
Debt for mitigation swaps.
Not about replacing one energy source with another but about transforming the economy - not just technical but civilisational change.
No democracy without environmental justice.
No future if we fail to act now.
South needs a just pathway […]
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Inaugural address from Irene Vélez-Torres.
After 500 years of extractivism and colonialism in Colombia, she speaks for a government trying to end that.
Huge challenge when such revenues come from coal, oil and gas extraction with devastating impact on ecosystems and health. Extraction of value […]
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He goes on,
Don't assume populist movements are inherently anti-green. Why are governments subsidising the wealthy (e-car subsidies in Norway).
We need to rediscover #Equality - not shallow moralism or meritocracy (equal opportunities). Not a point of departure but point of arrival.
Degrowth […]
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At #DegrowthOslo25 Conference chair Erik Gómez notes that when the Great Financial Crash and the Covid pandemic struck, we were not ready.
Green Parties largely domesticated.
Left parties often seem to be looking down on people.
We shouldn't be trying to educate people but to learn from them […]
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Watching the conference intro now: https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream
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Petro only had to pull out this week due to the situation of political violence in Colombia.
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