Post-capitalist #degrowth now

Economic growth likes to pretend that it has made the world a better place... but it is not being honest. We are facing- "the greatest emergency of our existence – a crisis far deeper & more complex than many yet recognise." https://t.co/6lLXuRGfiz

NEWS: The fossil fuel industry is now using secretive international tribunals to sue countries that try to reduce carbon emissions.

Venetia’s Appeal against her prison sentence was dismissed The judge repeated the words of colleagues in saying that the home tutor’s actions were an ‘attack on the rule of law’. More judicial stupidity The @JudiciaryUK are showing again that they are complicit in genocide.

Another fossil fuel project that's been approved in the UK. More to come. https://t.co/D4XMxYJbgR

The Cost of Living crisis is a disaster. But wait till you see the Cost of Inaction crisis.

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The Morning Star is the only UK media outlet to report a Spanish court summoning ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo to testify on his agency’s reported plans to assassinate an award-winning journalist in London. Orwellian doesn’t do what we are seeing justice. https://t.co/NBJkEPkU6l

Perfect illustration of displacement activity. The government mulls reducing smokers to 5% of the population by 2030, while it continues to pump out greenhouse gases that by that same year will have made climate breakdown irreversible

Paul Mason has become a laughing stock, even on the soft left, for his ever more outrageous authoritarianism. But it's no laughing matter: leaked emails suggest he's covertly plotting with an intelligence-linked contractor to destroy independent media

@timparrique @PJ_Jacks ✅ Consuming Ourselves Out Of Existence. The limitations of #GDP as a true measure of #wellbeing. by @DrDCWahl By increasing consumption, so the story goes, the #economy grows and collective #wellbeing grows with it. 🔺THIS IS A FALLACY #ecosystems #nature https://t.co/fyyhdTlgX4

Breaking news: Yorkshire town takes stand against junk food advertising https://t.co/4zzu4qZ6XA @Childrensfood

R&D members @g_kallis and @AljosaSlamersak appear on Catalan tv and urge us to rethink global economic policies to avoid a climate crisis

We're excited to be part of @YorkFestofIdeas this year, hosting a @localfutures_ screening and discussion on 20th June from 6.00 pm in person! Part of #WorldLocalizationDay too. @PhilBixby @HelenGraham64 @juliadavis111 @imeldahavers @Jane_Hustwit https://t.co/uJKu8NG5I7

How do we advance #agroecology and develop local economies that will challenge and reverse neoliberal globalisation? Join us on #WorldLocalizationDay as local community leaders and advocates describe how they do #AgroecologyInAction! 🍃🥬👩‍🌾 REGISTER 👉 https://t.co/HEce58cJXY

Fringe Farming event on 14 June - a chance for us to convince parliamentarians and policy makers to put local agroecological food growing enterprises and supply chains on the agenda @UKsustain . Do join us online.

"Although its message applies to the whole world, in practice it's rich people & rich countries, including Australia, that must reduce their energy consumption (& hence their consumption)" Mark Diesendorf #Degrowth https://t.co/eu71aOYiwL

“People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on... This will be greater than anything we have ever seen in the past. This will be unprecedented. Every living thing will be affected.”

Michelle Charlesworth has been released from HMP Foston Hall where she served 2 weeks for Contempt of Court Read why Michelle stepped up into #CivilResistance here - https://t.co/1WadN9KZWj @GhostPanther @GeorgeMonbiot @JKSteinberger @GreenRupertRead @CarolineLucas #JustStopOil

"The report's most infamous scenario — the Business as Usual (BAU) scenario — predicted that the world's economic growth would peak around the 2040s, then take a sharp downturn, along with the global population, food availability and natural resources. https://t.co/dUe19YC8t9

Species most at risk of 21st century extinction: trees, crop plants, pollinators, amphibians, primates 🧵