dude people keep calling me a fascist degrowther on tumblr for saying maybe the first world will have to adjust to minor lifestyle changes in any effective plan to stop climate change. is this this source?
usually it's the other way around, that for the west to now impose standards of "degrowth" on the over exploited/ underdeveloped rest of world for the sake of climate would hinder their development and contribute to maintenance of hegemony
I think it's the capitalists themselves that try and divert any energy behind degrowth away from themselves and towards what you describe. Like, degrowth is a mathematical necessity. As a species, we are using up resources at a very unsustainable rate. Degrowth coupled with global socialism can be equitable to the global south. But degrowth fundamentally breaks capitalism, so trying to do it while maintaining capitalism would indeed just maintain hegemony.
dude people keep calling me a fascist degrowther on tumblr for saying maybe the first world will have to adjust to minor lifestyle changes in any effective plan to stop climate change. is this this source?
Isn't degrowth just "halting the drive for endless accumulation and growth, one of capitalism's core faults" anyhow?
usually it's the other way around, that for the west to now impose standards of "degrowth" on the over exploited/ underdeveloped rest of world for the sake of climate would hinder their development and contribute to maintenance of hegemony
I think it's the capitalists themselves that try and divert any energy behind degrowth away from themselves and towards what you describe. Like, degrowth is a mathematical necessity. As a species, we are using up resources at a very unsustainable rate. Degrowth coupled with global socialism can be equitable to the global south. But degrowth fundamentally breaks capitalism, so trying to do it while maintaining capitalism would indeed just maintain hegemony.