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#decroissance

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@randahl
Let's analyze :
- Global > 10k > 30k - x3
- Coal > 4k > 10k > - x2,5
- Gas > 1k > 6,5k - x6,5
- Renewables > 2k > 10k - x5

1st WE MUST DECREASE ! (a.k.a spoil from richest people privacies, put in common and distribute from needed).

2nd COAL is, though it is increasing, the most 'relatively decreasing' ressource.

3rd RENEWABLE (increase) is challenging GAS (one).

I may conclude :
I do disagree your take 'It matters not'. Yes ! It does matter !
let's make the change. #optimisme #militantisme #decroissance

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Guillaume Blanc ⏚

#podcast #podcastgb #decroissance

L'autrice québécoise Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba dans la #TerreAuCarré sur #FranceInter

« Il faut aller étudier en droit, il faut devenir journaliste, il faut être des porte-parole, il faut aussi être des bons parents, il faut apprendre à nos enfants à prendre soin de leur corps, de ne pas se surmener. Il faut revenir à un rythme beaucoup plus lent. C'est ça la décroissance, en fait, c'est dormir plus, lire beaucoup, faire l'amour, marcher. Je pense que si on passait plusieurs heures par jour avec ce programme-là... Puis déjà, on consomme moins, on a moins envie d'aller s'acheter des vêtements neufs parce qu'on est triste, qu'on a une mauvaise estime de soi. Moi, je suis certaine qu'en se donnant beaucoup d'amour, on va influencer plus largement notre cercle d'amis, notre famille. Et de toute façon, les révolutions partent toujours d'en bas. »

Moi, ce programme me conviendrait parfaitement. Et puis écrire aussi, et faire des photos. Na.

radiofrance.fr/franceinter/pod

France Inter · Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba : "C'est ça la décroissance, dormir plus, lire beaucoup, faire l'amour, marcher"À 26 ans, en 2013, l'écrivaine quitte son travail de traductrice à Montréal pour s'installer dans la forêt boréale, dans le Kamouraska. Elle passe un hiver à -30°C dans une cabane, sans eau, ni électricité, "Encabanée" est le récit de ce mois de janvier. Elle revient avec le roman "Hexa".
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Jonathan Schofield

#decroissance #climateDiary
What we don’t get even a nod to in this article, because energy transition journalism seemingly *doesn’t care*, are considerations like:

- what is the carbon footprint of China’s renewables (rebuildables) build out?
- how does it relate to China’s energy demand and on-going trajectory of fossil fuel use?
- what are the implications of having to rebuild it all in about 30 years?
- what does it mean to win a race in which we all might lose?

mastodon.social/@puneetsiingha

MastodonPuneet Singh Singhal (@puneetsiinghal01@mastodon.social)China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week #GreenDisability #ClimateChange #SDGs #China #Sustainability #HumanRights #Poverty #Cinema #Disability #Technology https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640
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Jonathan Schofield

Had a quick read up on NPUs (Neural Processing Unit) on TechRadar – techradar.com/computing/cpu/wh – and am very unsurprised to encounter

“NPUs are paving the way for a smarter, more efficient computing experience”

I have no time for this spin. Our culture is addicted to growth at the expense of anything lasting.

A more efficient this or that is going to make fk all difference when we should have put the brakes on decades ago but are going full tilt instead :/

TechRadar · What is an NPU: the new AI chips explainedWhat is an NPU? Possibly the biggest advance in computing in a generation
#climatediary#decroissance
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Jonathan Schofield

@WalterMenteth Ed Miliband is earnest but also completely off-base because, sadly, that’s where the ‘possible’ still is mastodon.social/@urlyman/11272

Other #decroissance paths remain available, but not with Labour mas.to/@jbiserkov/112724695636

MastodonJonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)Martin Wolf in the FT, summarised: 1. Markets have failed and are failing. 2. Degrowth is “politically impossible”. 3. The only option is to roll out renewables faster. 4. Oh, wait a minute, see point 1. https://mastodon.energy/@CarbonBubble/112721364435101767 https://archive.is/2024.07.03-074554/https://www.ft.com/content/b2b6fb7a-9477-4485-a9e3-435b5e9c987e Me: lots of things have been “politically impossible”, until they weren’t #ClimateDiary
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Chris 🤩 Reinbothe

Give yourself a treat and listen to @jasonhickel talking to @parismarx about #degrowth #decroissance #ecosocialism #climatecrisis #climatejustice in the latest episode of #TechWontSaveUs overcast.fm/+ZpQCFD9kg

overcast.fmHow Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel — Tech Won't Save UsParis Marx is joined by Jason Hickel to discuss how technology would change in a degrowth society and why it doesn’t make sense to organize society around profit and infinite expansion. Jason Hickel is the author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. He’s also a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.Tech…
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Artanux - Simon Lefort

Quand je parle d'écologie ou de décroissance, les gens me répondent souvent: "Tu veux retourner au Moyen-Âge?!"

Non. Vraiment pas. Le monde moderne nous a aussi apporté énormément de bonnes choses comme une baisse drastique de la mortalité infantile:

lesoir.be/595863/article/2024-

C'est pour continuer à faire baisser la mortalité infantile qu'il faut -entre autres- réfléchir au futur de l'humanité.

Le Soir · Le recul de la mortalité infantile, l’une des plus belles réussites de l’humanitéBy Par Axel Bojanowski («Die Welt»)
#décroissance#écologie#mortalitéInfantile
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Jonathan Schofield

Nick Robinson on Radio 4 Today asking a PR guru and a former head of the Monetary Policy Committee about the prospects for growth.

All of them avoiding the materiality of the energetics mastodon.social/@urlyman/11208

Oh well, keep on keeping on planning to fail so we can just shrug for the rest of our lives

MastodonJonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image …One of the intersections Nate drew my attention to is that the greatest rates of economic growth for ‘advanced’ (most energy ravenous) economies in the 20th Century coincided more or less with the fastest rate of growth in oil extraction (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Historical-world-oil-production-and-price-from-1950-to-2015-and-projections-for-World-oil_fig1_324058033) Oil CAGR: 1950-72 7.8% 1973-85 0.1% 1986-2002 1.3% 2003-14 1.4% I knew about each, and I knew that the *rate* of economic growth has been in decline but I’d never put the two phenomena together. #climateDiary
#decroissance
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Jonathan Schofield

One of the themes of Steven Zaillian’s Ripley is steps. Lots of steps. Atrani’s postmaster repeatedly directs Tom Ripley to go “Su, su, su” – up, up, up.

I wanted to find a picture of Andrew Scott climbing the steps towards the light in the narrow passageways of Atrani but maybe this one is more apt.

- - -

When EV purchasing goes up, up, up, and renewables build-out goes up, up, up, but emissions don’t go down, down, down, what then?

What are our next steps after the flood?

Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, alone, in shadow, climbs a barely lit stone staircase with wrought iron ballustrade. His shadow is cast ahead of him onto the wall to his left.
#decroissance
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Jonathan Schofield

…I commuted, and secured a big pay increase in return for more responsibility. But…

I wasn’t cut out for the role, so after several more years I left and chose… a form of degrowth.

My earnings more than halved. They’ve stayed there. And then related choices came along.

I didn’t so much choose to stop flying as not flying chose me. I couldn’t afford it.

So, confirmation bias FTW!
(Yes, I see the obvious flaw in that notion 😆)

#decroissance
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Jonathan Schofield

I’ve been reflecting on why I find #decroissance appealing – apart from the biophysical imperatives of it – and I think a large part of the answer is confirmation bias.

Around the turn of the millennium London career life became a net negative. With two infant children, we were searching for a step up the housing ladder and the only option was to mortgage ourselves up to the hilt to buy just one more room, or move out.

We moved out but that wasn’t enough…

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Jonathan Schofield

The most intriguing observation from Tim is that there is always more inequality in higher energy systems.

He’s a physicist who studies clouds (among other things). He noted that the lowest energy cloud formation is fog, which has highly similar sized droplets. At the other end of the scale, cumulonimbus have everything from microscopic droplets to giant hailstones.

So we might conclude that the path to less inequality is to have a lower energy footprint

#climateDiary #decroissance

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Jonathan Schofield

…a corollary to this is that just like every other creature, we exploit gradients and are subject to the same power laws.

We’ve just been more ingenious at harnessing combustion and doing everything at scale.

The more energy we find a way to harness, the bigger our economy grows. This makes it likely that renewables will be *additive*. Which has been the pattern of our energy history

#climateDiary #decroissance

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Jonathan Schofield

My attempt at Tim Garrett’s model☝️ in bullet point form:

- everything in life is pushing energy along networks
- all networks are built of matter
- having built a network, there is a corresponding energy demand to keep that network functional
- but networks are always in the process of decay so they always need maintenance and renewal
- too little and it decays, too much and there is a window for growth and for power laws to do their thing
- and here we are

#climateDiary #decroissance

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