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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 15h

You can’t separate aggregate wealth from its distributional and material consequences under capitalism. I’ll ask my librarian to order it and put it in the reading list for my first year ecological economics course. I’ll let you know what they think. Good luck with the book.

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 15h

This is not X, so I won't engage in ad hominem. I do respectful debate. I am afraid there is great weight of academic and empirical literature which would disagree with you on that. Anyway, you certainly haven't sold your book to me! I was hoping for something

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Global Income Inequality - Global Inequality

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 20h

Its neither simple, obvious or non-controversial! The biggest contributer to low availability and accessibility of goods and services globally, and its pathalogcal outcomes, is the capitalist growth economy. The top 10% of the world’s population owns around 70–80% of total global wealth.

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 21h

Very interested in good faith critiques. I have read none so far.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 1d

“EPA said the biggest threats to overall health of the country’s natural water bodies include animal waste, fertilisers & pesticides running off farmland and forestry”.

Politically backed ongoing wreckage of our natural environment for profit continues unabated.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 1d

That didn’t answer my question! I wrote my own PhD on Degrowth. The purpose of the concept is to try to stop make everyone poorer. If you want a concept that ‘promises the moon’, see ecomodernism. I guess I won’t be buying the book.

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 1d

Is this one of those books where the author hasn’t read a word of Degrowth literature but instead engages in preconceived straw men arguments? Reading the blurb, it certainly seems to be that. Degrowth is the opposite of “making everyone poorer”

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate the effort to try and create a “positive” framing but unfortunately it will just end up easily co-opted like all the others e.g ‘sustainable development’, ‘circular economy’ etc. You need words which threaten the hegemony to produce positive change.

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 3d

“Decouple” - is that a negative word? The reason you perceive“degrow” as negative is because society has been universally conditioned into believing endless growth is good. We need a word to jolt us out of our stupor. Which points directly at the problem. Otherwise there can be no hope.

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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 5d

Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin
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Autonomy within limits: Post-growth and social imaginaries of work, education and democracy - Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Mine Islar, Riya Raphael, 2025

Autonomy is central to thinking about democracy and human needs, but the question of how autonomy relates to growth is ambivalent. Is growth necessary to achiev...

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 4d

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[OVERSHOOT] Part 1: Uncharted Territory

Podcast Episode · Macrodose · 06/10/2025 · Bonus · 35m

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 5d

Thats the whole point! Its purpose is a 'Mot Obus' - a missile world. Its supposed to make you feel uncomfortable! If it didn't, it would lose all utility. The fact people recoil when they hear it speaks to how hegenomic 'growth' is in our world bsky.app/profile/degr...

Degrowth Collective @degrowth.bsky.social · 8d

Should we use vague ideas about challenging capitalism?!
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Should we use vague ideas about challenging capitalism?!

YouTube video by Vlad Bunea

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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 7d

New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth'

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Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth

When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 8d

We need a word that directly calls out the problem and cannot be co-opted by capitalist pro-growth discourse. That is the whole purpose of the word. And why it is so controversial. Which is exactly the point. timotheeparrique.com/fear-and-loa...

Fear and Loathing in “Degrowth” – Timothée Parrique

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Timothée Parrique @timparrique.bsky.social · 8d

"La PIB Mania nous mène à l'extinction." Une analyse en français sur @bonpote.com du dernier article de Fanning et Raworth (2025) sur le donut. bonpote.com/la-pib-mania...

La PIB Mania nous mène à l'extinction : la nouvelle étude du Donut est sans équivoque

C’est sans doute l’une des études les plus importantes de l’année. La première tentative de quantification du donut de Kate Raworth et

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Fred Logue @fplogue.bsky.social · 11d

The radio silence from the @lawsocietyireland.bsky.social is concerning though

Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 11d

About time somebody said this

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‘Better quality’ planning decisions would mean fewer judicial reviews - Bar council chair

Seán Guerin SC says decision-making failure over planning for Dublin drainage project ‘not the fault of judicial review’

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SustainableCZ @sustainablecz.bsky.social · 15d

What do just futures look like? 🌱 At the #ISEE2025 Degrowth Conference in Oslo, Elif Tuğba Şimşek shared how “the future” is framed in transformation studies, drawing on work from a #COSTransformERS STSM.

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ISEE-Degrowth 2025: Building socially just postgrowth futures – linking theory and action

In June 2025, the ISEE-Degrowth Conference took place in Oslo under the theme “Building socially just postgrowth futures – linking theory and action.” This unique event combined the 18th Internatio…

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 14d

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value.

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Scientists announce that 7 of 9 key 'planetary boundaries' have been crossed

A team of global scientists issued a new report on Wednesday, noting that seven out of nine of key "planetary boundaries" have been crossed. Carbon dioxide emissions have increased ocean acidification...

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Philip Pogson @philiprp.bsky.social · 15d

Is it true that “today’s (university) business schools were designed for a world that no longer exists”. Is there a role for teaching ‘no growth’ or ‘de-growth’ economic scenarios?

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Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?

The capitalist model of endless economic growth is pushing the limits of our planet. How should future leaders prepare?

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 18d

All very convenient

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Planning Theory & Practice @planningtheory.bsky.social · 18d

#Post-Growth Planning. How can planning efforts disrupt the growth system and initiate a just eco-social transition? New article from Romero-Martinez, Romero-Padilla, and del Castillo-Sanchez. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reflections on Post-Growth Planning: Practices of ‘Undoing’ (De-Urbanisation and Deconstruction) and Methodology for Eco-Social Transition

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2025)

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 18d

“The average billionaire emits about 1million times more greenhouse gases than the average person.

What are we getting out of this deal?

Economic growth in the short-term. A dying planet in the long-term. Not a good deal.”

- @mattorsagh.bsky.social
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/do-we-need...

Do We Need Billionaires?

Nope.

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 18d

@leilanifarha.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/renegade...

The Supply Fallacy

Deception, distraction and distortion by design

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Dr. Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social · 19d

Degrowth is not about reducing economic growth it’s about creating societies where growth is unnecessary