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   8/ ✊ THIS IS A SYSTEM THAT LEAVES THE MAJORITY WITHOUT SATISFACTION OF BASIC NEEDS.

   We need a restructuring of the system away from profit to the needs of all people

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     7/ ⚠️ For degrowth, the problem is not the behaviour of individual “consumers” but rather the structure and logic of the underlying economic system: capitalism.

     j@mastodon repeated this.
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     6/ ➡️ Colonialism is a precondition, as well as a consequence of the need for energy of the capitalist system. The North (Minority World) appropriates this energy and the South (Majority World) pays the highest price.

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     5/ ❗Dispossession, enslavement and exploitation are legitimized by shunting nonhuman beings, Black and Indigenous people, and most women as not-quite-fully-human.

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     4/ Such a system breeds inequalities and ecological breakdown.

     Claim of capitalistic growth and material ‘progress’: improving everyday life for millions.

     Reality: the majority is barely keeping their heads above water.
     (We will refer you to a previous post on GDP...)

     In most societies, there are strong inequalities, colonial legacies,
     racism, to this day.

     #decolonise #fuckGDP

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     3/ Of course, there’s nothing naturally cheap about labour & nature. On the contrary, they’re actively cheapened.

     European capitalists came up with this dualism that casts humans as subjects with mind and agency, & nature as an object to be exploited and controlled for human ends.

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     2/ Capitalism needs not only profit, but exponentially growing profit.

     So...dig dig dig!

     Extraction and accumulation of natural resources is the only way. It must take more from life than it gives back.

     Capitalism requires energy to turn natural resources into waste: Energy = Resources = Labour

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     1/ Degrowth ~Tuesday~ /Thursday Tea Break: #Extractivism Chapter 2 🌱

     💥 The economic growth system is sustained only by theft.

     #BeyondGrowth #DegrowthTuesdayTeaBreak #DegrowthNow

     Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: repeated this.