updates here see also degrowth updates 12-2023 theguardian.com 4-12-2023 I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’– Amid the cost of living crisis and threats to the climate, many are pledging to consume less and spend sustainably – by Jem Bartholomew academia.edu gg/pdf 2016-2023 “A wealth of possibilities: Alternatives to … Continue reading DEGROWTH – ALT-, non GDP- post-growth – updates
see also > nature.com 13-3-2024 Regional impacts of warming on biodiversity and biomass in high latitude stream ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere – by Michelle C. Jackson, Nikolai Friberg, Luis Moliner Cachazo, David R. Clark, Petra Thea Mutinova, Eoin J. O’Gorman, Rebecca L. Kordas, Bruno Gallo, Doris E. Pichler, Yulia Bespalaya, Olga V. Aksenova, Alexander Milner, … Continue reading ECO CRISIS – biodiversity – conservation – extinction
Mariana Mazzucato updates – “Mission Economy”, “The Big Con” – articles, interviews, reviews , videos – auch auf deutsch
source: https://ukuncensored.com/the-end-game-part-i/ https://ukuncensored.com/the-end-game-part-ii/ https://ukuncensored.com/the-end-game-part-iii/ ukuncensored.com 11-2020 The End Game: Part 1,2,3 – by Kit Winder Last week, I wrote that the US election was almost irrelevant to investors in the grand scheme of things. Today, and this week, I would like to try and justify that claim. Markets have been all over the place, sinking … Continue reading The End Game – Kit Winder 2020 – markets, valuations
source: John Feffer 2021 resilience.org , originally published 20-12-2021 by Foreign Policy In Focus GaiaMoney is revisiting DeGrowth for Xmas with John Feffer’s question: “Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it’s too late?” “Over the last three decades, a growing number of scientists and ecologists have argued … Continue reading The “Selling” of DeGrowth – or how to soft sell the hardest sale ever – by John Feffer
degrowth updates here Décroissance, or degrowth, is a story of hope amidst adversity. Just like Xmas. Born of the adversities of a poisoned and plundered planet, degrowthers say “No! No More! Let’s get out of the Old National Market Hall of Sickly Scarcity and into the New Global Banquet Hall of Happy Abundance… Yes, contrary … Continue reading DeGrowth or Décroissance anyone? (not just for Xmas)
#agency- attention, consciousness, IDentity #commons #democracy MONEY #finance- Greensill, repo #monetary/fiscal #inflation #markets – ALTcurrencies- #CBDC, #crypto -bitcoin #internet- big tech, web, metaverse -Y.Veroufakis, ECONOMICS– #hetero research #ortho mainstream #housing #INEQUALITY #population #work– trading, gig #trade #science ECO-logical crises- #climate, #biodiversity #sustainability #ENERGY- nuclear, fossil, greenwashing, NATURAL RESOURCES, #fossils #food, farming, agriculture #”green”GDP-GROWTH, decoupling, techno fix, Bill Gates #green techno, … Continue reading Updates – hetero highlights & NeueWirtschaft – annotated, by topic, 2021-2022
energy – selected/featured – see also alt+green techno goodreads.com 2020 The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin researchgate 2017 The Degrowth Imperative: Reducing Energy and Resource Consumption as an Essential Component in Achieving Carbon Budget Targets – by John Wiseman, Samuel Alexander goodreads.com 2017 Energy and Civilization: A History … Continue reading ENERGY
According to Hesiod’s Theogony, the original nuclear family was created when Uranus mated with Gaia, the Greek earth goddess, and produced numerous children. Unfortunately, he hated his children, and they hated him. One of them, Cronus, went so far as to castrate Uranus and throw the severed genitals into the sea. This left a white … Continue reading About
theguardian.com 29-3-2023 UK government and royals called on to investigate slavery links after Guardian apology .theguardian.com 3-2023 special series: Cotton Capital – How slavery changed the Guardian, Britain and the world sapiens.org 24-1-2023 Centering Black Lives in the Study of Human Remains – A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology reckons with bioarchaeology’s … Continue reading slave trade, colonisation, enslavement, racism, slavery,
see also updated 2-2024 studyfinds.org 14-1-2024 Predictable Evolution? Groundbreaking Study Upends Long-Held View In a paradigm-shifting discovery, researchers from the United Kingdom have found that evolution may not be as unpredictable as once believed. The study suggests that the future path of evolution could be influenced by a species’ genetic history, challenging the long-held view … Continue reading history – long, anthropology, archaeology, ecological, global, evolution
see also/merge>. SCIENCE natural, physics, quantum – philosophy of canadatoday 1-2023 Why more and more physicists consider space and time to be “illusions”. by Mason Regan …”…Entanglement is much more than just another weird quantum phenomenon. It is the working principle why quantum mechanics merges the world into one and why we experience this basic … Continue reading SCIENCE – physics
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see also Science mathematics history – K Kitagawa T Revell – book review FT 16-12-2023 >math, philosophy bigthink.com 19-12-2023 Turing and Wittgenstein: An entanglement of math and philosophy – In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to … Continue reading SCIENCE cosmology, physics, life, maths, quantum – philosophy of
BigTech FAANGS Palantir investopedia In finance, the acronym “FANG” refers to the stocks of four prominent American technology companies: Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), and Alphabet (GOOG). FANG stocks are famous for the impressive growth they have shown in recent years, with each member more than doubling over the past five years. In 2017, … Continue reading Big Tech FAANGS – Chris Moure, Vincent Ventures
see also > history real existing capitalism > NEO LIBERALISM – GLOBALISATION – HISTORY – POLITICS – US – BUSINESS – ECONOMICS – WASHINGTON CONSENSUS – Mark-Fisher – John N.Gray neo-liberalism – featured/selected – updates here academia.edu/pdf 2021 On “progressive neoliberalism” from a discursive perspective: “Progress” as an empty signifier – by Olga Baysha acdemia.edu … Continue reading real existing capitalism – neo liberalism, globalisation
updates below see also> featured> youtube 1978 Bernard Williams and AJ Ayer on Wittgenstein, Truth, and Religion updates 3-2024 iai.tv/articles 8-3-2024 Quantum physics and the end of naturalism – The need for transcendent reality – by Bruce L. Gordon Naturalism, the idea that there are no gods, spirits, or transcendent meanings, is the leading theory … Continue reading philosophy of SCIENCE – epistemology – knowledge
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GROWTH! What Growth? – growth portal page this page: intro/featured/selected – types of growth – updated articles below – more updates on gg/alt- de- post- growth page – gg growth posts and pages: what (de)growth? –intro/featured/selected Alf Hornborg writes in his article “How to turn an ocean liner”: “Although soon reduced to a heterodox and marginalized position, the … Continue reading GROWTH! What Growth?
Ten years after the 2008 crisis I came across an old Guardian article : Queen finally finds out why no one saw the financial crisis coming Her Majesty gets the answer to her question – four years after she asked it – on a tour of the Bank of England One doesn’t normally keep the … Continue reading The Queen, Seventeen, Halloween…
