We’ll never survive the crisis of the Anthropocene by stimulating the economy.
Lately I’ve been thankful our public library sits near the high school. I drop our kids off for sports, then go find a quiet spot somewhere in the library and read. Saves gas on a return trip to the house and also creates nice brackets around a concrete block of time.
Last night I had my nose deep in Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto.
Saitō, a creative scholar of Marx, is proposing degrowth communism as truly the only realistic way forward if we wish to counter-act the ecological crisis climate change presents.
Essentially he argues recycling and other personal measures are the “opiate” of the people, meaningless acts that cause more harm than good. Greenwashing.
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