"AI is being seen as an end in itself, a competition between a few powerful companies, without consideration of how its benefits can serve targets we as society defined." DanO'Neill at the opening of the 10th International Degrowth Conference, referring to the means-ends framework of Herman Daly.
"The basic idea is that the economy is part of the environment; but that has fundamental implications. Economic transactions are also environmental transactions." Dan O'Neill from the European Society of Ecological Economics kicks off the 10th International #Degrowth#Pontevedra.
⚠️Our societies depend on a healthy ecosystem. "The [Rhône] river supplies 2.5M people with tap water, moves goods, cools nuclear reactors, produces a quarter of France’s hydroelectricity and sustains stretches of farmland roughly the size of Belgium." www.politico.eu/article/when...
Water-rich Switzerland controls Western Europe’s taps — and wants it to stay that way. Its drought-ridden neighbors are getting nervous.
"Unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic." Outgoing UN special rapporteur David Boyd speaks clarity in his interview with The Guardian. Distrust the lies of the industry, he says, and start caring: www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
The inconvenient truth is that the fixation on economic #growth#EUOvershootDay#BeyondGrowthATbeyondgrowth.at
🛑 Resource plunder alert! The EU's outsized consumption and production urgently requires a 🆕 law to manage resources sustainably, promote social justice, boost the EU’s resilience & reduce inequalities. 100+ org’s launch future-proof proposal bit.ly/sustainable-...#wcef2024@zakia.bsky.social
Open Letter To: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European CommissionMaroš Šefčovič, European Commissioner for Interinstitutional Relations and ForesightVirginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissio...