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Fw: Fw: Info
by Natalie Golovin 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Mark: You and your compatriots on P2P view the world from revisionism. Go ahead and keep looking through your microscope-provided by your "teachers." Or take the time and read some very old documented evidence available at a library near you= but you may need to stay there awhile on microfiche. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Janssen Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:39 PM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fw: Info On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: > The European Tribes treated the Natives no worse than they treated each > other. Whoa. You should really stop talking. You have NO idea what you're talking about. How about forced acculturation, not allowing them to speak their own language (which hold the record of their own history), confined them under threat of violent force into reservations, among other things. But, really, that's probably not even the worst of it -- the worst of it is that for reasons they couldn't ever understand is why you were doing all of these cruel things when they were willing to share it it all with you. Why, when they handed out their hand to be friends, you chopped it off. Remember, they're the ones who gave us Thanksgiving which is still "celebrated" in this nation today. Read the reports made of making first contact with the Native peoples here. You really should read up before propagating the attitudes of conquest. Sorry.... marcos _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Fwd: Facebook Wants To Fight Propaganda – With Propaganda
by Michel Bauwens 29 Sep '18

29 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: piqd - your piqs of the day <dailydigest(a)piqd.com> Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:30 AM Subject: Facebook Wants To Fight Propaganda – With Propaganda To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiQ2lWLTl…> News from your channels Read articles on piqd: Emran Feroz <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiY2t0eEo…> | Technology and society <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiSWphM3N…> Facebook Wants To Fight Propaganda – With Propaganda <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/facebook-wants-to-fight-p…> Technology and society <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiSWphM3N…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiY2t0eEo…> piqer: Emran Feroz 5 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/facebook-wants-to-fight-p…> Facebook Wants To Fight Propaganda – With Propaganda <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/facebook-wants-to-fight-p…> The times we are living in are truly Orwellian, considering Facebook's recent steps against fake news. It is well-known that since the last presidential elections in the United States, Facebook is facing more and more pressure to prevent the spread of misinformation. However, last week Facebook said it would team up with two US non-profits to slow the global spread of fake news that could influence elections. It also acknowledged that fake news sites were still read by millions. But the two organizations are the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, and, of course, both of them have ties with the US government and the country's leading parties. For that reason, it should be obvious that they have their very own interests. They do not want to combat fake news "because it's a good thing". Often, the US government itself is spreading misinformation. I witnessed this myself countless times after covering US war crimes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries. So I guess the only bad guys will be the Russians, Iranians and others while the US government itself will be sold as the presenter of the one and only truth. <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Facebook%20Wants%20To%20Fight%20Propa…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.facebook.com?p=eyJzIjoiZUN…> <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/facebook-wants-to-fight-p…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoicDBBR3R…> Source: Joseph Menn | reuters.com on 09/20/2018 | Language: EN Facebook expands fake election news fight, but falsehoods still... Read article <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoicDBBR3R…> Your newsletter Not enough information in your newsletter? Don't receive it often enough? Not enough to read? change now <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiYlpHTnd…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/twitter.com?p=eyJzIjoibkFXU19i…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.facebook.com?p=eyJzIjoiU2x…> piqd GmbH | Widenmayerstr. 38 | 80538 Munich Tel.: +49 (0) 8152 99 86 564 | Fax:+49 (0) 8152 9986571 | Email: contact(a)piqd.com Managing director: Marcus von Jordan | Seat and court of jurisdiction: Munich HRB 217337 Tax number: 143/134/81256 | VAT numer: DE 300221320 Imprint <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiRFBpNTV…> | Privacy <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiQkJ1Tjl…> | Unsubscibe <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiNnl0dFZ…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: PGA Post: The Rules #2 2018
by Michel Bauwens 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Post Growth Alliance <alliance(a)postgrowth.org> Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:10 PM Subject: PGA Post: The Rules #2 2018 To: Michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Natural resource caps, ineffective or the answer? PGA Member Content Update: From Jason Hickel and The Rules, a look at curbing our natural resource use and green growth. <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> PGA Members submit your request for content creation here <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> . Dear Michel, Thanks for being so awesome! As a supporter of this Alliance, you're helping shine a light on work that's truly making a difference. To help The Rules <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> *:* Share This Twitter Post <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> Share This Facebook Post <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> Alternatively, use any of the text below and the image above to craft your own post. Remember: to tag people/groups, put the '@' symbol before their name. *Twitter Copy:* New evidence suggests green growth isn't even possible: http://bit.ly/greenforeignpolicy h/t: @jasonhickel @TheRulesOrg @postgrowth #postgrowth #degrowth *Facebook Copy: * Natural resource caps, ineffective or the answer we have been looking for? In his new article Jason Hickel asks us to rethink our current GDP dependency as the main metric for national economic success. Rather, he suggests exploring alternatives such as a genuine progress indicator (GPI). Using GPI would help us maximize socially good outcomes while minimizing ecologically bad ones. What do you think?: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/12/why-growth-cant-be-green/ The significance of this article being published in Foreign Policy Magazine should not be overlooked, demonstrating that these ideas are slowly but surely entering mainstream discussions. Hickel refers to recent research that confirms what many of us have long felt: you can't look to the greening of economic growth as a way out of our limits to growth dilemma. Hickel emphasizes that ending growth doesn’t mean shutting down economic activity - it simply means that next year we can’t produce and consume more than we are doing this year. The boundary level of usable natural resources per year of 50 billion metric tons was breached in 2000. Once this was reached, pursuing any degree of economic growth drives resource use into the space beyond limits. #PostGrowthAlliance submission by: @therules.org h/t: @foreign.policy.magazine This email was sent to michel(a)p2pfoundation.net *why did I get this?* <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5a…> unsubscribe from this list <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> update subscription preferences <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f…> Post Growth Institute · 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard · Ashland, OR 97520 · USA [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Nomadland ( Podcast )
by Michel Bauwens 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:05 AM Subject: Nomadland ( Podcast ) To: <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com> Starting at 4 minutes https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=81442&archive=166027&starttime= September 26, 2018: Jessica Bruder Jessica Bruder is a journalist who reports on subcultures and economic justice. In her recent book *Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century <https://www.jessicabruder.com/nomadlandbook/>*, she spent months living in a camper van affectionately named “Van Halen”, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in our precarious economy. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving—from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border. Listen to this show: MP3 - 128K <http://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=81442&archive=166028> | Pop‑up player! <http://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=81442&archive=166027> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Eric Hunting <erichunting(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 02:06 Subject: Nomadland To: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com>, <op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com > Heard this interview on WFMU with the writer of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Focuses on how the nomadic lifestyle in the US has expanded in the post 2008 recession US with the inclusion of masses of retirees now forced to live on the road and chase marginal jobs for the likes of Amazon and the Sugar industry. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81442 Eric Hunting erichunting(a)gmail.com -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Ecolibertarianism ?
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

http://earthfreedom.net/ecolibertarianism EcoLibertarianism combines the Georgist/geoclassical economic insights of geolibertarianism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism> with the broader ecological and decentralist concerns of green libertarianism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_libertarianism>. EcoLibertarianism primarily differs from classical (or "royal <http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html>") libertarianism in how property relates to the commons.

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Fwd: 'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here
by Michel Bauwens 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ryan Fortune <ryan.fortune2012(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:06 PM Subject: 'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> By the end of this century, sea level rises alone could displace 13m people... <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *By the end of this century, sea level rises alone could displace 13m people. Many states will have to grapple with hordes of residents seeking dry ground. But, as one expert says, ‘No state is unaffected by this’* *by Oliver Milman <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> Guardian UK 24 September 2018* After her house flooded for the third year in a row, Elizabeth Boineau was ready to flee. She packed her possessions into dozens of boxes, tried not to think of the mold and mildew-covered furniture and retreated to a second-floor condo that should be beyond the reach of pounding rains and swelling seas. Boineau is leaving behind a handsome, early 20th-century house in Charleston, South Carolina, the shutters painted in the city’s eponymous shade <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> of deep green. Last year, after Hurricane Irma introduced 8in of water into a home Boineau was still patching up from the last flood, local authorities agreed this historic slice of Charleston could be torn down. “I was sloshing through the water with my puppy dog, debris was everywhere,” she said. “I feel completely sunken. It would cost me around $500,000 to raise the house, demolish the first floor. I’m going to rent a place instead, on higher ground.” Millions of Americans will confront similarly hard choices as climate change conjures up brutal storms, flooding rains, receding coastlines and punishing heat. Many are already opting to shift to less perilous areas of the same city, or to havens in other states. Whole towns from Alaska to Louisiana are looking to relocate, in their entirety, to safer ground. *The era of climate migration is, virtually unheralded, already upon America. * The population shift gathering pace is so sprawling that it may rival anything in US history. “Including all climate impacts it isn’t too far-fetched to imagine something twice as large as the Dustbowl,” said Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation expert at Harvard University, referencing the 1930s upheaval in which 2.5 million people moved from the dusty, drought-ridden plains to California. This enormous migration will probably take place over a longer period than the Dustbowl but its implications are both profound and opaque. It will plunge the US into an utterly alien reality. “It is very difficult to model human behaviour under such extreme and historically unprecedented circumstances,” Keenan admits. The closest analogue could be the Great Migration <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> – a period spanning a large chunk of the 20th century when about 6 million black people departed the Jim Crow south for cities in the north, midwest and west. By the end of this century, sea level rise alone could displace 13 million people, according to one study <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, including 6 million in Florida. States including Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey will also have to grapple with hordes of residents seeking dry ground. “There’s not a state unaffected by this,” said demographer Mat Hauer, lead author of the research, which is predicated on a severe 6ft sea level increase. There are established migration preferences for some places – south Florida to Georgia, New York to Colorado – but in many cases people would uproot to the closest inland city, if they have the means. “The Great Migration was out of the south into the industrialized north, whereas this is from every coastal place in the US to every other place in the US,” said Hauer. “Not everyone can afford to move, so we could end up with trapped populations that would be in a downward spiral. I have a hard time imagining what that future would be like.” Within just a few decades, hundreds of thousands of homes on US coasts will be chronically flooded <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>. By the end of the century, 6ft of sea level rise would redraw the coastline with familiar parts – such as southern Florida, chunks of North Carolina and Virginia, much of Boston, all but a sliver of New Orleans – missing. Warming temperatures will fuel monstrous hurricanes <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> – like the devastating triumvirate of Irma, Maria and Harvey in 2017, followed by Florence this year – that will scatter survivors in jarring, uncertain ways. The projections are starting to materialize in parts of the US, forming the contours of the climate migration to come. “I don’t see the slightest evidence that anyone is seriously thinking about what to do with the future climate refugee stream,” said Orrin Pilkey, professor emeritus of coastal geology at Duke University. “It boggles the mind to see crowds of climate refugees arriving in town and looking for work and food.” Pilkey’s new book – Sea Level Rise Along Americas Shores: The Slow Tsunami – envisions apocalyptic scenes where millions of people, largely from south Florida, will become “a stream of refugees moving to higher ground”. “They will not be the bedraggled families carrying their few possessions on their backs as we have seen in countless photos of people fleeing wars and ethnic cleansing, most recently in Myanmar and Syria,” Pilkey states in his book. “Instead, they will be well-off Americans driving to a new life in their cars, with moving trucks behind, carrying a lifetime of memories and possessions.” Dejected with frigid New York winters, Chase Twichell and her husband purchased a four-bedroom apartment in Miami Beach in 2011, with the plan of spending at least a decade basking in the sunshine. At first, keeping a pair of flip-flops on hand to deal with the flooded streets seemed an acceptable quirk, until the magnitude of the encroaching seas became apparent when the city spent $400m to elevate streets <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> near Twichell’s abode. Twichell began to notice water pumps were spewing plastic bags, condoms and chip packets into the bay. Friends’ balconies started getting submerged. Twichell, a poet, found apocalyptic themes creeping into her work. Last year, she sold the apartment to a French businessman and moved back to upstate New York. “It was like end of the world stuff,” she said. “It was crazy for us to have such a big investment in such a dangerous situation.” Her neighbours initially scolded her but now several are also selling up, fretting that the real estate and insurance markets for properties like theirs will seize up. “It was horrible but fascinating to see it,” Twichell said. “It’s like we got to see the future and it wasn’t pretty. It’s like a movie where there’s a terrible volcano that is destroying everything, only it’s much slower than that.” A sense of fatalism is also starting to grip some local officials. Philip Stoddard, mayor of South Miami, has seen a colleague, spooked by sea level rise, move to California and some neighbours sell their houses before an expected slump in prices. Stoddard and his wife regularly discuss buying a fallback property, perhaps in Washington DC. “Most people will wait for the problem to be bad to take action, that’s what I worry about,” he said. “We can buy a lot of time, but in the end we lose. The sea level will go over the tops of our buildings.” Sanitation is an immediate preoccupation for Stoddard, given the large proportion of residents who aren’t served by sewage works. “If you’re using a septic tank and your toilet starts to overflow into your bathroom because of water inundation, that’s a basis-of-civilization problem,” he said. “A medieval city wasn’t a nice smelling place and they had a lot of diseases.” Those living near the coasts will face pressures of the gradual (sea level rise) as well as dramatic (storms) nature but people inland will also be harried to move by climate change. Farming techniques and technology have improved immeasurably since the Dustbowl but rising temperatures are still expected <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> to diminish yields for crops such as maize, soybeans and wheat, prompting the departure <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> of younger people from farming. By 2050, Texas county, the largest <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> wheat-producing county in Oklahoma, could spend an extra 40 days a year above 90F (32C) compared with now. A study published last year <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> found that the economies of the southern states, along with parts of the west, will suffer disproportionately as temperatures rise. In what researchers called potentially one of the largest transfers of wealth in US history, the poorest third of counties are expected to lose up to 20% of their income unless greenhouse gas emissions are severely curtailed. Wealth, and potentially people, are expected to shift north and west. Meanwhile, cities already struggling with heat will see wealthy residents head for cooler climes. Last year, 155 people died in Phoenix due to a particularly fierce summer. Increasing heat will start testing the durability of the populace, even those shielded by air conditioning. In the western states, wildfires are getting larger, razing homes in ever more spectacular ways and choking thousands of people with carcinogenic smoke <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> . Further to the south, at the border, there are suggestions <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> that people from Central America are being nudged towards the US because of drought and hurricanes in their homelands, part of a trend that will see as many as <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> 300 million climate refugees worldwide by 2050. “People will get very grumpy and upset with very hot temperatures,” said Amir Jina, an environmental economist at the University of Chicago who co-authored the research on economic losses. “Even if you have air conditioning, some areas start to look less habitable. By the middle of the century parts of the south-west and south-east won’t look attractive to live in. “That insidious climate migration is the one we should worry about. The big disasters such as hurricanes will be obvious. It’s the pressures we don’t know or understand that will reshape population in the 21st century.” Prodded to name refuges in the US, researchers will point to Washington and Oregon in the Pacific north-west, where temperatures will remain bearable and disasters unlikely to strike. Areas close to the Great Lakes and in New England are also expected to prove increasingly attractive to those looking to move. By 2065, southern states are expected <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> to lose 8% of their US population share, while the north-east will increase by 9%. A recent study forecast that the population in the western half of the US will increase by more than 10% <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> over the next 50 years due to climate migration, largely from the south and midwest. But these population shifts are uncertain and are bound by a tangle of other factors and caveats. People will still largely follow paths guided by nearby family or suitable jobs. Even those who do want to move may find favoured locations too expensive. Some will just grimly hang on. “With property rights as strong as they are in the US, some people may choose to go down with the ship,” said Harvard’s Keenan. “The question is whether they have the means and the options to do anything else.” “People can usually cope with being a little less comfortable, but if you see repeated storms or severe damage to crops, that will trigger change,” said Solomon Hsiang, who researches how climate change will affect society at the University of California. “There will be pressure to move a little north. It won’t be everyone, though, it won’t be like the great migration of wildebeest in Africa. Whole cities picking up and moving would be hugely expensive.” Smaller towns are giving relocation a go, however. In 2016, the community of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana was the first place to be given federal money <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> to replant itself. The population, situated on an island being eaten away by the sea, is looking to move to a former sugar cane farm 30 miles inland. “We are called climate refugees but I hate that term,” said Chantal Comardelle, who grew up in the Isle de Jean Charles community. “We will be the first ones to face this in the modern US but we won’t be the last. It’s important for us to get it right so other communities know that they can do it, too.” About a dozen coastal towns in Alaska are also looking to relocate, as diminishing sea ice exposes them to storms and rising temperatures thaw the very ground beneath them. One, Newtok, has identified a new site and has some federal funding <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> to begin uprooting itself. A buyout of damaged and at-risk homes has already occurred in New York City’s Staten Island in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, while certain flood-prone houses in Houston, pummeled by Hurricane Harvey last year, are also being purchased and razed. But the cost of doing this for all at-risk Americans would be eye-watering. Estimates range from $200,000 to $1m per person to undertake a relocation. If 13 million people do have to move, it seems fantastical to imagine $13tn, or even a significant fraction of this amount, being spent by governments to ease the way. “As a country we aren’t set up to deal with slow-moving disasters like this, so people around the country are on their own,” said Joel Clement, a former Department of the Interior official who worked on the relocation of Alaskan towns. “In the Arctic I’m concerned we’ve left it too late. Younger people have left because they know the places are doomed. These towns won’t be relocated within five years and I’m sure there will be a catastrophic storm up there. My hope is no lives will be lost.” Ultimately, the US will have to choose what it wants to defend and hope its ingenuity outstrips the environmental changes ranged against it. Not everyone will be able to shelter behind fortifications like the ‘big U <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>’ planned to defend lower Manhattan. Wrenching decisions will have to be made as to what and where will be sacrificed. “We won’t see whole areas abandoned but neighborhoods will get sparse and wild looking, the tax base will start to crumble,” said Stoddard, mayor of South Miami. “We don’t have the laws to deal with that sort of piecemeal retreat. It’s magical thinking to think someone else will buy out your property. “We need a plan as to what will be defended because at the moment the approach is that some kid in a garage will come with a solution. There isn’t going to be a mop and bucket big enough for this problem.” Original Article Link <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *Straight Talk* *Let’s call it: 30 years of above average temperatures means the climate has changed* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *Disaster Relief Call* *Drought puts over 10-million children in East Africa at risk of malnutrition and disease* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." * *- Anonymous* *Copyright © 2018 Rainbow Warriors International, All rights reserved.* Because we have borrowed this earth from our children... *Our mailing address is:* Rainbow Warriors International 151 Lower Main Road Observatory Cape Town, Western Cape 7925 South Africa Add us to your address book <//facebook.us8.list-manage.com/vcard?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=1691503663> Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Fwd: FROM RAJANI: INTERVIEW WITH MCPHERSON, RESENT TO CORRECT OMISSION
by Michel Bauwens 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: r kanth <involutegandhian(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:05 AM Subject: FROM RAJANI: INTERVIEW WITH MCPHERSON, RESENT TO CORRECT OMISSION To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> *IDEAS FOR OUR TIMES *(4) *On Imminent Human Extinction* *An Interview with Dr Guy McPherson* * This is the Fourth in a series of interviews exploring New Ideas that may, * * perhaps, serve as salves for our troubled times**.* [*Interviewed by Professor Rajani Kanth]* **the italicised emphases* *are the Interviewer’s* *1. **Please explain the environmental threat to human existence you perceive that has brought you much notoriety in recent times.* First, a little perspective. As with all other species in planetary history, except the few remaining, our species will go extinct. We are in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction. As with the five prior such events, most species on Earth will be driven to extinction in a relatively short period of time. The post-Permian mass extinction caused the extinction of more than 90% of the species on Earth about 252 million years ago. It was the worst of the prior mass extinction events. As with all five of the prior mass extinction events, Earth’s recovery required several million years to become vibrant, verdant, and characterized by an abundance of multicellular organisms. The current event is underlain by atmospheric carbon emissions about 10 times faster than those during the post-Permian event. It is no surprise that the ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction is proceeding an order of magnitude faster the post-Permian mass extinction. According to an August 2010 report from the United Nations, an estimated 150-200 species are driven to extinction every day. The actual figure exceeds 200 species daily during the last few years. In my case, the notoriety comes from my prediction that *Homo sapiens* will go extinct by 2026. Thus will we join the six other species within the genus *Homo* that have already gone extinct. *Specifically, I predict that there will be no humans on Earth by 2026* , based on projections of near-term planetary temperature rise and the demise of myriad species that support our own existence. *2. **How does that differ from more mainstream views of climate change extant today?* My view differs from the conventional, conservative view only with respect to *timing.* Every conservation biologist knows our species will join others in extinction when we lose habitat that supports our species. Yet, doubtless due to a combination of personal and professional reasons, few other scientists are willing to connect the dots leading to our imminent demise. Among the personal reasons are parenthood. Amongst the professional reasons are the loss of support for one’s privileged position. *3. **How, and when, and why, did you come to believe in this thesis?* My lifelong pursuit of evidence, combined with my knowledge of conservation biology, lead me to believe we face extinction in the near future. Conservation biology rests on the pillars of speciation (when and with what predecessors a species comes into existence), extinction (when the last member of a species dies), and habitat (the many factors necessary to support the populations of a species, including clean air, potable water, healthy food, and the means to maintain body temperature within a narrow range). As with other species, human animals depend upon* habitat* for our survival. More than 15 years ago, I reached the conclusion that the last member of*Homo sapiens* would die by 2030. I was co-editing a book about climate change at the time, and the evidence overwhelmed me. The conclusion was so disconcerting, I did not write or talk about the subject for a few years. Less than two years after reaching the conclusion about near-term human extinction, I discovered the “hail Mary” pass that I believed would ward off extinction for a few more generations: global peak oil, or net energy decline. Alas, passing the global peak for conventional oil in 2005 or 2006 did not cause the collapse necessary to turn off the heat engine of civilization. And our contemporary knowledge of global dimming, reported in the journal literature only since December 2011, indicates that collapse will actually accelerate human extinction relative to maintaining the omnicidal heat engine of civilization. More than a decade ago, I began speaking publicly about human extinction. For a few years, I adhered to the conventional notion that our species will go extinct in about 100 years. As evidence accumulated, I shifted the timeline back to 2050, 2035, 2030, and ultimately 2025 for human extinction. Our species will lose global habitat before 2025, thus marking the point of functional extinction. A few members of our species will persist beyond this loss of habitat for a few years, and the final members of*Homo sapiens* will die lonely, hungry, thirsty, and confused. *4. **What scientific evidence, either from your own research or from others, have you drawn this conclusion from (in layman’s terms if possible)?* I routinely describe *two paradoxes*, and the fact that we are in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction. First , the paradoxes. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in their vaunted fifth assessment that nearly all scenarios between now and 2100 require large-scale sequestration and storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This “geoengineering” must be accomplished at a tremendous scale if we are to survive. There is no known technology by which such an effort can be conducted, as pointed out by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and a European body of similar stature. In short, fantasy technology is required. The second paradox combines our knowledge of greenhouse gases and the aerosol masking effect (aka global dimming). As indicated by the Laws of Thermodynamics, civilization is a heat engine, even if civilization is underlain by “renewable” technology. Yet, turning off the heat engine of civilization heats the planet even faster as a result of the aerosol masking effect. Industrial activity pours particulates into the atmosphere, and these particulates – notably sulfates produced by burning coal – act as an “umbrella” to keep incoming sunlight from striking the surface of the planet. These particulates are constantly falling out of the atmosphere, and industrial activity is constantly adding them. While the greenhouse gases produced by industrialization are acting as “blankets” to hold in the heat, the particulates produced by industrialization are acting as “umbrellas” to keep the heat from striking Earth. *Damned if we do, and damned if we don’t,* civilization is simultaneously destroying most life on Earth while also serving as a shield to protect most life on Earth. The abrupt rise in temperature resulting from the near-term demise of industrial civilization will proceed too rapidly for most species to “keep up” with the rate of change. The plants that feed us cannot move. We cannot move them fast enough, and they depend upon unique environmental conditions (e.g., temperature and precipitation regime, extant soil, co-dependent species). As if two paradoxes are not enough, we are in the midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction on Earth. Destroying habitat for the species that keep us alive will cause our extinction, too. The ongoing loss of habitat for human animals will accelerate, thus leading to our near-term demise. I have provided supporting details within a long essay at Nature Bats Last ( https://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/) This long essay barely mentions the likelihood and consequences of an ice-free Arctic Ocean. As Finland’s President Niinistö has been pointing out for more than a year, an ice-free Arctic will lead quickly to loss of habitat for humans on Earth (e.g., http://finlandtoday.fi/president-niinisto-in-north-russia-if-we-lose-the-ar…) The near-term blue-ocean event was projected to occur in 2016 *+* 3 years by a paper in the 2012 edition of*Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences*( https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/suppl/10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105345 ). *5. **If so, how is it that most of your fellow-scientists have missed what is so ap* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: issue no. 85
by Michel Bauwens 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Real-World Economics Review <feedblitz(a)mail.feedblitz.com> Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:59 PM Subject: issue no. 85 To: michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> real-world economics review Please click here to support this open-access journal and the WEA - Subscribers: 25,952 subscribe RWER Blog ISSN 1755-9472 - A journal of the World Economics Association (WEA) 14,588 members, join Sister open ... *real-world economics review* *Please click here <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/~www.worldeconomicsassoci…> to support this open-access journal and the WEA * - Subscribers: 25,952 *subscribe <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/~www.feedblitz.com/f/f.Fb…> * *RWER Blog <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/rwer.wordpress.com/> * ISSN 1755-9472 - A journal of the World Economics Association <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/www.worldeconomicsassocia…>(WEA) 14,588 members, *join <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/www.worldeconomicsassocia…>* Sister open access journals*: Economic Thought <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/4833237/et.worldeconomicsass…>* and *World Social and Economic Review <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/4833237/wer.worldeconomicsas…>* *back issues <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/www.paecon.net/PAEReview/>* *18 September 2018* *issue no. 85download whole issue <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* Globalization checkmated? *Thomas Palley **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* *Post-crisis, next crisis* Capital and class: Inequality after the crash *David Ruccio *and *Jamie Morgan **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* Post-crisis perspective: sorting out money and credit and why they matter! *John M. Balder* *download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* With their back to the future, will past earnings trigger the next crisis? *Shimshon Bichler *and *Jonathan Nitzan **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* *Changing economics* Radical paradigm shifts *Asad Zaman **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* How to transform economics and systems of power? *Deniz Kellecioglu **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* Economics and normativity in four sections *Jamie Morgan * *download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* >From Pareto economics, to Pareto politics, to fascism *Jorge Buzaglo * *download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* Trump politics towards Mexico: *Alicia Puyana **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* *Note:* The structure of “crowding out” is reappearing *Leon Podkaminer **download pdf <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/www.paecon.net/PAE…>* Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc. 218 *please support this journal and the WEA <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/~www.worldeconomicsassoci…> * <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/4534930/0_/www.worldeconomicsassocia…> <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/973841/28787422/6247715_/feedblitz.com/f?Tr…> <http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?newsrss=332386> • Email to a friend <https://app.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Fwd2FriendEdit=973841;3285929;https://app…> • ------------------------------ *Safely Unsubscribe <https://app.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?EmailRemove=_28787422%7c973841%7cc15f1959…> • Archives <https://archive.feedblitz.com/973841> • Preferences <https://app.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?UpdatePrefs=973841&subscriberid=28787422&…> • Contact <https://app.feedblitz.com/f/?NewsContact=973841> • Subscribe <https://app.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Sub=973841> • Privacy <https://www.feedblitz.com/Privacy>* Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz <https://www.feedblitz.com>, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA <https://www.feedblitz.com/contact/> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Plastic Soup
by Michel Bauwens 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ryan Fortune <ryan.fortune2012(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:30 AM Subject: Plastic Soup To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> The problem is not plastic, it's consumerism, writes George Monbiot <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *Plastic Soup* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *The problem is not plastic, it's consumerism, writes George Monbiot* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> Do you believe in miracles? If so, please form an orderly queue. Plenty of people imagine we can carry on as we are, as long as we substitute one material for another. Last month, a request to Starbucks and Costa to replace their plastic coffee cups with cups made from corn starch was retweeted 60,000 times, before it was deleted <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> . Those who supported this call failed to ask themselves where the corn starch would come from, how much land is needed to grow it or how much food production it will displace. They overlooked the damage this cultivation would inflict: growing corn (maize) is notorious for causing soil erosion <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, and often requires heavy doses of pesticides and fertilisers. The problem is not just plastic. The problem is mass disposability. Or, to put it another way, the problem is pursuing, on the one planet known to harbour life, a four-planet lifestyle <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> . Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth’s living systems. Don’t get me wrong. Our greed for plastic is a major environmental blight, and the campaigns to limit its use are well-motivated and sometimes effective. But we cannot address our environmental crisis by swapping one over-used resource for another. When I challenged that call <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, some people asked me, “so what should we use instead?”. The right question is “how should we live?”. But systemic thinking is an endangered species. Part of the problem is the source of the plastic campaigns: David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II series <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>. The first six episodes had strong, coherent narratives. But the seventh episode <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, which sought to explain the threats facing the wonderful creatures the series revealed, darted from one issue to another. We were told we could “do something” about the destruction of ocean life. We were not told what. There was no explanation of why the problems are happening, what forces are responsible and how they can be engaged. Amid the general incoherence, one contributor stated “It comes down, I think, to us each taking responsibility for the personal choices in our everyday lives. That’s all any of us can be expected to do.” This perfectly represents the mistaken belief that a better form of consumerism will save the planet. The problems we face are structural: a political system captured by commercial interests and an economic system that seeks endless growth. Of course we should try to minimise our own impacts, but we cannot confront these forces merely by “taking responsibility” for what we consume. Unfortunately, these are issues that the BBC in general, and David Attenborough in particular, avoid. I admire Attenborough in many ways, but I am no fan of his environmentalism. For many years, it was almost undetectable. When he did at last speak out, he consistently avoided challenging power, either speaking in vague terms or focusing on problems for which powerful interests are not responsible. I believe this tendency may explain Blue Planet’s skirting of the obvious issues. The most obvious is the fishing industry, that turns the astonishing lifeforms the rest of the series depicted into seafood. Throughout the oceans <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, this industry, driven by our appetites and protected by governments, is causing cascading ecological collapse. Yet the only fishery the programme featured was among the 1% that are in recovery <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>. It was charming to see how Norwegian herring boats seek to avoid killing orcas, but we were given no idea of how unusual it is <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> . Even marine plastics is in large part a fishing issue. It turns out that 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that has come to symbolise our throwaway society, is composed of discarded nets <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, and much of the rest consists of other kinds of fishing gear. Abandoned fishing materials <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> tend to be far more dangerous to marine life <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> than other forms of waste. As for the bags and bottles contributing to the disaster, the great majority arise in poorer nations <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> , without good disposal systems <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> . But because this point was not made, we look to the wrong places for solutions. >From this misdirection arise a thousand perversities. One prominent environmentalist posted a picture of the king prawns <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> she had just bought, celebrating the fact that she had persuaded the supermarket to put them in her own container, rather than a plastic bag, and linking this to the protection of the seas. But buying prawns causes many times more damage to marine life than any plastic in which they are wrapped. Prawn fishing has the highest rates of bycatch <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> of any fishery: scooping up vast numbers of turtles <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> and other threatened species. Prawn farming is just as bad, eliminating great tracts of mangrove forests <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>, crucial nurseries for thousands of species. We are kept remarkably ignorant of such issues. As consumers, we are confused, bamboozled and almost powerless. This is why corporate power has gone to such lengths to persuade us to see ourselves this way <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>. The BBC’s approach to environmental issues is highly partisan, siding with a system that has sought to transfer responsibility for structural forces to individual shoppers. It is only as citizens, taking political action, that we can promote meaningful change. The answer to the question “how should we live?” is “simply”. But living simply is highly complicated. In Aldous Huxley’s *Brave New World*, the government massacred the Simple Lifers. This is generally unnecessary: today they can be safely marginalised, insulted and dismissed. The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide of junk. This means fighting corporate power, changing political outcomes <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> and challenging the growth-based, world-consuming system we call capitalism. As the famous Hothouse Earth paper <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> published last month, that warned of the danger of flipping the planet into a new, irreversible climatic state, concluded, “incremental linear changes … are not enough to stabilize the Earth system. Widespread, rapid, and fundamental transformations will likely be required to reduce the risk of crossing the threshold”. Disposable coffee cups made from new materials are not just a non-solution. They are a perpetuation of the problem. Defending the planet means changing the world. *Original Article Link <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…>* *Disaster* *Warnings of 'Catastrophic and Historic' Flooding as Experts Say Worst of Hurricane Florence Yet to Come* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *More Disaster* *Super Typhoon Mangkhut Rips Through Hong Kong After Pummeling Philippines* <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> <https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef31…> *"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." * *- Anonymous* *Copyright © 2018 Rainbow Warriors International, All rights reserved.* Because we have borrowed this earth from our children... *Our mailing address is:* Rainbow Warriors International 151 Lower Main Road Observatory Cape Town, Western Cape 7925 South Africa Add us to your address book <//facebook.us8.list-manage.com/vcard?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=1691503663> Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Fwd: PGA Post: Post-Growth Conference 2018
by Michel Bauwens 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Post Growth Alliance <alliance(a)postgrowth.org> Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:27 PM Subject: PGA Post: Post-Growth Conference 2018 To: Michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Europe, It’s time to end growth dependency. Sign the Petition. PGA Member Content Update: 238 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP. <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> PGA Members submit your request for content creation here <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> . Dear Michel, Thanks for being so awesome! As a supporter of this Alliance, you're helping shine a light on work that's truly making a difference. To help CUSP <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> *:* Share This Twitter Post <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> Share This Facebook Post <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> Alternatively, use any of the text below and the image above to craft your own post. But remember: to tag people/groups, put the '@' symbol before their name. *Twitter Copy:* Europe, It’s time to end growth dependency. In a petition signed by 238 academics, the global academic community is calling on the EU for change. Check out the article http://bit.ly/post-growtheurope, and add your support, http://bit.ly/postgrowthcampaign H/T @CUSP_uk #postgrowth2018 #postgrowth *Facebook Copy: * Europe, It’s time to end growth dependency. On occasion of the Post-Growth conference at the EU Parliament, over 200 scientists sent a letter to the EU institutions and member states. This conference is a huge step towards seeing a healthy economic shift towards Post Growth in the EU. The letter was published by The Guardian, and over 15 EU newspapers. The main goals for the petition include: 1. Constitute a special commission on Post-Growth Futures in the EU Parliament. 2. Prioritise social and environmental indicators. 3. Turn the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) into a Stability and Wellbeing Pact. 4. Establish a Ministry for Economic Transition in each member state More details here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/16/the-eu-needs-a-stability-a… Please sign the petition, and spread it widely. Anyone is welcome to sign it, scientists or not, European or not. A post-growth future concerns us all! Add your support here!: https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/europe-it-s-time-to-end-the-growth-dependen… Giorgos Kallis will hand over the petition to Antonio Tajani, the President of the EU Parliament this Wednesday, at the conference closure. Don't leave him alone! Conference information here: http://www.postgrowth2018.eu/ #PostGrowthAlliance submission by: @CUSP_uk and @ProfTimJackson This email was sent to michel(a)p2pfoundation.net *why did I get this?* <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5a…> unsubscribe from this list <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> update subscription preferences <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f…> Post Growth Institute · 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard · Ashland, OR 97520 · USA [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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