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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. Mattei. The book cover is red and grey, and the letters are in black.
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. Mattei
#degrowth #socialism #decolonisation
The #UN is beginning to say it out loud:
An economy designed to serve the ultra-rich is incompatible with planetary survival.
Climate crisis and inequality are the same problem.
#degrowth #inequality #socialjustice #tellthetruth #taxtherich
Today in Groningen: 'The Cost of Growth | Doc Screening + After-talk' 📆 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...
#CriticalApproaches26 @postgrowthplan.bsky.social @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social
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The EU is betting on deregulation - here's why that won’t work: neweconomics.org/2026/02/the-...
Small rejoinder to the cohort of people who confidently tell you Ireland should turn to nuclear power.
After inventing solar and wind, it just doesn’t make economic sense, and it takes too long to implement.
Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced
"Right now we are in a situation in which the violence of the economy has reached a very very obscene peak. We have 12 people in the world owning more than the bottom four billion people."
#degrowth #socialism
And so it begins
General Scheme for the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026
#PassengerCap
@thinkorswim.bsky.social @hannahdaly.ie @autofac.bsky.social
Obvious. China’s emissions and pollution is not falling nearly fast enough to maintain a habitable Earth for humans.
So, as expected, the government cannot unilaterally remove the @dublinairport.bsky.social passenger cap.
“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,” Abrams said www.theguardian.com/environment/...
worth covering on the Pod greenfuturessolutions.com/news/recalib...
The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & normal for people to sleep in tents in the freezing cold. Temperatures to hit -4 this week
But the idea Billionaires could be less rich. Not poor, not struggling, just a bit less rich, this is seen as extreme and radical
"Landlords and real estate developers, for example, do not have an interest in an “abundance” of housing because it would collapse the price of the commodity they wish to sell for a profit" jacobin.com/2025/08/klei...
"The Celtic Tiger did not fail because we dreamed too big. It failed because we stopped planning. Because we forgot that growth is a tool, not a trophy. Because when the music was loudest, we lost the discipline that got us there in the first place."
The EU Mercosur Trade Agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis & exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition. Join our call & say no to this toxic trade deal. Email your ministers & MEPs now www.environmentalpillar.ie/stopeumercos...
If you or I put a private sewer discharging waste into one of our rivers or lakes, there'd be total *hell* to pay.
But a whole industry doesn't just get away with constantly polluting, the government makes a priority of fighting for their right to continue.
The result is our rivers are dying.
“Simplification” sounds harmless - until you realise its a Trojan horse to weaken critical environmental laws that protect our air, water and Nature itself.
These laws protect you. Let’s protect them back.
Tell EU leaders: #HandsOffNature
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
The government presents its demand for a new nitrates derogation (pollution permit) in Brussels as a demand of the Irish public.
This counterpoint argues that it is actually being demanded by a subsection of the agriculture industry, and is in conflict with a genuine public interest: clean water
Excellent piece by Brian Caulfield.
We keep falling further and further behind our European counterparts when it comes to sustainable transport solutions.
The Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce Report mentions "Judicial Review" 112 times. "Public Participation" = 0.
Its full on 'Judicial Review Derangement Syndrome'
@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social really enjoyed your pod on GDP/growth. FYI, Haberl et al. (2020) reviewed all studies on the ‘Green Growth’ (decoupling) and concluded there was no empirical evidence that it was effective iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Beyond the 1.5°C pre-industrial threshold for 12 months in a row
www.euronews.com/green/2024/0...
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
1 A Mental Map of Capital’s Domain 2 The Circulation of Labour Capacity and the Origin of Profit 3 Technological Dynamism and the Productivity of Labour 4 Marx in Manchester 5 The Falling Rate and Rising Mass of Profit 6 The Equalization of the Profit Rate 7 Masses in Motion 8 The Production of Space, Time and Place 9 Social Reproduction and the Circulation of Labour Power 10 Extractivism and the Metabolic Relation to Nature 11 Fixed Capital and the Consumption Fund 12 The Circulation of Interest- Bearing Capital 13 The Troublesome Case of Fictitious Capital 14 Accumulation by Dispossession 15 The Return of the Rentier 16 The State-Finance Nexus 17 The Geopolitics of Capital Appendix: Piero and Me
Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
Germany: 104m2 (1,120 sqft) new build family apartment, daylight on 3 sides, cross ventilation, proper balcony 12.5m2 (135 sqft) for €2,500/month
..this is sustainable urban living that people need & want, at density to support public transport & facilities..not small dark rooms on long corridors
“Let me start with main headline that "everything is being judicially reviewed" by "objectors" who are "blocking" housing & infrastructure
This is an outright lie
Data shows that members of the public are on track to take 40% fewer JRs in 2025 compared to 2024” www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-...
When asking questions becomes the problem, something’s gone very wrong.
@kfmradio.bsky.social
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