If we look at the news and who is in charge now, it seems to be very unlikely that #globalwarming will be limited to 1.5°C. All the #climate conferences and international agreements are useless if our world leaders insist on fighting each other who has the biggest kingdom or continue to follow the "business as usual" scenario in the #limitstogrowth simulation. Is it inevitable that the world is heading towards disaster and a likely #collapse of civilisation? Why can't our leaders sit together, eat some Shakshouka and forget their petty differences about who is the strongest so that we can start to address the real problems?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163751
#LimitsToGrowth
"Debt - The First 5,000 Years", David Graeber, p390 #capitalism #ecology #limitstogrowth #debt #davidgraeber
#WritersCoffeeClub 5 June 2025:
World Environment Day. Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, “I wish I wrote that.”
'The Limits to Growth':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
Even though there have been different views on the report in the more than 50 years since it was first published, I found the considerations and hypotheses in this work very interesting when I read it for the first time.
The myth of endless growth runs into physics & finite resources of our planet. EROI: solar ~1:4, wind single digits → huge energy/material costs for manufacturing + storage/backup. Renewables alone can’t fuel perpetual growth. #EROI #ResourceConstraints #LimitsToGrowth
🌍🔮 "Futurists and investment writers walk into a bar and suddenly 'Limits to Growth' is everyone's favorite cocktail 🍸. Who knew economic doom could be so trendy? Just don't forget the obligatory disclaimers, because nothing says 'collapse' like covering your assets. 💸"
https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-overshoot-and-collapse-new-data/ #Futurism #EconomicTrends #LimitsToGrowth #InvestmentCocktail #AssetProtection #HackerNews #ngated
Well today there's a big discussion on Gelmans blog of what is #capitalism and how does it differ from markets and there's some talk on #environmental #economics and #limitstogrowth etc... Check it out here
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/26/capitalism-as-the-antimarket/
Someone sent me a link to an audio recording about #LimitsToGrowth and #Collapse.
I couldn't open it because it went to a paywall called spotifie or something like that.
Ironic.
Limits to Growth was right about collapse.
"This improved parameter set results in a World3 simulation that shows the same overshoot and collapse mode in the coming decade as the original business as usual scenario of the LtG standard run."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/
"...As the system constantly (re)produces inequality, it is very hard to correct it with policies.
When growth stops, discontentment spreads; the inequality and the associated powerlessness are major components of the political backlash against globalization and its complexity."
Article: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/complexity-energy-people-and-inequality/
Poverty & Progress Essay: https://gardenearth.substack.com/p/poverty-and-progress
The Collapse of Complex Societies book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-collapse-of-complex-societies-joseph-tainter/6554178
#LimitsToGrowth #DeGrowth #Bookstodon #Economy #Sustainability
"As one of the Limits’ authors, Dennis Meadows, always insisted when asked, technology can delay a peak, but the crash comes harder when it comes."
Kicking the can down the road doesn't get rid of the can, class.
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/
![Limits to Growth was right about collapse
Andrew Curry, originally published by thenextwave
May 20, 2025
The only question is whether we manage de-growth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.
A version of this article was also published on my Just Two Things Newsletter.
Image of a Globe with graphic chart curves superimposed.
"The overall conclusion by the article’s authors is:
[T]he model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and industrial agriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer sustainable. Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics.
They also note that the cause of this turning point is resources, not ‘pollution’:
This interconnected collapse… occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution."](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/542/124/451/812/646/original/6c663c1e2827128a.png)
Sure, we have moved on 20yrs since then but lately I'm more inclined to think we have opportunity to still move in this direction. That we are maybe a little less constrained by the physics of the system (not saying there are no constraints of course!) but politics and social organisation is still key.
Fin du #néolibéralisme : vers un nouveau capitalisme ? (2025)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/Croissance.php#capitalisme_finitude
En préalable, rappelons la conclusion du rapport #Meadows : « Une #croissance illimitée dans un #monde limité, est mathématiquement impossible. »
« Mais, et si le gâteau ne pouvait pas grossir ? Et si pour croître, il fallait prendre aux autres, que plus de #PIB pour moi, ça voulait dire moins de PIB pour les voisins ? »
#Informassue #LimitsToGrowth #Effondrement #Collapse #Trump #Capitalisme #Finitude
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2025/05/off-the-marx-hitler-spectrum/
My German student sent me that blog article and it looks like I should get in touch with that physics professor at UCSD because he's one of the few people I've seen writing that kinda stuff outside of the fediverse at least. #anarchy #ecology #limitstogrowth
"The issue we are facing is really a physics problem. Governments can print money, but they cannot print resources, especially energy resources."
Brace for rapid changes in the economy
Our Finite World
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/04/24/brace-for-rapid-changes-in-the-economy-the-world-economy-is-reaching-limits-to-growth/
#LimitsToGrowth #degrowth
Is the bioeconomy a sustainable solution for the planet? https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2025/04/11/is-the-bioeconomy-a-sustainable-solution-for-the-planet/ #environmentalconflicts #sustainabledevelopment #ecologicaleconomics #sharingoutthewealth #byophisicallimits #economicdemocracy #renewableenergies #climateemergency #economicgrowth #limitstogrowth #sustainability #bioeconomics #cooperation #fossilfuels #Highlight #biosphere #Analysis #forests
The environment can't sustain cars. We own an average of 6 vehicles a lifetime. Huge energy/resources are required. Recycling's energy intensive. There's no surplus in the renewable energy generation to achieve this. Renewables need replacing every 20-30 years, no fat to replicate those either... wheelbarrows. Handy things :-)
When I say this I get stomped on by people relying on renewables to solve all things. They're not solutions, they're the next problem. I get the grief.
#limitstogrowth
honestly, i am somewhat relieved ugo bardi didn't become a full blown lunatic like most of the other 2nd generation of collapseologists.
feels good to read someone who thinks like me. has been a lonely time since the whole jill stein drama destroyed my community.
Ich bin pleite, aber lass mich tanzen auf der Schwelle zu diesem neuen Leben, das kein Geld braucht um wirklich zu sein.
//
I'm broke, but let me dance at the edge of this new life that doesn't need money to be real.
#Vibramundi #drawing #inkdrawing #art #Mastoart #zither #animal #fantasy #fauna #tavern #music #commons #community #broke #strugglingartist #gifteconomy #limitstogrowth
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