The ‘demographic crisis’ is one of economics and states, not the persistence of the human race. The ratio of the old to the young is increasing drastically. Our global economic systems are simply not designed to support this. Our states cannot exist —as they are—without constant growth and those that fall behind are left behind.

The solution to the ‘demographic crisis’ is to move towards economies that are not based on constant growth so that the phenomenon is no longer a problem. Ironically people will probably be more interested in having babies in this scenario as well. Global capitalism is depressing, soulless, and does not make me go “wow I hope my decedents get to experience this.”

Haha my first thought was those modern cars that have rat problems because they wrapped the wires in a plant based wrapping that rats enjoy

Really well written—thank you. I’ve been thinking a lot about the price of outsourcing our responsibility to cooperate with each other and with the climate to politicians. Everyone organizing towards their own community’s subsistence also gives us valuable knowledge and skills related to self-governance and seems far and away more ‘scalable’ than what we are doing.

separately, It’s sobering that the gates foundation is cutting its climate funding in line with the trump admin.

So interesting that the two arctic orca groups don’t recognize each other as potential mates

Hoorah!

m a g n e t s are always the answer

Loaded fine for me on ios firefox and safari

Huh, I was under the impression we already did this

Why did they have to link to that absurd libertarian article with basically no argument at the end though

Obligatory EPI Institute webpage on this (recently updated for 2024!)

Thanks for explaining

I’m somewhat new to the degrowth space, how does it interface with earlier theories like post scarcity economics and similar? My immediate reaction after reading this article (but not being familiar with Richie’s work) is that she’s completely ignoring the historical impact of globalization on exploited geographies and the underlying growth incentives that continue to drive it. Not to mention the moral frameworks (manifest destiny, civilized vs uncivilized people groups, etc) that make this behavior permissible… I’m trying to imagine what infinite non-destructive accumulation would look like