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1. Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:27 JST Alx 🐈

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   • Timothée Parrique

   @timparrique 'sufficiency can also be interpreted as 'just having enough'

   I digress here pointing that the French word 'sobriété ', if anyhow related to the Italian 'sobrietà' than I think implies some cultural aspects that are lost in the word 'sufficiency'.

   #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:32 JST Alx 🐈

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     Question from the audience: 'technosolutionism complexifies things' and calling out the cost of digitalisation

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:36 JST Alx 🐈

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     Day 2 - Plenary 1
     Olivia Lazard
     'International and planetary security are not aligned'

     'We need partnership with countries that we see as fragile, the future need to be co-designed with them whether it will lead to growth or degrowth'

     OMG her speech has been incredible!

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:41 JST Alx 🐈

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     Day 2 - Plenary 1
     Olivia Lazard
     'China is an example on how supply chains can be weaponised. And China is not alone'

     'In response of an increase of defense creates more security dilemmas'

     'We are accelerating into a new era of resource accumulation and some powerful countries are ready to use war for it'

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:46 JST Alx 🐈

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     Day 2 - Plenary 1
     Olivia Lazard
     'It's not just the local environmental impact that matters, but the aggregated mining impact worldwide'

     We need to decarbonise but we are entering the change with a business-as-usual model that risk to damage the latest environmental resources

     What is in question is how we use energy and what we use energy for in term of powering economic systems

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:50 JST Alx 🐈

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     Day 2 - Plenary 1
     Olivia Lazard
     Brings the question of security into the picture and how security is pursue in a competitive scrambling for resources.

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:55 JST Alx 🐈

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     Day 2 - Plenary 1
     Stientje van Veldhoven
     'It's the system that create the consumer demand'

     'What we did was a change that was too slow and too focused on the symptoms'

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

   • Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Wednesday, 17-May-2023 00:27:59 JST Alx 🐈

     Day 2 - Plenary 1
     Stientje van Veldhoven
     'There are no silver bullets, we need to accept that this is complex'

     'We need to need to look at the root cause: which is the demand'
     'Electric cars doesn't take away the need of people to have a car, we need to take away the need for cars'

     #BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth