Notices by Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design), page 2

@laufi @be @aral That was no justification of Hamas from my side, and I apologise if that was the impression.

@aral oh I missed that! Whishing you a speedy recovery!

@aral Well, should I start with the UK policy on it?
Like, let's play a game on who has the worst COVID vaccination policies: and for once, no, it's not the US

As today marks another full turn around the sun, here a very updated picture of me so that you can all guess my age 😺

#Birthday

Anyone else feels like we need to delete the label 'carbon-neutral' from any sustainability vocabulary because, well, it's an enormous, gigantic lie whose only purpose is to shield business-as-usual and to make individuals feel good without them having to engage in any meaningful substancial change?

#ClimateDiary #Greenwashing

@aral the old good American exceptionalism that the Americans love so much. Like when they need to explain Russian colonialism to Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans, or monopolising the race critical discourse only through the lens of American BIPOC, dismissing altogether how racism, imperialism, and orientalism manifest in many way in other part of the world with different histories.
All my solidarity to you, Aral. There is nothing worst that being lectured by people who claim are allies.

@aral @emilymbender the Design Council UK is helping https://mastodon.design/@alx/110786478264540984

@aral @paul @vncntx I'll be happy to join it, regardless of how all this drama will ends, so please keep us updated :)

@aral I was just talking with my partner on how impossible is to claim to support any fight (whether right ot left, or right or wrong) and remaining 'neutral'. It's like, you can't be neutral if you are fighting for something!

Day 2 - Plenary 1
@timparrique
'The best way to 'green' growth is to take growth away'

Highly quotable as usual :)

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

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

Day 2 - Plenary 1
@timparrique
'Degrowth as a macroeconomic diet for an obese growth economy'

'The goal is to decouple wellbeing from environmental pressure'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

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

Good morning everyone. The second day of the #BeyondGrowth conference is starting. Being in the UK, I'm an hour delayed so I will start micro-blogging a bit later and miss the first speakers.
Here is the link to follow the plenary session this morning:

https://www.beyond-growth-2023.eu/lecture/plenary-3-addressing-the-limits-of-resource-consumption/

You can follow this thread for updates about the conference and everyone is invited to contribute.

See you in a bit
#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

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

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

Day 2 - Plenary 1
Yamina Saheb opens the day addressing a crucial concept: 'Sufficiency' and why it needs to be embedded into policies

'Sufficiency will lead to a new economy, it about protecting the most vulnerable ones'
'It will lead in a decrease of energy dependence'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 - Plenary 1
Yamina Saheb
'As individuals we are locked in the policies of our governments'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

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

Day 2 - Plenary 1
Virginijus Sinkevicius
'Being responsible is not an expense'

'The same way we include the cost of labour, we need to include the cost of nature'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth