@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 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 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'
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:
Day 2 - Plenary 1 Virginijus Sinkevicius 'Our linear economy model is not leading us anywhere' He is also the first talking about ecodesign paradigm, which - as a designer - I am sceptical really a lot, but some ideas like a design passport for products are interesting and worth to be explored more in depth
@timparrique 'sufficiency can also be interpreted as 'just having enough'
I digress here pointing that the French word 'sobriรฉtรฉ ', if anyhow related to the Italian 'sobrietร ' than I think implies some cultural aspects that are lost in the word 'sufficiency'.
Day 2 - Plenary 1 Virginijus Sinkevicius He acknowledges what they've done so far but there is an urgent need to do more, but they need a new language to talk to all their stakeholders and have them on board. He also acknowledges how the risk of the reverse is very high
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