#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy (Repost)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Original Air Date 6/17/2022
Today we take a look at many intertwining realizations that are beginning to permeate society which include but are not limited to the dead-end mentality of infinite growth, the uselessness of growth past a certain point for wellbeing, and the deepening alienation being felt in response to consumerism in place of community.
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“Infinite growth on a finite planet is a recipe for catastrophe”
Some economists have long argued that to really save the planet – and ourselves – from the climate crisis, we need a fundamental overhaul of the way our economies work.
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In this episode, Naomi Fowler explores degrowth and how we liberate ourselves from ‘growthism’ with economic anthropologist Jason Hickel.
Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.
Ch. 5: Eco-Socialist Degrowth? w/ Paul Murphy - Rupture Radio - Air Date 5-2-22
Capitalist growth is destroying our life support systems. Every single year the material taken from the Earth to feed the insatiable capitalist appetite for profits grows larger and the waste spewing into the atmosphere, land, rivers, and sea grows bigger
We talked about the concept of 'green growth', and why the notion of decoupling growth from intensive resource use is ultimately unconvincing. We also chatted about the Green New Deal and whether it is compatible with the politics of degrowth.
Tim Jackson, ecological economist, professor, and author of the book "Post Growth: Life After Capitalism," joins David to discuss consumption, growth, macroeconomics, the modern economy, and more.
Some economists have long argued that to really save the planet – and ourselves – from the climate crisis, we need a fundamental overhaul of the way our economies work.
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Ch. 9: How We End Consumerism - Our Changing Climate - Air Date 6-4-21
How we end consumerism, explained.
We spoke with him about international capitalism during the pandemic, new opportunities for degrowth economics, and how to fundamentally move to a post-capitalist world — which will take more than just a shift in economic policy
We explored some alternative societal and economic models such as degrowth, living well within limits, permacircularity and we continue our quest by looking into post-growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this carefully selected repost episode. We're taking some short but needed |
| 0:04.4 | vacation time, which we can only do with the support of members. Speaking of which, |
| 0:08.8 | this will be your last reminder that you can snag a membership to get all our bonus content |
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| 0:20.2 | And now the show. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall take a look |
| 0:29.3 | at many intertwining realizations that are beginning to permeate society, which include but are not |
| 0:35.3 | limited to the dead end mentality of infinite growth, the uselessness of growth past a certain point |
| 0:42.5 | for human well-being, and the deepening alienation being felt in response to consumerism |
| 0:49.2 | in place of community. Clips today are from Double Down News, The Conversation Weekly, |
| 0:56.0 | The Taxcast, Upstream, rupture radio, Politics Theory Other, The David Pakman Show, |
| 1:03.5 | and with additional members only clips from our changing climate, Upstream, and Circular Metabolism. |
| 1:17.0 | Every human being grows, we grow through childhood, and then when we head adulthood we |
| 1:21.9 | reach a plateau. Our body has a regulating system which stops growth beyond a certain point. |
| 1:27.9 | Occasionally that system breaks down and a cell begins to multiply and to grow without regulation. |
| 1:35.2 | And we call that cancer. Cancer is basically infinite growth within a finite living system, |
| 1:42.3 | which is the human body. That is exactly what is happening with capitalism. Capitalism is |
| 1:48.8 | dependent on infinite growth within a finite living system, which is the planet. Capitalism |
| 1:54.9 | is the planet's cancer, and just like cancer in the human body, we have to cut it out. |
| 1:59.2 | All through my adult life I've been railing against corporate capitalism and consumer capitalism |
| 2:05.5 | and crony capitalism, and these are the real problems. And it's taken a long time for the |
| 2:11.4 | penny to drop. Maybe the problem isn't the kind of capitalism, maybe the problem is capitalism. |
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