If you ask me, I'd say what we most urgently need to do is *less*.
Less of almost everything.
Less work, less consumerism, less travel, less buying, less waste, less stress, less pollution.
'Slowing down is the Revolution.'
It wouldn't be a solution for everything but it would be a good start.
And then #degrowth and #ecosocialism or something, I don't know. There's a lot of smarter people than me thinking about that.
Perhaps that's why no one is asking me. 🤷
@54f74c48 I think a lot about the angle of "less but it's better". Yeah, you won't have access to fast fashion -- but your clothes will be made to last, and probably even be *made to your measurements* (because that's part of making it last). Like, extremely few people my age have ever experienced having clothes that *completely fit*. There's a rich experience waiting for us in a degrowth economy.
@54f74c48 I downshifted after a big life transition (Ok, 3 of them at once). Delightful. In fact I realized some things I wanted to do were hampered by the economy - it was harder to do less, it took more effort than it should.
@54f74c48 Yes, I've thought about this too. Slowing down is good.
Our massively unsustainable environmental impacts stem from how we put an equivalent dollar value on time and resources. For example, it would cost a lot in time for an employee to take a bus to a job in the next city. In our economic system, it's much cheaper to fly. Yet the Earth doesn't care whether that journey takes half an hour or a day, just the carbon emitted.
We shouldn't be able to trade our time for burning resources.
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