Behavioural science & digital business consultant • writing at the intersection of human behaviour, post-growth business & planetary boundaries 🌱
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Ultimately, each small pro-environmental action likely makes no difference (directly) AND all the difference in the world (indirectly)
What would you draw if asked to imagine an economy that works for everyone?
@donmacca tested this with 10K+ people worldwide, who consistently drew:
⭕️ Circles
♾ Infinity symbols
🌀 Spirals
❤️ Hearts
Never linear growth charts. We know what a just economy looks like
Listen to the full episode on the Moral Footprint podcast for an exploration of not-for-profit business, how to reclaim agency by moving your money, why progressive taxes can't fix inequality and much more: open.spotify.com/episode/43r…...
"The climate crisis is not, in fact, a mystery or a riddle we haven’t yet solved due to insufficiently robust data sets. We know what it would take, but it’s not a quick fix – it’s a paradigm shift." @NaomiAKlein
Martin Luther King, Jr's words in @Michael_Kwet's Digital Degrowth:
“When machines & computers, profit motives & property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
The biggest barrier to sustainable, post-growth business isn't resistance.
It's that professionals assume their views are divisive when they're actually part of the 86% majority.
Here's what my research collaboration with @DarioKrps11, Fred Basso and @LSE_PBS reveals:
The problem isn't convincing business professionals that a new paradigm is needed.
The conviction already exists.
It's helping them realise they're not alone.
Read the full research at jenimiles.com/research/post-… or comment RESEARCH and I'll DM you the paper
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The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
Carbon capture wasn’t invented to fight climate change.
It was built by Big Oil... to get more oil from dying wells. 🛢️
Not a climate solution. A fossil fuel booster.
#CarbonCapture #BigOil #ClimateTech
I unpacked the science with physicist-economist Erald Kolasi.
🎙️ The real limits of carbon capture
💥 Why it's mostly a delay tactic
🌍 What real climate solutions need
📺 Full episode: youtu.be/U1SLXBvPUzg
Subscribe to the Moral Footprint podcast to go beyond surface-level climate “solutions” and explore the deeper social transformation we actually need.
open.spotify.com/show/2DDvhL…
#ClimateTruths #EnergyLiteracy #PostGrowth
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why would Just Stop Oil do this? don’t they see how much this inconveniences working people and just turns everyone off their cause?
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Thread on the potential impact of the @TheGreenParty gains this week. Especially in @leamgreens.
Back in 2019, Warwick District Council declared a climate emergency and then made a bold cross-party proposal - to increase the council tax of the wealthiest by £1 / week. 1/7
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🇬🇧 BREAKING: Greens GAIN Buntingford (East Hertforshire) from Con x3.
@EastHertsGreen have 17 seats!!!!
#LE2023
