No Political Impact Man, more like. This is the most liberal thing I’ve seen today.
Degrowth, American Style: No Impact Man and Bourgeois Primitivism (PDF)
“Political, no impact man”, otherwise it is contradicting itself.
Climate change is obviously very much political. Liberalism is a politics of individualism, a politics of capitalism, which is why it fails to meet the collective challenge of climate change.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing that article. I hadn’t read the book but rather shared this image I found since it was cheeky. I gathered it’s a privileged and reductionist take on degrowth within the confines of capitalism.
degrowth within the confines of capitalism.
Holy oxymoron, Batman!
Exactly!
Had to read this book for college and then go to a seminar the guy talked at. You could instantly tell why the man spent so much time in the book talking about the consequences of refusing to use toilet paper, because his head was so far up his ass it was the only thing he probably experienced.
Climate change is a real problem, and it needs more awareness and more action, but this guy definitely hurt things more than he helped.
Yikes. Those “guru” types are the worst.
Finally watched Dont Look Up yesterday. Was so on point and infuriating. Relevant.