Damn, nailed it

This feels difficult to write because it seems to demand a terse, on the nose way of summarising what has already been said more delicately and comprehensively in previous chapters. How do you make it not repetitive?

Read it in full here: degrowth.org/blog/2025/09...

This is the argument made by my friend and colleague Riccardo Mastini in a policy brief on a Green New Deal beyond growth for @r-degrowth.bsky.social

Wealth taxes and the expansion of high-quality universal public services should therefore be essential components of any "Green New Deal" program. They can help move our economies and societies towards private sufficiency and public abundance

Public goods/services such as (collective transport) are usually more efficient at meeting fundamental human needs than their private counterparts. We can have high quality public services that are both efficient and beautiful

Any just response to climate change requires "recomposing" both the character and distribution of consumption. The extreme consumption of the super rich needs to be reigned in, but this doesn't need to mean austerity for ordinary people

privatization and underinvestment has created a sense of scarcity but it is not that we don't produce enough to have functional and attractive public services. The growth of the superrich means that society does not share the abundance that is already being produced

E.g. the interior of Barcelona´s Estació de França 😮‍💨. There´s no reason all our train stations can't also be this beautiful.

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