Matt Orsagh
@mattorsagh.bsky.social
Normalizing the conversation about a post-growth world.
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If the people who believe these things could just be comfortable with the fact that they aren’t that important, we’d be a lot better off. #degrowth
If the people who believe these things could just be comfortable with the fact that they aren’t that important, we’d be a lot better off. #degrowth
You Are Not Living In a Simulation
Get over yourself
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October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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If the people who believe these things could just be comfortable with the fact that they aren’t that important, we’d be a lot better off. #degrowth
If the people who believe these things could just be comfortable with the fact that they aren’t that important, we’d be a lot better off. #degrowth
One of the main hurdles many people have with #degrowth is imagining what it would look like in practice. Most of us live in societies where the pursuit of growth is taken for granted as an unquestioned good, if not a necessity.
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What Does an Economy Without Growth Look Like?
Like this ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One of the main hurdles many people have with #degrowth is imagining what it would look like in practice. Most of us live in societies where the pursuit of growth is taken for granted as an unquestioned good, if not a necessity.
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-does-...
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-does-...
Thank you to Gabriel Bonnamy at MIT who had me as his first guest on his Empty World Podcast. I am honored to be his first guest and know a few of the people who will be his upcoming guests. I encourage you to tune in. The people coming up are worth it. #degrowth
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#1 - By Disaster or Design
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October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thank you to Gabriel Bonnamy at MIT who had me as his first guest on his Empty World Podcast. I am honored to be his first guest and know a few of the people who will be his upcoming guests. I encourage you to tune in. The people coming up are worth it. #degrowth
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Reposted by Matt Orsagh
“If degrowth and the management of our resources continue to be seen as perversions of society, then we are in desperate need for the most perverted, subversive, disruptive and renegade deviants as a matter of urgency. Because these are the only humans who can survive”
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“If degrowth and the management of our resources continue to be seen as perversions of society, then we are in desperate need for the most perverted, subversive, disruptive and renegade deviants as a matter of urgency. Because these are the only humans who can survive”
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If your conference to save the world is trending on Instagram - you are doing it wrong. #degrowth
If your conference to save the world is trending on Instagram - you are doing it wrong. #degrowth
Climate Week
What is the purpose of these meetings again?
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September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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If your conference to save the world is trending on Instagram - you are doing it wrong. #degrowth
If your conference to save the world is trending on Instagram - you are doing it wrong. #degrowth
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No one of you reading this has the ball by yourself. But if you form a large enough coalition, and act in solidarity, you can take the ball and go start a new game with rules that better serve you. #degrowth
No one of you reading this has the ball by yourself. But if you form a large enough coalition, and act in solidarity, you can take the ball and go start a new game with rules that better serve you. #degrowth
Take Your Ball and Go Home
Go find a better game to play.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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No one of you reading this has the ball by yourself. But if you form a large enough coalition, and act in solidarity, you can take the ball and go start a new game with rules that better serve you. #degrowth
No one of you reading this has the ball by yourself. But if you form a large enough coalition, and act in solidarity, you can take the ball and go start a new game with rules that better serve you. #degrowth
I challenge the sustainability professionals at #climateweek (and during every week) to take a long look at the sustainability world and ask if it is getting the job done.
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Potemkin Sustainability
The green village was never there.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I challenge the sustainability professionals at #climateweek (and during every week) to take a long look at the sustainability world and ask if it is getting the job done.
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/potemkin-s...
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Came across this and thought I would share. Free online event listening to Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth talk about #degrowth, donut economics and the care economy. Tomorrow.
www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with Kate Raworth - The Conduit
Wed 17 Sep, 6pm - 7:30pm Ecological economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth on building a healthier and more humane society.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Came across this and thought I would share. Free online event listening to Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth talk about #degrowth, donut economics and the care economy. Tomorrow.
www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
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Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.
Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.
Have We Had Enough of Capitalism?
And why do we only get two choices?
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September 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.
Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.
“Is that fire behind us. I feel warm.”
“I can’t see anything.”
“Mmph!”
“I’m sure everything is fine.”
#degrowth
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“I can’t see anything.”
“Mmph!”
“I’m sure everything is fine.”
#degrowth
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Context Matters
If you weaponize ignorance, we are going to come for you.
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“Is that fire behind us. I feel warm.”
“I can’t see anything.”
“Mmph!”
“I’m sure everything is fine.”
#degrowth
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/context-ma...
“I can’t see anything.”
“Mmph!”
“I’m sure everything is fine.”
#degrowth
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/context-ma...