Someone in Belgium, Dirk Holemans, argues that instead of using 'ontgroei' (degrowth), we should use the term 'omgroei', which is similar, but not quite the same as regrowth. Re-growth is a repeating, restoring thing; om-groei is a changed growth.

Yes.. I was just musing a bit on the terms. There's wordplay in #Regrowth in that it also means starting anew i.e. create a wholly alternative system to that of world-destroying #Hypercapitalism

The #capitalism seed sprouted a horrendous meat-eating fungus. Need to replant a new organic system to take over and collectively kindle a seedling to regrow #humanity into healthy #sustainability-first direction. So there's a #future for mankind, and not #extinction.

sounds like the #thrivability alternative to #sustainability. we need to avoid focusing on compromise and resignment, which do not help supplant the previous systems.

I work on premise of holistic sustainability, loosely based on #CirclesOfSustainablity model, which I redefined to better align with natural and emergent systems (see alt-text).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circles_of_Sustainability

#SustainabilityFirst and at all times is crucial, for many reasons. Like span-of-control in keeping the system sustainable in the 1st place. What's fun is that a lot of concepts start to become circular in further philosophical elaboration. More akin to our natural world.

Btw in this diagram it is clear that a #sociosphere is needed, or else we are all stuck in the #technosphere as we are today.

I call the hypothetical sweet spot where socio and technosphere are seamlessly aligned and tuned to the needs of people and planet a #peopleverse ..

The current #fediverse is a typical technosphere. We can emulate some "social" but social bandwidth is tiny. There's a lot of "manual social" (the regular kind) we can do to improve, realizing this.

It is extremely difficult to tame and control human communication, or simulate a sociosphere, when limiting expression to #500characters (default on sw) just so owners of servers can emulate twitter

Then owners of servers are free to erase what has already been said and often make a participant vanish.

Only in the worst of American dictatorships did people vanish at such high rates silently

@smallcircles @travisfw @mysteriarch

You have technospheres and then you have technospheres. Some support more social than others. We need one that can carry a #society and it ain't the current #fedi for sure.

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