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tpq1980@iviv.hu
T Q

#UK population share by #ethnicity 2007 to 2069, using UK government fertility & #population data 2007 to 2019 & projected to 2069 using linear #growth modified by #population growth #trends derived from the 2007 to 2019 #data.

When did the #British people #vote for demographic change? When was the #referendum? Which party ran on a platform of demographic change & was subsequently #elected to office?

#britain #ukpopulation #info #demographics #ukdemographics #ukethniccomposition #ethnography #ukethnography #england #white #black #asian #indoeuropean #african #multiculturalism #birthrates #demographicchange #analysis #graphs #charts #mathematics #statistics #stats #ukgovernment #britishgovernment #immigration #multiracialism #demography #ethnicgroups #populationdata

wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation from Browne, Jackson

Into a dancer you have grown,
From a seed somebody else has thrown.
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own,
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go,
May lie a reason you were alive but you’ll never know.

Jackson Browne (b. 1948) American musician, songwriter, political activist
“For a Dancer” (1974)

#quote #quotation #death #growth #living #meaning of life
Sourcing and notes: https://wist.info/browne-jackson/55464/

WIST - Browne, Jackson | "For a Dancer" (1974)

Into a dancer you have grown, From a seed somebody else has thrown. Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own, And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go, May lie a reason you were alive but you'll never know.

dredmorbius@diaspora.glasswings.com
Doc Morbius

Reversing the Freight Train: The Case for Degrowth

... Walt Rostow, who was, along with Kuznets, one of the field’s most influential early thinkers, understood growth as the foundation of the postwar world order. His Stages of Economic Growth, published in 1960, was unsubtly subtitled ‘A Non-Communist Manifesto’. According to what is now called the ‘Rostovian’ account, growth wasn’t just the solution to domestic instability in advanced industrial economies and the remedy for the backwardness of ‘traditional’ (non-industrial) societies; it was also the antidote to socialism. There was no need for revolution: the managed markets of postwar capitalism would eventually, peacefully, deliver the fruits of modernisation – a non-violent, self-reinforcing alternative to expropriation and collectivisation. It wasn’t clear, however, how traditional societies would respond to the inevitable disruption associated with integration into the global economy. ‘How,’ Rostow asked, ‘should the traditional society react to the intrusion of a more advanced power: with cohesion, promptness and vigour, like the Japanese; by making a virtue of fecklessness, like the oppressed Irish of the 18th century; by slowly and reluctantly altering the traditional society, like the Chinese?’ ...

This reviews three recent books:

  • Tomorrow’s Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth
    by Per Espen Stoknes.
    MIT, 360 pp., £15.99, April, 978 0 262 54385 9

  • Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
    by Jason Hickel.
    Windmill, 318 pp., £10.99, February 2021, 978 1 78609 121 5

  • Post Growth: Life after Capitalism
    by Tim Jackson.
    Polity, 228 pp., £14.99, March 2021, 978 1 5095 4252 9

  • The Case for Degrowth
    by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.
    Polity, 140 pp., £9.99, September 2020, 978 1 5095 3563 7

Archive / Paywall: https://archive.ph/2022.08.10-151410/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train

#Growth #Degrowth #LimitsToGrowth #SimonKuznets #WaltRostow #PerEspenStoknes #TimJackson #JasonHickel #GiorgosKallis #SusanPaulson #GiacomoDAlisa #FedericoDemaria #Books #BookReview #LRB #LondonReview

Geoff Mann · Reversing the Freight Train: The Case for Degrowth · LRB 18 August 2022

Even for those of us who agree that the pursuit of perpetual growth is a disastrous premise on which to base our...

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

AGENDA CM& "El camino del yipao"

El Desfile del Yipao del Quindio, un Desfile Único sobre RuedasEl desfile del Yipao en el Quindío es una celebración muy típica de Colombia. Vea aquí información, fotos y videos sobre este evento

The Yipao or Jeep parade is folkloric celebration in the Colombian department of Quindío, specially during the anniversary parties of the departmental capital Armenia.

Jeep-Willys history in Colombia
The first Jeeps (M38 or CJ-2A models) arrived to Colombia in 1946 for military purposes. They were imported by the Colombian Ministry of Defense and soon became very popular among Colombian coffee farmers who saw in this vehicle the needed qualities for the difficult roads in the mountainous region of the country. Besides the transportation of coffee, Jeeps are used to transport many other agricultural products, as well as country workers to places previously accessible only to pack animals. Due to this quality, the Jeeps are also known locally in Spanish: "mulitas mecánicas"(or mechanical mules).

Many families in the Paisa region and Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis own Jeep vehicles, which have become a beloved symbol of the coffee culture. Often the Jeeps have many ornaments, icons, and flashy accessories, in a kitsch style.

The Yipao parade is celebrated during anniversary parties both in Armenia, Quindío and Calarcá, Quindío. The first edition of the parade was organized by Mrs Joan Jaramillo, headmistress of protocol of the Quindio Governor's office in 1988. The event has several categories separated according to the products carried in the vehicles:

  • Agricultural products
  • Coffee
  • Furniture
  • People
  • Institutional advertisement

The vehicles are driven by the main streets of the city and the Jeeps with the largest number of objects carried and the most harmonious arrangements earn prizes.

In February 2006, a Guinness World Records was established for the "Longest Jeep Parade" in Calarca, with a caravan of over 370 Jeep Willys vehicles.

#Jeep #parade #Colombia #transport #growth #bananas

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olladij@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com
olladij

The grim prospects of the US #economy are a hot topic for everyone, from relevant #media to opinion leaders like #ElonMusk and Donald #Trump. The chances of a full-blown recession are estimated at 50%, with individual analysts harbingering an impending economic hurricane.
The US government has indeed found itself between a rock and a hard place: on the one hand, they have to rein in the spiraling price #growth; on the other hand, they need to avoid slowing down the economy. As of May, the #inflation rate beat the 1981 record, reaching 8.6%. Spiking prices have caused an equally drastic reaction on the part of the regulator, with the Federal Reserve System upping the key interest rate by a record 75 bps (unprecedented since 1994) to 1.5-1.75% a year.
However, the market doesn't seem too impressed with the financial authorities’ efforts, with indexes setting new anti-records and fueling debates on whether rock bottom has been reached yet. Two main US indexes, S&P500 and #DowJones, have dropped by almost 20% since the New Year, with the high-tech NASDAQ plunging by an entire 30%.

https://theins.ru/en/economics/253554 #usa #covid-19 #war #ukraine #biden #crisis #fed #russia #eu #china #greece #italy #portugal #spain #recession

Greatly depressed: The US verging on recession, the rest of the world to follow

The planet's largest economy, the US is facing a tangible risk of a recession. The printing press launched to handle the pandemic, the highest inflation rates in the last forty years, and Russia’s war with Ukraine have slowed down first the...

wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation by Jefferson, Thomas

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent & untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. we might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilised society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)

Letter to “Henry Tompkinson” (Samuel Kercheval) (12 Jul 1816)

#quote #quotation #amendment #change #constitution #evolution #growth #law #progress

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/48565/

WIST - Jefferson, Thomas | Letter to "Henry Tompkinson" (Samuel Kercheval) (12 Jul 1816)

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent & untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting...

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