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Joe Herbert

@joefherb.bsky.social
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researching economy/ecology/finance at @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social • editorial team degrowth.info • @iwgbcharityworkers.bsky.social 🍉

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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today, the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth is presented at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council. Governments around the world continue to flog the dead horse of infinite growth, while inequality skyrockets, the planet is burning, and the North exploits the South...
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Starmer doesn't recognise the scale of economic transformation required to address climate breakdown, vast inequality and poverty. The government’s growth obsession isn't the right strategy poorly executed, but a reflection of the absence of a transformative vision: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Supposedly growth *is* this government's “number one mission” and “obsession”, and we just need to wait for it to arrive. In reality, there is much wider set of structural factors at play that is making growth increasingly hard to come by in global North economies: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Creating economic growth is not the most important question of all. The most important question is how to transform economies to achieve social wellbeing for all within ecological limits, which infinite growth cannot do.
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We *need* to make zero-sum decisions. Growth is hoarded by elites and drives ecological degradation. We need wealth taxes urgently to rein in the social and ecological damages caused by extreme wealth, and industrial strategies which scale down damaging industries: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Creating economic growth is not the most important question of all. The most important question is how to transform economies to achieve social wellbeing for all within ecological limits, which infinite growth cannot do.
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We need to make zero-sum decisions. Growth is hoarded by elites and drives ecological degradation. We need wealth taxes urgently to rein in the social and ecological damages caused by extreme wealth, and industrial strategies which scale down damaging industries: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...
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Joe Herbert @joefherb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Would be nice if this 'vigilance' could also be applied to private finance behemoths e.g. BlackRock, Blackstone www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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