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Geopolitics and Degrowth<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The\u00a0Geopolitics of Degrowth\u00a0holds that real power flows not from waste, centralization and coercion but from decentralization, relocalization and the free flow of value.<\/i><\/p>\n

Conventional geopolitics is all about\u00a0more<\/i><\/b>: more military power, more sanctions, more coercion, more influence.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Geopolitics of Degrowth<\/i>\u00a0is all about the\u00a0the power of less<\/i><\/b>: wasting less, consuming less, needing less from other nations, reducing dependence on rivals, reducing coercion and centralized over-reach.<\/p>\n

Conventional geopolitics concentrates wealth and political power in a giant dam on the biggest river.<\/b>\u00a0Centralized control of massed power is considered the acme of geopolitical strength. Everyone is coerced into funding and relying on the dam.<\/p>\n

But this has it backwards:<\/b>\u00a0when the centralized dam bursts, the nation is in ruins. This vulnerability isn’t power, it’s weakness. The Degrowth model of strength is to make local use of every rivulet, stream and tributary, carefully shepherding its sustainability and use.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to the mainstream, the world has entered an era of scarcity.<\/b>\u00a0The current abundance is a temporary flush of the last of the cheap-to-extract resources. Once this illusory abundance has been consumed, all that’s left is hard-to-extract, costly resources.<\/p>\n

In an era of scarcity, power flows not from coercion but from needing less by consuming less<\/b>\u00a0by eliminating the tremendous waste and friction that consumes resources, capital and time without generating any positive returns.<\/p>\n

The conventional mindset is deadset on maintaining this waste and friction, as if it was positive rather than negative.<\/b>\u00a0By focusing on “growth” in GDP, our system optimizes waste, fraud, friction and a throwaway mentality. The reality that 40% of everything we consume is wasted is not even recognized. In the conventional mindset, the goal is to\u00a0waste more<\/i>\u00a0by accelerating\u00a0The Landfill Economy<\/i>\u00a0of buying some product that fails or is obsoleted even faster than the previous generation.<\/p>\n

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Geopolitics and Degrowth The\u00a0Geopolitics of Degrowth\u00a0holds that real power flows not from waste, centralization and coercion but from decentralization, relocalization and the free flow of value. Conventional geopolitics is all about\u00a0more: more military power, more sanctions, more coercion, more influence. The\u00a0Geopolitics of Degrowth\u00a0is all about the\u00a0the power of less: wasting less, consuming less, needing less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[24078,203,391,587,20243],"class_list":["post-62019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-charles-hugh-smith-2","tag-degrowth","tag-growth","tag-of-two-minds","tag-relocalisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62020,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62019\/revisions\/62020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}