Aaron Vansintjan

Book cover of "The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism"

Page from "The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism" outlining the seven forms of growth critique central to Degrowth: ecological critique, socioeconomic critique, cultural critique, critique of capitalism, feminist critique, critique of industrialism, South North critique.

For me, this book didn't feel particularly revelatory because it's just common sense. Infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet, and measuring economic stability with a single metric (GDP) completely flattens and obstructs reality. @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social @avansi.bsky.social #climate

How public grocery stores could work in Canada - CCPA Chances are you spent some of your holiday gatherings talking about the price of food. Costs to consumers have increased by almost 30 per cent since 2020, while mega-grocers doubled their profit margi...

A public grocery network across Canada could save families approximately 30-45% off their grocery bill, depending on where they live—and would only cost a reasonable amount to set up. By @avansi.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social Raj Patel Anna Paskal
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Fantastic short video on how a publicly owned grocery chain would work in Canada.

Any #NZPol Food Policy policy nerds on here keen do some analysis on how this might work here in Aotearoa NZ?

Why Canada needs public grocery stores YouTube video by The Breach

"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice"

An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...

Great discussion with Nick on @broadbent.bsky.social's new Class & Climate podcast. Give it a listen!

🎙New Class & Climate episode: @avansi.bsky.social‬ + Vijay Kolinjivadi join‪ @greeneconnet.bsky.social's Nick Pearce to take on the “sustainability class” and show why green consumption isn’t enough.

Listen here: perspectivesjournal.ca/the-sustaina...

Potentially of interest to @erikamorris.bsky.social @catsenay.bsky.social

Join us for our Montreal book launch for The Sustainability Class on May 22 at Pulp Books.
We'll be joined by Alejandra Zaga Mendes, MNA for the party Quebec Solidaire in Verdun.

@thenewpress.bsky.social

pulpbooks.ca/events/26445...

The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism YouTube video by Haymarket Books

Our event with @haymarketbooks.org yesterday is now up on Youtube! It was a delight to hear what Ashley and Emma had to say about what environmentalism for everyone looks like.
@thenewpress.bsky.social @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCa...

The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism We are currently witnessing the dismantling of environmental policies and a reversal of climate commitments on a large scale. But what kind of environmentali...

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Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social
, and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism.

Stream here:

Action on Climate Change May Look Different Than You Expect Talk a walk through the Los Angeles’ Arts District, and you’ll learn that there's nothing contradictory about trying to save the world and living a luxury

“In fact, the future on offer by the sustainability class is not sustainable at all. Or rather, it only promises to sustain the present order of things—which all indicators suggest is hurtling towards ecological breakdown…” #degrowth

@avansi.bsky.social
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/a...

The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET

Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism.

Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

How can we reject the sustainability class, and build a working class environmentalism capable of progressive change? 🌏

Join us Thu Apr 24, 2-3:30pm EDT (7-8.30pm BST) as we discuss this key climate issue:

@ashdawson.bsky.social
@avansi.bsky.social

www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

yes, all this and more is in the first few pages of our book!

The book was on the New Books shelf at Ann Arbor’s district library. Just finishing the introduction and already I see the connections behind Trump/Musk actions in such stark focus - from gentrification, nearly complete over-class, minerals mining in Greenland! Ukraine! The world’s oceans! The moon!

Heading to the US for some book events, with @vijaykol.bsky.social and @eleanorfinley.bsky.social

Book Review – The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists Written by Kevin Picado 14th February 2025 Norway, widely praised for its green policies and renewable energy initiatives, has cultivated a reputation as a global leader in sustainability. Its land…

"If the members of this class are to be more than a green aristocracy, they must relinquish their grip on the environmental narrative."

@kevinini.bsky.social reviews The Sustainability Class by @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social

wccalliance.org/the-sustaina...

Hanging out with Aaron and Vijay to talk about the distortion of sustainability to equal green consumption with moral implications and ask: what is to be done?

We’ll be announcing more dates soon in cities like Montreal, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto ... contact me if you’d like to help set something up.

The Sustainability Class with Authors Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan | Brooklyn Public Library

Register for the Greenpoint library event here www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/sus...

The Sustainability Class is heading to New York City!
Come see us talk at two different events:

Greenpoint Public Library, Brooklyn
Saturday January 25, 1:00-2:30pm

Woodbine, Queens
Sunday January 26, 4:30pm

@vijaykol.bsky.social

They're going for geoengineering and extracting the very last drop.
A friend also pointed out that in this context, nuclear energy is abysmally stupid. There will be no one around to contain waste for the millennia needed—add to that geopolitical and climate disruption. But hey, SMNR will save us.

Actually it's more than that, the title is wrong... according to the report, GDP would fall by 50%, not GDP growth. That's astronomically worse. It also predicts 4 billion people will die—much much worse.

From Fossil Capital to Green Capital – Spectre Journal Kai Bosworth reviews Adam Hanieh's Crude Capitalism, arguing that Hanieh's analysis hellpfully emphasizes the "capitalism" in "fossil capitalism."

"speculative leftist conversations about the potential necessity of CCS and other 'modern' technologies appear naive and irrelevant—these are the means of our class enemies, seeking only to prolong and intensify the uses and extent of fossil fuels." -@kaibosworth.bsky.social

Everyone must read this great book by @avansi.bsky.social and @vijaykol.bsky.social !

I can also report that zoomers and Gen Zs love the term "third places". I thought this was sociology jargon and relatively obscure, but it's like it is used all the time by young people?