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Alx 🐈

I know a lot of people will think that this is a 'radical leftist ideological approach', but when I read calls to 'design ways to survive the heat', I really feel sad for the current limited productivist vision has.

You know what will help us to survive? Downscaling production, stopping billionaires, ending colonialism (yes, it's still there) and shifting to a post-growth economy of care.
You know how designers can help? By stopping designing products we don't need.

@alx Exactly.

I feel the same way about programmers rallying for "green IT". 99% of the time it's just a PR campaign for services that shouldn't exist in the first place.

By far the greenest IT is to refuse to build and run services that are unecological or socially unjust

@alx so, so much this. People will buy any new products that are put in front of them. Design should be about creating things that work well and last a good long time, are repairable and use less resources. Convivial products to misquote Illych.