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New Energy For Europe - For a new Europe within planetary boundaries and

28 Nov 2022

In fact, Europe’s and the world’s malaise is the same: our addiction to energy- intensive and environmentally hostile production and consumption models is killing us (and life on the planet) and contributing to increasing inequalities. [...] If the laws of physics continue to apply, we are due for a rationalisation of consumption around the world, regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine. [...] Resilience Resilience is the ability of a system and its component parts to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects of a hazardous event in a timely and efficient manner - including ensuring the preservation, restoration, or improvement of its essential basic structures and functions. [...] The real way to reduce exposure to high prices and instability, deliver on the climate commitments, and support peace and prosperity for all is to avoid unnecessary extraction, production, and recycling of products and packaging that are not crucial to increase wellbeing, sufficiency, and resilience. [...] Proving the success of a different model of consumption and a socially and ecologically just economy, capable of encompassing increased wellbeing with sufficiency and resilience, is the best contribution that Europe can give to the world.
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