Robert B Fishman
Berlin. They hack, steal, fake, lie - and thus uncover scandals. There is no such thing as infinite growth on a finite planet. So far, this truism has hardly penetrated the boardrooms of German business. As an alleged “Federal Office for Crisis Protection and Economic Aid”, the art and satire group The Peng Collective asked the bosses of large companies for a plan beyond the need to grow. The answers: sobering.
Hamburg Airport wants the planes to continue flying as if nothing had happened. Westfleisch could "also throw peas into its machines". But consumers are demanding cheap meat - no matter where it comes from and who pays the bill. In this way, companies are shifting responsibility onto consumers and politicians. She speaks out with the practical constraints of the economy. So we carry on as usual until the whole thing blows up our ears. Climate change, pandemics, species loss, environmental destruction. No matter.
“Words like sufficiency economy, solidarity economy and post-growth economy are still foreign words from the catalog of utopias. And if politicians don't take the biggest challenges seriously, if the myth of eternal growth continues to be thrown at us, we just have to take the receiver of the Ministry of Economic Affairs into our own hands ”, write the action artists on their website. There is a summary of the discussions with the CEOs of ten large German companies (including RWE, BMW, Vonovia) here
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