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Here's a few cases against degrowth: - https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realizing-that-degrowth https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realiz

by flaque 4y ago

Here's a few cases against degrowth: - https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realizing-that-degrowth https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realizing-that-... - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/economic-growth-shouldn-t-be-a-death-sentence-for-earth?sref=R8NfLgwS https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/econom... The TL;DR is "the idea that economic growth requires growth in resource use is false; rich countries have started to grow while using less and less of the planet’s most important resources."

jay80 4y ago
Not really, they are just outsourcing resource intensive manufacturing processes to developing countries and then reimport the finished products thereby making it appear they achieve their growth by using less resources.
yamrzou 4y ago
For the bloomberg piece: https://archive.ph/2tFbt https://archive.ph/2tFbt It's worth noting that the two articles are written by the same person, Noah Smith.