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Degrowth will absolutely remove more enjoyable life-years from the planet than even maintaining the status quo, let alone achieving technological progress that
by prottog 4y ago
Degrowth will absolutely remove more enjoyable life-years from the planet than even maintaining the status quo, let alone achieving technological progress that will allow carbon-free 2000MW per person. The latter is certainly preferable to the former.
- lm28469 4y ago> let alone achieving technological progress that will allow carbon-free No guarantees that we are on that path, if it was the case we'd already all be running on nuclear but we made the opposite choice, in Europe for example because gas is cheaper, cheaper = more profit = growth = better and we all see where it got us But let's continue with out ultra wasteful ways of life, surely when China and India catch up with EU/US level of waste the world will be saved