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>locking in first mover advantage, but doing it by accusing others of what you yourself are guilty of is disgustingly hypocritical If we don't get degrowth goi
by carlmr 4y ago
>locking in first mover advantage, but doing it by accusing others of what you yourself are guilty of is disgustingly hypocritical
If we don't get degrowth going now it's going to be too late for the world.
It's hypocritical, but also if the world is industrialized completely it won't be livable anymore.
In either case, it's the tragedy of the commons and we're all f-ed.
- eru 4y agoWhat makes you think so? What specific bad things do you have in mind that would happen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_change#Aggregate_impacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_ch... suggests that eg climate change's economic impact will be between 0% to 20% loss of GDP. That's a lot, but it's also only about at most a decade of growth. It's also a lot less than the difference between the US and the UK's GDP per capita. It would hurt Americans to have to live like Brits, but British living conditions are far from an existential threat.
- carlmr 4y agoI'm worried about the climate impact of economics, not the economic impact of climate change. We could live with less, and we have to if we want to at least lessen the impact of climate change. So we need to get a concerted effort going for degrowth in the world. But it looks like every country is still aiming for maximum industrialization and growth, which is understandable since it's individual optimization.