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Shrink the Economy, Save the World?
- andsoitis 2y agoHuman progress: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit... Wouldn’t shrinking the economy reverse these trends?
- delichon 2y agoDegrowth would increase poverty and infant mortality but it could control so many diseases of affluence like obesity and it would reduce economic inequality. It shares these properties with famine, war and plague.
- andsoitis 2y ago> would increase poverty and infant mortality but it could control so many diseases of affluence like obesity and it would reduce economic inequality. Poverty and infant mortality seem worse to me than inequality.
- slwvx 2y agoI think it's entirely reasonable to aim for growth while having flat or decreasing population, limited resource use, zero or negative carbon use, and lower economic inequality. If nothing else, we should aim for growth in human knowledge and intangible assets.