(I haven't read the article yet so apologies in advance if this is just noise, but uh...) A lot of people seem confused about "degrowth". (In quotes because i

(I haven't read the article yet so apologies in advance if this is just noise, but uh...) A lot of people seem confused about "degrowth". (In quotes because it's a terrible neologism.) Look, people, degrowth is going to happen. It's not optional. We overshot basic physical realities and a "correction" is coming. The question is not whether we drastically change our economic and industrial systems, because that's going to happen no matter what, the question is how to soften the disasters so that billions of people don't die in the next century or so. Just to hammer this home: things will change, because Nature will change them for us. We can try to mitigate the worst of it, but we will have to scramble. The good news is that we know what to do and how to do it. We could fix things overnight (well, within a year or three) if we really put our minds to it, because we already have all the solutions (most of them were worked out in the 1970's!) The debate about degrowth is not whether or not to do it, the debate is whether to cushion the blow or just run off the cliff.