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Degrowth economics go brrr

• PaulHoule 2y ago
  This is not "degrowth" this is a step towards a circular economy. The authors aren't suggesting that China stop building buildings.
  • Tade0 2y ago
    I believe there's going to be a slowdown either way: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/housing-index https://tradingeconomics.com/china/housing-index
    • jnmandal 2y ago
      Yes. More fundamentally than housing, this is about demographics. Human population will peak soon and then decline. Wether degrowth is embraced or forced upon actors who whine about it is the main question. Its increasingly looking like that latter, which I personally refer to as angry degrowth
      • okthenwut 2y ago
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      • solarpunk 2y ago
        I think it's probably better to think of it more as top down (club of rome, malthusians, austerity measures) vs bottom up (kohei saito, eco-socialists, shorter work weeks) degrowth.
  • jnmandal 2y ago
    Its fundamentally not possible to replace NEW cement production with recycled cement without degrowth. The nice thing about degrowth -- and lets be very serious here: degrwoth IS happening in China, and many other demographically unbalanced socitieties wether you like it or not -- is that it enables a completely circular economy whereby most minerals and even things like cement can be 100% sourced from the existing materials with no need for additional raw inputs. That's what this paper is fundamentally about.
• vkou 2y ago
  You can either have a sustainable economy, or real-world constraints will force a need for sustainability on you, whether you are ready or not. And the only thing that can exponentially grow without any limitations is a cancer. (Until it kills the host, that is.)