Some thoughts: degrowth

Sep 11, 2021

Some argue that shrinking the economy would help with climate change. They're wrong.

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> or by reducing the population, which I don’t think anyone would advocate

Oh, you're gonna be disappointed... 😜

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Some essays debunking degrowth

Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about “degrowth”: the idea that to solve the climate crisis, we should shrink the economy and therefore reduce humanity’s carbon footprint to a manageable level. These essays by Maia and Noah Smith articulate why I think this is a bad idea…

3 years ago · 2 likes · Eevee Ciara

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