The environment needs more people, not fewer
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The environment needs more people, not fewer
To sum up, we don’t actually know how much growth is possible for a given amount of resources. We need to limit resource extraction for environmental reasons, but we shouldn’t assume that this will cause a halt to growth. Instead, we should expect it to shift our production from bent pieces of metal to subtler means of enjoyment. The more we immers... See more
Noah Smith • The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth
L’accroissement démographique de l’humanité est un objet de crainte depuis que Malthus semblait avoir établi que la population croît plus vite que les ressources alimentaires.
Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
The contemporary “degrowth” movement, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgios Kallis explain, isn’t against growth, per se; it calls, instead, for a critique of growth as an end in itself, for the “decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and for the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective.” [4] In other word
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possible to observe the unfolding human attack on nature with horror, be determined to do whatever you can to stop it, and at the same time know that much of it cannot be stopped, whatever you do? Is it possible to see the future as dark and darkening further;