Shrink the Economy, Save the World?
www.nytimes.com
Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.
  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    I remember an urban planner and climate scientist/communicator discussing the changes that need to be made. He pointed out in his research and the book he published based on it, that it’s cheaper for governments to do climate friendly change than it is to maintain the status quo regardless of climate disasters. He says that yea it’s degrowth, but it needs to be framed as efficiency to get interest

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        It was called Project Drawdown. The statements about degrowth are just author comments about the research, and didn’t get discussed in the study

  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Just one thing I believe to be really important in selling it:

    less consumption -> less production -> less work

    That means degrowth is earlier pensions, shorter work weeks, more vacation time and so forth. For many people chilling on the beach is saving the planet.

  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Good thing we didn’t spend the last 50 years attaching everything to the stock market because that would have been a real pain to untangle

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, everything is expressed in monetary value. But health, clean air, clean water, health nature do not have monetary value, so they don’t matter.

      GDP is the total of wealth generated. So a housing shortage, pushes up housing prices, which looks good on the books… look at all that economic growth.