Degrowth is also based on the fallacy that economic activity has a constant or at least near-constant energy intensiveness. But real-life economies already vary by at least an order of magnitude in energy consumed per unit GDP. So as long as energy intensiveness declines faster than the population grows, it’s still a net win.
And just to keep things in perspective, there’s also a lot of false narratives about how population reductions are inevitably a bad thing. The underlying reason is that some of the measures of economic performance are proportional to population. But those are the wrong measures to be looking at if you want to know how life is for the average (median) person.
Degrowth is also based on the fallacy that economic activity has a constant or at least near-constant energy intensiveness. But real-life economies already vary by at least an order of magnitude in energy consumed per unit GDP. So as long as energy intensiveness declines faster than the population grows, it’s still a net win.
And just to keep things in perspective, there’s also a lot of false narratives about how population reductions are inevitably a bad thing. The underlying reason is that some of the measures of economic performance are proportional to population. But those are the wrong measures to be looking at if you want to know how life is for the average (median) person.