Posted on 09/21/2019 2:13:35 AM PDT by Libloather
Once confined to the small scientific community of climate researchers and ecological economists, the idea of degrowth is now blazing into the mainstream. Not surprisingly, people are trying to figure out what to make of it. Is it an inspiring idea that points the way to a better economy? Or is it a mad notion thats sure to plunge us all into poverty?
Degrowth is a planned reduction of total energy and material use to bring the economy in line with planetary boundaries, while improving peoples lives by distributing income and resources more fairly.
The scientific case for degrowth is robust, and gets stronger every day. We know that high-income nations - including Britain and Ireland - must make dramatic and very rapid reductions to their emissions in order to avert dangerous climate breakdown, cutting carbon at a rate of about 15 per cent per year. This will require a massive mobilisation to roll out all the solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear power stations we need to get to net zero.
But theres a problem. Because high-income nations consume so much energy, it may not be feasible to generate renewables quickly enough to stay within a fast-shrinking carbon budget. According to climate researchers, the only way to make it work is to reduce total energy use.
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“improving peoples lives by distributing income and resources more fairly”
Yeah, that usually results in some pretty heavy duty “degrowth”.
And yet none of these folks will say that one obvious way to implement degrowth is to stop immigration from 3rd World to 1st world countries. That is the best path to achieve their goals and yet no one will propose it.
btt
Marxism style communism has always claimed to be scientific, yet actual social experiments (Russia/USSR, China, Cambodia, Venezuela, Cuba, N. Korea and on and on) prove that the reality bears no resemblance at all to the Marxist communist hypothesis.
Yet when this is pointed out, the advocates simply deny the reality.
I say every tree hugger, every meat hater, every wacko who begs forgiveness from plants, every pronoun user, every dickchopper, every headchopper, go right ahead with the degrowth. Start by sterilizing yourself so you don’t spread your insane genes. Then reduce your intake of protein until you get your nourishment like a plant does. (Stand out in the sun with your feet in the ground.)
Degrowth is Africanization, Mugabe style
Degrowth is a planned reduction of total energy and material use to bring the economy in line with planetary boundaries, while improving peoples lives by distributing income and resources more fairly.The Irish Slimes unashamedly publishes fascist propaganda.
When the war is over, in the worlds social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earths riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers.
Benito Mussolini
Sounds like another commie word maze designed to do nothing but attract liberal supporters.
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of communism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.The materialistic argument always attempted to use science to support it (implying that divine revelation was nonsensical and unscientific), but always falls apart when the science invariably does the opposite.
Lenin, Religion, Introduction
By reproducing at less than 2.4 kids per couple, our populations have been shrinking.
The Chinese did it by law.
Muslims haven't been doing this.
Africans haven't been doing this.
Latinos in South and Central America haven't.
Most third world countries haven't
Socialism, communism, wars and pestilence eventually cause a LOT of "degrowth". There is no need to intentionally do it.
I think the Irish send too much time in their taverns.
...and that's where I stopped reading. Will the Leftists ever run out of ways to take what they haven't earned?
“...improving peoples lives by distributing income and resources more fairly.”
And there it is.
I’m all for degrowth especially when it demands nutsy enviro climate change liberal vegans stop exhaling CO2.
Ah, the No-Growth movement of the 70s returns
Only applies to Whitey
Everyone else gets to pollute they azzes off
So instead of going to work, the Irish would prefer to sit in their shebeens and swill their liquor? Surprising, isn’t it.
This is an excellent resource. It has 50 years of the most dire climate predictions, starting with the ICE AGE in the 70s. Lots of visuals and easy to read. I have been having a lot of success posting this whenever I see a post touting climate destruction on social media.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
Thank to, http://freerepublic.com/~truebelieverforever/
LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS THE CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT WRONG:
1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (theyre not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York Citys West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (its not)
2000: Children Wont Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Dont Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to Save The Planet From Catastrophe
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before Climate Chaos
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees!
Sorry, Experts Sorry, Scientific Consensus Only a fool comes running for the 42nd cry of wolf.
List ‘experts’ got right:
ZERO
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
“Degrowth is a planned reduction of total energy and material use to bring the economy in line with planetary boundaries”
There are two problems at the base of that statement.
The definition of just what those boundaries are is not scientific nor is there a proven method for determining them. Just remember back to the 1970s when the same kind of people said they had convincing evidence that by the year 2000 we would be unable to feed the world and mass starvation would be increasing. Is that what happened?
Those who buy into the theory are not motivated by trying to save either the planet or humanity. Buying into the theory is a means of using the theory for political agendas, not improvement of the world or humananity.
Thank you!
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