'Mindless growth': Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day

Irish Times ^ | 9/09/19 | Jason Hickel

[grey_whiskers]

Go sit on a high-speed rotary porcupine.

AGW is a monstrous f*cking LIE.

Even if it WERE true, China creates more CO₂ than the US and the E.U. put together.

Not to mention India.

[zeestephen]

Thanks for your Comments.

I disagree.

I still think the author is speaking about “common ownership.”

Taxation becomes meaningless if everyone “owns” proportionate shares of the productive economy.

[palmer]

Socialism, communism, wars and pestilence eventually cause a LOT of "degrowth". There is no need to intentionally do it.

Eventually. The problem is that poverty and lower life expectancy raises birth rates. OTOH wealth lowers birh rates. Of course wealth is created by growth.

[justa-hairyape]

It is called Climate Change. All the left brings is death and misery.

[Army Air Corps]

Communism, now in Green!

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Paul R.]

Great analysis. I hereby challenge AOC to come on here and publicly debate you. (Heheheh!)

Your discourse reminds me of the cash for clunkers fiasco. The environmental footprint of owning a new car for, say, 10 years, including both it’s manufacture, distribution, and operating components, is in most cases far greater than the environmental footprint of operating a similar capability “clunker” (including repair parts) for that time. This only reverses when the “clunker” becomes so unreliable or runs so poorly that its repair and operational costs make it uneconomical vs. obtaining a new (or at least newer*) vehicle, even if one does a lot of their own maintenance.

*In only one instance did I ever buy a new car - way back when I went from a ‘68 Oldsmobile Delta 88 to a Honda CRX 1.3. All my other purchases have been used cars, most 3-5 years old & in good shape. But I did all for economics, not so I could say I was “saving the planet”.