Degrowth shared out equally would cut the incomes of everyone above the world average by about two-thirds.

degrowth Deliberately shrinking output as a climate strategy, and the arithmetic of who pays for it.

On the topicDo we shrink our way out of the climate problem, or grow our way out?under our view: Shrinking output means somebody stays poor, and the arithmetic says who

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Degrowth would require the world to go from an inequality worse than South Africa's to a complete equality no recorded society has ever had.

The claim about the Gini is the arithmetic of the claim about incomes: getting everybody to the global mean is what takes world inequality from worse-than-South-Africa to a flat distribution no society has recorded.

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