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Drawn from what Branko Milanovic said
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
How much of a reduction would this imply for the global top 27% (those with incomes above the global mean)? Their incomes would have to be cut by almost two-thirds.
Where this was said
↗The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal worldglineq.blogspot.com
All 5 korrents from this piecethis one is 3rd
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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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