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degrowth

Do we shrink our way out of the climate problem, or grow our way out? — the views on this, and who holds which

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

FilterEveryone, all time6 from 3 people
Group All Economists & investors 1Founders & executives 1
Who Everyone BMBranko Milanovic 4 JCJohn H. Cochrane 1 PLPieter Levels 1
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  1. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone

    Our readingEco/degrowth are the exact same thing with the exact same end goal

    Their wordsI think they'd be smart banning eco/degrowth next, as they're the exact same thing with the exact same end goal

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  2. 13 months earlier
  3. JC

    John H. Cochrane quoted

    Economist at the Hoover Institution

    Our readingHigh electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness.

    energyEurope

    Their wordsThe average European and UK voter, once he or she moves on from immigration, will notice how Europe and the UK have made energy unaffordable, stopped its growth-exactly as degrowthers wish-and deindustrialized, on the altar of climate policies that do nothing to improve the climate.

    ↗Climate turning pointgrumpy-economist.com 4th of 4 in this piece

  4. 8 years earlier
  5. BM

    Branko Milanovic quoted

    Economist specialising in global income inequality

    Our readingFreezing world output at today's level would condemn a quarter of humanity to permanent abject poverty.

    Their wordsThen, unless we change the distribution of income, we are condemning to permanent abject poverty some 15 percent of world population that currently earn less than $1.90 per day and some quarter of humankind who earn less than $2.50 per day.

    ↗The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal worldglineq.blogspot.com 1st of 5 in this piece

  7. BM

    Branko Milanovic quoted

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

    Their wordsHow 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.

    ↗The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal worldglineq.blogspot.com 3rd of 5 in this piece

  9. BM

    Branko Milanovic quoted

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

    Their wordsThe world would have to move from an inequality level that is higher than that of South Africa to complete equality that has never existed in any recorded society.

    ↗The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal worldglineq.blogspot.com 4th of 5 in this piece

  11. BM

    Branko Milanovic quoted

    Our readingThe way to cut emissions is to tax the most emission-intensive goods, not to stop growth.

    Their wordsIt would make more sense, if we want to think seriously about how to reduce emissions, not to engage in the illusions of degrowth in a very poor and unequal world but to think how the most emission-intensive goods and services could be taxed in order to reduce their consumption.

    ↗The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal worldglineq.blogspot.com 5th of 5 in this piece