I'll take the lesser evil of local pollution over sending billions of tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every year.
I doubt degrowth will ever happen unless it's caused by population collapse due to mass casualties.
I think education alone curbs population growth towards negatives, and that policies can easily decrease population growth far into the negative, as many modern nations have illustrated. Mass casualties aren't realistic or necessary.
8 billion is unsustainable, our population will decrease drastically in the coming century. We can choose whether it's via degrowth (a controlled, intentional, intelligent reversal of the economic growth of the last decades) or famine, disease, and war.
I fear you're right that degrowth will never happen and we're just going to march toward collapse.
I'll take the lesser evil of local pollution over sending billions of tons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every year.
I doubt degrowth will ever happen unless it's caused by population collapse due to mass casualties.
I think education alone curbs population growth towards negatives, and that policies can easily decrease population growth far into the negative, as many modern nations have illustrated. Mass casualties aren't realistic or necessary.
8 billion is unsustainable, our population will decrease drastically in the coming century. We can choose whether it's via degrowth (a controlled, intentional, intelligent reversal of the economic growth of the last decades) or famine, disease, and war.
I fear you're right that degrowth will never happen and we're just going to march toward collapse.