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The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less: The degrowth movement wants to shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being.(www.vice.com)

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yimby@lemmy.ca
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I think a more fair take is that we need growth in underdeveloped places and degrowth in highly developed places. It’s less about changing the total economic output and more about changing how that output is distributed.

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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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No, it’s about how much carbon we are putting I to the atmosphere. Pretty simple issue actually.

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escapesamsara@discuss.online
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Which is a direct function of development. All of Africa produces less CO2 than Alabama, and Alabama is the least developed state in the developed world.

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