The claim of running out of ecological space or earth (e.g. ecological footprint) is simply wronghttps://www.forbes.com/sites/bjornlomborg/2017/08/02/one-planet-is-enough/#4a20a3dc3263 …
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Silly: 238 academics claim we need to embrace no-growth economies, because of environmental limits and declining productivity gains This is incorrect, as is their claim that degrowth can improve our quality of life https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/16/the-eu-needs-a-stability-and-wellbeing-pact-not-more-growth …
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Yes, there are environmental problems, but these are mostly fixed when societies get richer: stop worrying about basic challenges (no food) and afford to worry about the environment (air pollution, deforestation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve …pic.twitter.com/9hGHgocCee
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Indoor air pollution – the world's biggest environmental killer – kills much less, when you get richer https://ourworldindata.org/indoor-air-pollution …pic.twitter.com/Ah8AVBbGIu
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Outdoor air pollution first kills more (as you focus on getting out of poverty) and then less – as you get richer http://www.india.uitp.org/articles/the-cost-of-air-pollution …pic.twitter.com/DN0vlAWHRy
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Deforestation declines as you get richer, and once you get rich enough you start buying *more* forest (reforestation) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378005000798 …pic.twitter.com/e6chF6ILDR
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They claim declining productivity could lead to no growth in Europe within a decade. Maybe we should try to fix that with better education and regulation?
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The claim that no-growth or de-growth would be good for us is simply wrong. Both within and between countries, life satisfaction *increases* with higher income http://www.sole-jole.org/12513.pdf Published here: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.103.3.598 …pic.twitter.com/Iocu7AgShq
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The claim that no-growth or de-growth would be good for us is simply wrong. 4 of 6 good life indicators increase with higher incomes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X15307117?via%3Dihub …pic.twitter.com/NxC6pviwt4
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Oh, and all of these researchers will fly to Bruxelles with their laptops to tell the rest of us we need to cut back on flights and luxuries like laptops. Hypocrisy, much?
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What do they say about those who demand ever more: more health care, more education, more police, more benefits, more spending ....
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...more democracy... ahem.
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