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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 …
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 …
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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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