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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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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The fallacy of graph is that is assumes environmental degradation is linear. It does not account for technological advancements which are always improving efficiencies pushing the curve down. Like peak oil theory which time and time again shown to be false.
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It's pretty obvious at very basic levels: you get better sport fishing opportunities on rich countries' shores than on (heavily populated) poor ones because the former have stopped depending on local fisheries to survive. Poverty wreaks havoc on the environment
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You don’t fight oversimplistic narratives and arguments by out spimplify them.
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