My new (today's) post: The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal world http://glineq.blogspot.it/2017/11/the-illusion-of-degrowth-in-poor-and.html …
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I think it is what
@jasonhickel is advocating? eg: https://theconversation.com/time-for-degrowth-to-save-the-planet-we-must-shrink-the-economy-64195 …
I agree w Branko that GDP growth =/= material throughput. But not sure about "Squeezing everybody to the same level wld mean that the total emissions produced by the new GDP wld be less"? Relationship of inequality & emissions ambiguous https://chrismuris.github.io/GKMM2017-emissions.pdf …