What are examples of societies that have successfully gone through DEGROWTH?
As in their GDP went down while their well-being went up?
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Follow-up question
What is the empirical evidence that the desire for growth is cultural, and not innate?
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There are none. We'll have to invent a new path. But we can bring humanity down to about a billion people and have a world where everyone thrives. It's an arbitrary number. I could be persuaded either way.
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I'll look much more into planetary boundaries. I'm sniffing poor mental processing. Maybe I'm wrong.
OK so it's a theoretical model.
A core tenet of degrowth is that the desire for growth is cultural, not innate.
How can this be empirically defended without examples?
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China under Mao went well. Degrowth in everything worked extremely well. Degrowth in bone density, average height, life expectancy, even the entire population. And yes carbon emissions too, thank God.
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Thankfully, Mao's China is not in the Bingo Card of Degrowthers
Cuba is, though
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British Empire - Great Britain.... relatively speaking I think it fits... not the Spanish Empire...
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England here, the same is valid for the UK
I don't think splitting countries counts as "degrowth"
That's more like degrowth accounting
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Japan (so far) but it had the first mover advantage and was able to export to countries that still had healthy growth. As most of the world now entering various rates of degrowth, there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to export.
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“While GDP is likely to shrink in a "degrowth society", i.e. in a society in which the objectives of the degrowth movement are achieved, this is not the primary objective of degrowth.”
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The degrowth ideas require GDP degrowth. They are married.
I contend that you can't make that happen while increasing well-being
I'm looking for any empirical evidence to corroborate that
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