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Journal Nature: ‘Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help’ – ‘Wealthy countries’ need to ‘abandon economic growth as an objective’ to ‘fight against climate breakdown’

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/14/nature-jumps-the-shark-degrowth-can-work-heres-how-science-can-help/ Pure Communism Disguised as Economics. By Charles Rotter As the pushback against ESG grows louder, this tone-deaf and economically illiterate article pushing pure communism central economic control appears in Nature, with the title and tagline: Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if […]

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on ‘Defund the Economy’ – ‘The marvelous, muddled mess that is ‘degrowth’

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/defund-the-economy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=119454&post_id=90633829&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email By Roger Pielke Jr. It has become fashionable over the past decade to promote the idea of “degrowth” — or if you wish to sound smart at a dinner party, décroissance. On Monday, Nature published a call to “degrowth,” claiming that “degrowth can work” and “wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon […]

CNBC Video: ‘Degrowth: It is time to live better with less?’ – ‘To some [COVID lockdowns] elevated hopes that carbon emissions had peaked & illustrated the potential for a long term low carbon recovery’

Via: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/05/20/degrowth-is-it-time-to-live-better-with-less.html # Background:  Great Reset By Marc Morano – Chapter 12 Excerpt: ‘COVID Lockdowns Morph to Climate Lockdowns’ Degrowth: Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim — Seek replacing with ‘indicators of human well-being’ Greta Thunberg denounced world leaders for their main focus on what she called “the fairy tale […]

‘Lockdown’ (again) to punish Putin! Report urges Europe to ‘ban all business flights, private jets & internal flights…ban car use within cities…reducing heating in buildings’

Climate Depot Special Report A new report is urging Europe to hurt Putin by imposing COVID lockdown-inspired energy bans on Europeans. The RePlanet report, being touted by the UK Guardian, is calling for a “ban all business flights, private jets & internal flights,” imposing a ban on “car use within cities” and “reducing heating in buildings,” all […]

Economic ‘Degrowth was already proposed in 1850s by JS Mill’ – ‘Bad argument then…bad argument today’

    Bjorn Lomborg: “Degrowth was already proposed in 1850s by JS Mill. “Most advanced” countries already had enough, just needed better distribution. In 1850, UK was below Bangladesh today. Bad argument then. Probably bad argument today. https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-13-winter-2021/degrowth-in-the-age-of-dickens   Degrowth in the Age of Dickens Mar 1, 2021 By Charles Kenny – a senior fellow […]

‘Degrowth’ movement going mainstream: COVID lockdowns inspire ‘shrinking the economy’ to save planet! -Economic growth ‘is itself the problem’

    https://www.axios.com/degrowth-economic-growth-climate-change-pandemic-774933af-9209-4b74-89fb-b4a783a87305.html By Bryan Walsh Some environmentalists and economists are pushing for “degrowth” — stabilizing or even shrinking the economy — to avert environmental catastrophe. The big picture: Degrowthism may seem like the only reasonable response to the climate challenges we face, but the experience of enforced economic shrinking during the pandemic indicates the pain would […]

Degrowth: Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim — Seek replacing with ‘indicators of human well-being’

https://mailchi.mp/12f71b6f2d97/economic-growth-is-bad-for-the-climate-europes-science-academies-claim-179010?e=c5b7f2141b 1) Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim GWPF, 30 October 2020 2) Focus on GDP and economic growth is unhelpful for the climate, European group says The Daily Telegraph, 29 October 2020 1) Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim GWPF, 30 October 2020 Europe’s […]

‘Scientists’ warning on affluence’: Study: Wealth harms the planet! Solutions? ‘Degrowth’; ‘Eco-socialism’; Banning ‘oversized vehicles’; ‘Eco-feminism’; ‘Maximum income levels’

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y Published: 19 June 2020 Scientists’ warning on affluence Thomas Wiedmann, Manfred Lenzen, Lorenz T. Keyßer & Julia K. Steinberger Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 3107 (2020) Cite this article Abstract For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better technology. The affluent citizens […]

Paul Ehrlich on COVID: ‘We desperately need a national shutdown, and ordered from the top’ – Also admits it was ‘mistake’ to put in ‘scenarios’ (predictions) in his ‘Population Bomb’ book

VIA GrowthBusters podcast Interview: http://www.growthbusters.org/ehrlich-earth-day-2020/ PAUL EHRLICH – UNCENSORED ON EARTH DAY 50TH ANNIVERSARY (PODCAST EPISODE 43) Listen here:  Interview with Emeritus Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich – April 22, 2020 On his 1968 book, The Population Bomb (49: 00 min) Ehrlich: “People seem to think that a scientist always believes exactly what he or […]

STUDY in Nature: Global wealth redistribution, economic ‘degrowth’ needed to fight ‘global warming’

Via: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456138/environmentalists-push-global-wealth-redistribution by WESLEY J. SMITH February 6, 2018 9:00 AM The environmental movement wants to make the rich West much poorer so that the destitute can become richer. Rather than improve the plight of the developing world through such crucial projects as constructing an Africa-wide electrical grid, environmentalists say significant progress will have to wait until the […]