@kawentzmann @gerrymcgovern Yes. Degrowth means lowered GDP, which correlates strongly with poverty. You have to first work out a way to decouple GDP and poverty. Then you can talk about degrowth.
Some things do work, though. Higher density urbanization uses fewer resources, and is therefore cheaper. Same with more public transit and bike infrastructure. Eliminating fast fashion (which is oil based). But if you can't convince people of those minor steps, how will you convince them to change every aspect of their lives? It would take a dictatorship.
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In response to this post@dan613 @kawentzmann @gerrymcgovern GDP was a wartime measure, never meant to be an ongoing measure/goal. Correlation is not causation. Degrowth is a method of decoupling poverty from "low GDP" which could mean anything from not enough hospitals to too many (from the perspective of a logging company) intact old-growth forests.
@SallyStrange @kawentzmann @gerrymcgovern GDP correlates strongly with poverty. The Gini index measures inequality within a nation. Regardless, degrowth means fewer hours worked to meet lowered needs. Maybe the two will go hand in hand, by everyone working fewer hours, but more likely it means fewer people with jobs, as it always has in the past.
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