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In reply to the discussion: Can we achieve growth & equality while kicking Climate Change? [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)9. "and their footprint"
Which probably requires an immediate recognition we are no longer going to be striving for tomorrow's 2-car garage, iPhone 8 toting tech-Utopia that requires perpetually more production. Otherwise, the day after tomorrow will look like a Doomsday Prepper's dream (and the day after that they die of famine after their food cache runs dry and they choke on their AR15's bullets)
And if that doesn't sound preferable (a future where we all have less wealth and gizmos in this economic engine), maybe we need to start looking at different paradigms that do not include industrial civilization as we know it.
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It's not the size of our economy, it's our income distribution that's the problem.
pampango
Jan 2013
#59
These ideas can't do anything for the global situation unless implemented en masse
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#15