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@matthewtoad43 @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis
Sorry, but the term »degrowth« is a red flag for me.
Sure, we are getting more efficient over time. That's why even Germany's emissions fell over the last two decades.
But cutting power that is actually needed means poverty, and that will immediately end support for long-term thinking as well as severely limit our technical options.
There are too many people for romantic visions of rural self-sufficiency.
@Ardubal @matthewtoad43 @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis
'#degrowth is a red flag for me' - seems an odd thing to say.
It is not a new idea that humanity is meeting it's natural limits and will have to cut it's cloth & that the #climatecrisis challenge should be shouldered equally.
In some ways degrowth has already happened in #energy where we are using less energy than was predicted through demand side measures.
Degrowth sounds interesting to me.
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