You're muddying the waters by conflating aggregate wealth ("make everyone poorer") with distributional equity - standard degrowth confusion, which I address in the book, but if you want the details you'll have to buy it! 🤣

Laughably ignorant nonsense. If that rubbish were true, goods and services plus all human development indicators would be greater/better in the past prior to "capitalism".

Nevermind...

Simple, obvious, and non-controversial:

Availability+accessibility of goods&services ==> measurable outcomes in health, literacy, life expectancy, infant/child/maternal mortality, self-reported happiness, etc. (e.g. HDI metrics).

PhD at UCLA under Suzanna Hecht, a cofounder of the field of political ecology. Dissertation fields were political ecology, ecological economics, environmental justice. Degrowth promises the moon, but in reality absolutely makes everyone poorer. Just one reason why it is a truly terrible idea.

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False assumptions about ecological restoration are built into the overshoot logic taught to undergrads. Using standard bathtub analogy: falsely assumes fixed tub size, no pumping, etc. Sorry, too busy to debunk the entire Degrowth orthodoxy today. See my book and video series for details.

Degrowth is an idea too bankrupt to be salvaged or accommodated or appeased. It's like thinking slavery is a way to handle labor shortages. Just, no.

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