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I'm with you. we need to act even if it means the end on economic growth. Economy is a mean to an end not the end on itself.

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I just don't know why people think infinite growth forever is desirable, or even possible.

1% growth annually is more than a doubling every century. Speaking on a quantitative level, that seems insane to contemplate.

Economic growth doesn’t necessarily means ressource consumption growth.

Every study that I know show that the dematerialization of economy will lead to a degrowth [1]. Moreover there are many non material things that we need but the majority used to be free. Having time with friends and family for instance. Do we need to turn our relations into a commodity only to achieve growth? Why are we so obsessed with growth that we are willing to exploit ourselves and the planet in order to achieve it?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804739/

Of course it does. Economic growth always means growth in energy consumption even if it is more brains thinking, brains need food (i.e. energy).

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