Degrowth: How to Make the World Poorer, Polluted and Miserable

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Degrowth: How to Make the World Poorer, Polluted and Miserable

The left has a new goal: degrowth. We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc. They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.” This idea is popular with capitalism-haters. One at a ChangeNow “eco conference” says, “A smaller, slower economy could also be a sweeter economy.” A sweeter economy? What nonsense. We already unintentionally experimented with “degrowth.” D…