climate voter/woke supremacist on Nostr: #degrowth Those who are obsessed with the economic growth paradigm insist that we ...
#degrowth Those who are obsessed with the economic growth paradigm insist that we need to decouple growth from carbon emissions, for example. However, they are pursuing a metric that does not measure well being. If I do something that saves money and I get the same value from the activity or product, this shows up as a decrease in GDP even though I am better off.
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