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In reply to the discussion: Can we achieve growth & equality while kicking Climate Change? [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)7. Can they not be?
Can we create equal standards of living without growth? Can we put in water lines in Africa and power without mining those resources and having production?
The only answer would be to give up water and power elsewhere. Right? If we are not growing to raise people up, we must be decomplexifying to meet in the middle.
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It's not the size of our economy, it's our income distribution that's the problem.
pampango
Jan 2013
#59
These ideas can't do anything for the global situation unless implemented en masse
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#15