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Environment & Energy

Iterate

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8. I was suprised enough by seeing it mentioned in a major paper,

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #7)

Mon May 6, 2013, 10:16 AM

May 2013

and maybe more surprised that it wasn't slammed to the ground by editors and German politicians. Cut consumption? The Burger King is not amused.

I think I'll make a map of the borderlands for arguments over solutions, from "tweak around the edges" to "you've got to be shitting me". This is a bit north of "saving string", and not as far east as "a bloody revolution running down the peddlers of debt-driven growth". It might be too late, but I'll live there for a while.

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Less Is More: Rogue Economists Champion Prosperity without Growth [View all] Iterate May 2013 OP

Anti-growth = right-wing austerity. David__77 May 2013 #1

The article (and the concept) has nothing to do with austerity or abolishing wheels. Iterate May 2013 #2

Did you even try and read the article? hatrack May 2013 #3

That's a pitfall but not an inevitability caraher May 2013 #4

Technological and productivity improvements. David__77 May 2013 #5

Seems the article seeks a re-definition of prosperity (and conversely, austerity). wtmusic May 2013 #6

It's a good beginning. Now lets see a few rogues champion degrowth. GliderGuider May 2013 #7

I was suprised enough by seeing it mentioned in a major paper, Iterate May 2013 #8

+1 GliderGuider May 2013 #9