Oh boy, you can see the tecno-optimist bias of many EAs in the downvotes this post had.
I don’t believe it is prudent to place all of humanities chips in green growth. I don’t place my chips there.
Degrowth doesn’t mean that the GDP (absolute or per capita) of the Global South has to decrease. Actually it will have to increase!
What many EAs may dislike about degrowth is that it goes against their capitalist values of infinite growth in a world with finite resources.
There is also a high degree of optimism bias and status quo bias on all the downvotes of this post.
Do the EAs who downvoted this post really learned what degrowth consists? Have they read about voluntary simplicity or about buen vivir?
You can be an effective altruist and be a degrowther. I am one.
To all EA degrowthers out there: Please don’t hide the fact of not sharing the same values of perhaps the majority of EA who are firm believers in the tecno-otimist capitalist worldview point. Be honest with yourselves and others. Don’t follow the sheep on the way to ecocide.
We can all be jolly about EA in 2023 but the world in 2030, 2040 and 2050 will be much different, with more extreme weather events, droughts, heat waves and an ever increasing area in which humans will have fewer and fewer possibilities of living with quality (or even being able to live in them).
Technology alone won’t save us from 1.5°C if our mentalities of ever growing growth and consumption remains.
Are we on target to meet the goal of minus than 1.5°C of average global temperature increase?
Oh boy, you can see the tecno-optimist bias of many EAs in the downvotes this post had.
I don’t believe it is prudent to place all of humanities chips in green growth. I don’t place my chips there.
Degrowth doesn’t mean that the GDP (absolute or per capita) of the Global South has to decrease. Actually it will have to increase!
What many EAs may dislike about degrowth is that it goes against their capitalist values of infinite growth in a world with finite resources.
There is also a high degree of optimism bias and status quo bias on all the downvotes of this post.
Do the EAs who downvoted this post really learned what degrowth consists? Have they read about voluntary simplicity or about buen vivir?
You can be an effective altruist and be a degrowther. I am one.
To all EA degrowthers out there: Please don’t hide the fact of not sharing the same values of perhaps the majority of EA who are firm believers in the tecno-otimist capitalist worldview point. Be honest with yourselves and others. Don’t follow the sheep on the way to ecocide.
We can all be jolly about EA in 2023 but the world in 2030, 2040 and 2050 will be much different, with more extreme weather events, droughts, heat waves and an ever increasing area in which humans will have fewer and fewer possibilities of living with quality (or even being able to live in them).
Technology alone won’t save us from 1.5°C if our mentalities of ever growing growth and consumption remains.
Are we on target to meet the goal of minus than 1.5°C of average global temperature increase?
Thank you OP for this post.