Currently doing social movement and protest-related research at Social Change Lab, an EA-aligned research organisation I’ve recently started.
Previously, I completed the 2021 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. Before that, I was the Director & Strategy lead at Animal Rebellion + in the Strategy team at Extinction Rebellion UK, working on movement building for animal advocacy and climate change.
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A couple of small points:
This may be a nitpick but actually the most popular renewables (e.g. wind and solar) need so much land that they could very feasibly be/already are a threat to biodiversity and land use. See image below for an illustration, from this work from TerraPraxis.
This seems like a big claim—what are you basing this on? I mean the Industrial Revolution led to the UK/Global North growing very fast without help from more developed nations so I’m not sure why less developed nations couldn’t also develop quickly without growth in the west.
Also I think one of the stronger arguments of the post above is about resource use/other environmental constraints besides carbon emissions. It also seems like you agree that this might pose a problem for long-term/sustained economic growth? IMO this could be a consideration large enough to sway the argument in either direction.