'Mindless growth': Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day
This is my kind of article. We can save energy by making things last longer, and then we cut the working week. Our standard of living will hardly change as most of the wealth from growth goes to the elite anyway. A job guarantee and the Basic Income is mentioned.
If we reduce working hours we can redistribute necessary labour without any loss of total jobs
One way to do this is to stop allowing companies to bloat their profits with planned obsolescence, selling products that are designed to break down simply to increase turnover. In fact, we could even roll out legislation to require longer product lifespans. If fridges and washing machines last twice as long, we will use half as many. Better yet, we can also introduce rights to repair, so we can get our phones and microwaves fixed for cheap instead of having to replace them when they break. We can shift from private cars to public transportation. And we can limit advertising in public spaces to liberate people from the psychological pressure for needless consumption.
Perhaps even more importantly, we can choose to actively scale down energy-intensive industries and wasteful luxury consumption: like the arms trade, SUVs and McMansions.
The good news is that we can do all of this without any negative impact on people’s health, happiness or well-being. The evidence is clear: we can thrive in an economy that uses less.
The Irish Times
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ReplyDeleteAs with all commie/socialists, Jason Hickel is a denier and a deceiver. Hickel denies Jehovah God’s gift of free will, freedom to choose. Jason Hickel denies Jehovah God. He is Satan’s acolyte. Hickel conceals the truths of the genocides perpetrated by the commie/socialists. Remember the Jacobins of the French Revolution? They wanted to cut the population of France by 50%+ and we all know about the guillotine and the massacres that followed. People who know history are aware of the Lenin-Stalin massacres and the gulags. People forget about the Katyn Forest Massacres of the Polish military officers et.al. during WW II by the Russian commie/socialists and that they blamed this atrocity on the Germans until the witnesses and evidence finally proved the commie/socialists were liars. People forget about Tiananmen Square massacres in China by the commie/socialists. People forget about the commie/socialist Pol Pot and the massacre of Cambodians. People forget about North Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Venezuela, Vietnam and South American nation states where the commie/socialist took or have taken control. People forget about the ruin of Cuba by the commie/socialist Castro Bros. and their Satanic acolyte cadre of evil. Yes, Hickel is Satan’s raving, immoral, acolyte deceiver. The road is broad but the gate is narrow. Many have been called but few are chosen. Jason Hickel is a commie/socialist, Satanic “Pied Piper” tootling the ignorant and the apostate and Satan’s acolytes to their “drownings”/destructions both economic and physical.As with all commie/socialists, Jason Hickel is a denier and a deceiver. Hickel denies Jehovah God’s gift of free will, freedom to choose. Jason Hickel denies Jehovah God. He is Satan’s acolyte. Hickel conceals the truths of the genocides perpetrated by the commie/socialists. Remember the Jacobins of the French Revolution? They wanted to cut the population of France by 50%+ and we all know about the guillotine and the massacres that followed. People who know history are aware of the Lenin-Stalin massacres and the gulags. People forget about the Katyn Forest Massacres of the Polish military officers et.al. during WW II by the Russian commie/socialists and that they blamed this atrocity on the Germans until the witnesses and evidence finally proved the commie/socialists were liars. People forget about Tiananmen Square massacres in China by the commie/socialists. People forget about the commie/socialist Pol Pot and the massacre of Cambodians. People forget about North Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Venezuela, Vietnam and South American nation states where the commie/socialist took or have taken control. People forget about the ruin of Cuba by the commie/socialist Castro Bros. and their Satanic acolyte cadre of evil. Yes, Hickel is Satan’s raving, immoral, acolyte deceiver. The road is broad but the gate is narrow. Many have been called but few are chosen. Jason Hickel is a commie/socialist, Satanic “Pied Piper” tootling the ignorant and the apostate and Satan’s acolytes to their “drownings”/destructions both economic and physical.
ReplyDeleteJehovah God gave us free will, freedom to choose. Jason Hickel et.al. have rejected God and now want to play god and dictate to us how to live. His deceit is manifest. He opposes honest, true and practical economics (read up on Austrian School Econ.). Hickel wants to deny us God's gift of free will, freedom to choose. Jason Hickel is Satan's acolyte. Know your enemies. Jason Hickel is your enemy if you are a Christian and he and his ilk will bring pain to all.
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