Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by epistasis on Monday August 09, 2021 @08:03PM
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What does "growth based" economics even mean? I think it's an incoherent concept, and have never gotten the same answer from two different people on the matter. Growth of GDP? Growth of energy use? Growth of carbon emissions? Growth of population? These different types of "growth" get substituted in, silently, to move an argument forward, but if one looks at details and tries to be specific, everything falls apart.
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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by Karrot_Kream on Monday August 09, 2021 @08:17PM
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I agree with you. In my last post I'm using "growth based" to represent the status quo, nothing more (I'm not trying to say anything about why it is growth based.) If I were writing more carefully I should have simply called it out as the status quo instead of calling it "growth based".