Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us?

Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by mistrial9 on Friday June 17, 2022 @01:50PM (#31781779)

I think "eco fascist" is a ridiculous, dark mirror name calling against people who resist Big Oil and all that goes with it... likely to be a rallying cry for violence against non-violent people, too.. let's be real.

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by dredmorbius on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:57PM (#31784926)

In fairness, the realist / scientific viewpoint of limits to growth has seen violent opposition from both the ideological right and left. Nobody likes having their parade rained on.

Mauricio Schoijet's "Limits to Growth and the Rise of Catastrophism" (1999) details this.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/3985399

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985399

(I believe PDF is available, otherwise try LibGen / Sci-Hub.)

You'll find the right decrying eco-fascism, and institutions of the left, such as the SPLC (with which I generally find common cause) labeling advocates of growth limits as ethno-nationalists. Somewhat inaccurately in at least one case ("Tragedy of the Commons").

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