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Re:Shrinking the economy won't save the planet by coreyh14444 on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:57AM (#41531314)
a) Nice to see this from Vox. More left-leaning readers need to hear this message.

b) Look at a country like Norway. One of the wealthiest countries in the world (due to oil!) and they invest heavily in renewable energy and have the highest percentage of electric new car sales in the world.

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Re:Shrinking the economy won't save the planet by ivann on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:29AM (#41531586)
a) You only get this message if you stop at the title. The rest of the article is not a criticism of degrowth but a criticism of it's academic literature.

b) At 12.6 tCO2eq/cap/year [0] I would not call this a success.

[0] https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2023?vis=ghgpop#emissi...

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Re:Shrinking the economy won't save the planet by dopylitty on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:43AM (#41531706)
Vox is not “left leaning”. It’s funded by right wing businesses like comcast[0] and constantly puts out right wing concern trolling like this piece and the other examples cited here.[1]

0: https://fair.org/home/comcast-owned-vox-explains-the-great-d...

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=citations+needed+vox+site%3A...

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