Degrowth: The West's Great Leap Backwards
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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you are listening to the new Discourses podcast, and |
| 0:23.5 | today we have to talk about a really important idea. |
| 0:25.8 | I don't think this will be a very long episode, so you don't have to buckle up or anything |
| 0:29.9 | like that, except in terms of the meaning of the content. |
| 0:34.0 | We're going to talk about this idea called degrowth. |
| 0:36.8 | I don't know if you've heard about degrowth, but degrowth is a catastrophe. |
| 0:40.7 | I did a podcast previously that's ultimately about degrowth. |
| 0:44.6 | If you remember, I did a podcast about this absolute zero program, absolute zero emissions |
| 0:50.4 | by 2050, which is kind of a more extreme take on net zero, which is net zero emissions |
| 0:57.2 | by 2050. |
| 0:58.2 | So the difference being that with absolute zero, we make absolutely no emissions. |
| 1:04.1 | And with net zero, was we balance it out? |
| 1:08.1 | So the amount of emissions in the amount of carbon that we're capturing and putting |
| 1:12.5 | away or whatever else balances out to zero. |
| 1:16.5 | So I came across this. |
| 1:19.6 | It's fairly short. |
| 1:20.6 | This is what I want to go through to give you a picture of it because I also want you |
| 1:23.0 | to understand what's happening in order to achieve degrowth. |
| 1:26.6 | This article on the World Economic Forum's agenda, which means it's their blog, climate |
| 1:31.8 | and nature. |
| 1:32.8 | And the title is How to Accelerate the Decarbonization of Aviation. |
| 1:36.3 | And so part of the degrowth movement, again, if you remember that previous podcast that |
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