China ain’t degrowing, they’re growing, like rapidly.
You can totally argue it’s a more well planned, sustainable growth (I’d argue that), but Xi ain’t exactly making people go back to living in mud huts and farming rice now is he.
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View all comments Theres a place between living in huts and farming rice and the omnicidal consumption we’re doing in the west. Why even pretend that’s the only 2 modalities?
If we had China’s per capita emissions climate change wouldnt be the dire fucking disaster with a compressing timeline that it is. We could stand to degrow to where China’s at for fucks sake.
American freedom is owning every type of recreational vehicle and using each one for maybe 50 hours a year.
