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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The idea is that no matter what you’re growing, you’re increasing the rate of extraction, which has negative consequences for the land and frontline workers.
A “degrowth economist” would say that if you want more housing you should take it out of the resources we currently use to make highways and military hardware.
