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Jason Hickel Dec 12, 2022

I'm happy to announce we have this new article in Nature, discussing policies and challenges for a just transition. "Degrowth can work - here's how science can help": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.

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anlomedad Dec 16, 2022

@jasonhickel I'm wondering why you guys "never" cite hard boundaries of raw material & #mining in introduction to papers. Eg., Watari 2020 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.0c02471#
or Watari 2020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919305750

or Bringezu 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/8/3/140/htm

These hard boundaries together with time/CO2 budget explain the inevitability of #Degrowth.

Are you assuming everyone knows it and a mention of these very real physical constraints and hard project deadlines doesn't add weight to our cause?

Mention of the constraints in the introduction to your new publication would had saved us a lot of comments like "whoa, they want to degrow construction sector and steel?!! Are they mad?!"

People don't know that there are material limits on a finite planet or that the time constraint from CO2 budget forbids the attitude of "It'll be okay if enough metals r available in 2055. Until then, we'll just wait and do BAU."

#Degrowth #Postgrowth #PlanetaryBoundaries #MaterialUse