The Saners, a new and very different climate (and civilization-changing) group doesn't preach de-growth, we do suggest ending the production of everything unessential—all the crap that's produced constantly and goes to landfill.
Is this degrowth? Degrowth nonsense?
In any case, policy should be CLIMATE POLICY directly, and perhaps can be seen as economic policy indirectly. Because human law is a choice, and Natural Law is immutable.
We need to stop fossil fuels quickly, we pissed away so many decades when our leaders choose instead to INCREASE their use, that we must END FOSSIL FUELS pretty damn abruptly.
Too quick? Unreasonable? Perhaps, but someone should have thought of that when the SCOTUS put a Texas oilman in the White House in 2000—overruling the majority of American voters.
That was probably our last chance to prevent climate collapse gradually. That's gone.
So, yeah, we produce less stuff, have less stuff, work a WHOLE LOT LESS, we GIVE people stuff without "earning" it by working for some elite a-holes who sit on their asses. You know what?
Even this rushed desperation approach doesn't look so bad. Consider it.
