FantasticalEconomics

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[–] FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (46 children)

@jackofalltrades @jgkoomey @urlyman @ajsadauskas @green

Even if absolute decoupling is possible, we can no longer view it as a reasonable strategy. If we started in the 60's, sure, *maybe* we could have maintained a slow-growing economy while staying within Earth's biophysical constraints.

But we didn't.

We are now so far outside safe bounds (#overshoot) that the theoretical possibility of absolute decoupleing seems moot, at best. And perhaps a dangerous distraction.

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html