A chara, – Mark Paul (“ Degrowth fetishists, just be honest: you would make people poorer to fight climate change ”, Business Opinion, August 16th) rightly points out that decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions is a delusion. He points out that economic contraction is the only way to make the economy fit the physical capacity of the planet, but he is against such a measure, as it leads to a fall in GDP. Mark Paul fails to point out that contraction is going to happen one way or another, since humans are exceeding the planet’s capacity to accommodate […]
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