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One problem is that economic growth has a big correlation with carbon emissions. https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ Environmental decoupling is the notion that we can hav…

"Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich." —Richard Falk, “Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances,” Al Jazeera, 22 Feb. 2011

Didn't said that we can substitute industrial ammonia but it could definitely reduce it's use. Changing the way we eat it's definitely an opportunity to reduce major sources of c02…

We could avoid this number by investing in soil preservation, nitrogen fixing plants, reduce meat consumption, even in concepts like humanure.

There are ethical ways to implement it for instance give more education to women [1]. Consuming less meat should be a priority for us wealthy countries. Overpopulation is a problem…

The story of Fritz Haber first wife is very sad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Immerwahr

>It’s a common fallacy of tech people to think that all problems are of a technical nature, and that if we could just have the right technology they would go away and we would be l…

Urea comes from the Harber process [1] Basically most of food fertilizer depends on fossil fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

In Portugal is "Sociedade do Cansaço" which translates to "fatigue society"

I agree although I would add that many of the creative jobs although technically challenging have useless or even destructive goals. Just look at the attention economy and the surv…

Also we could redistribute the tax as a sort of UBI. This way not only product that pollute would be more expensive, people would have the ability to say no to crappy jobs.

Yes, the author focuses on a possible shortage of resources as the cause of the problem, but the Forester effect certainly played a decisive role in the case of the chip shortage. …

Is on this kind of measures where jevons paradox or the rebound effect kicks in. We will inclined to eat more meat because is more sustainable, and with that we neutralize the gain…

I loved the "good parts” of JS back in 2010. I think I don't need most of this new syntax and yet sometimes have the feeling I'm losing the train when I see this “C#” code base. Cu…

If you want to explore this you can watch "the century of self" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

As Ursula Le Guin, I'm not an economist, but I live in one. Didn't mean to be literal, but I find ironic the use of the term, because it reminds me of rough which in portuguese, my…

I don't think everyone agrees that growth is a problem. Is the way our societies are organized and it is very difficult to reason against it. Another aspect that western societies …

There is a difference between wants and needs. You have a giant industry trying to change your wants, making sure you are not satisfied with what you have.

Gross Domestic Product, is a very gross way to measure progress as the name implies. Robert Kennedy said in respect of GDP “It measures everything, in short, except that which make…

This would be true if we didn't account for the extreme inequality of the system. For instance the richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity …

Yes, by any measure - infant mortality, safety from war, education, access to culture, etc - we have never been better but all evidence suggests that our lifestyles are not sustain…

Again I don’t want to romanticize the pandemic but we should critically analyze what happened. When I talk about the system changes, I’m referring to the paper that I wrote in the …

It’s really interesting to think about what caused last year's systemic change. I think that was the fact that the illness threatened our life directly, but most of all the consequ…