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When the herd eat grass it stimulates grass growth and grass is a huge carbon sink. there is a cool ted talk about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

You have the example of the United States which has economic growth but has recently seen its average life expectancy fall. Many other countries have less GPD per capita but higher…

The title should say economic growth and not prosperity. You can have prosperity in a system whose objective is not infinite growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPUogXUkr7I

If the objective of the system is to produce stuff you need to think in large scale. When we do that we favor big corporations and as you say business around you shut down. So chan…

Whenever I talk about this I am downvoted too. I follow hacker news for the rationality in the comments but on this subject it is rare to exchange good arguments.

This proves that we need a system change. Covid made that, we change from a system with the objective of producing stuff to a system with the goal of saving lives. People of HN sho…

The aim of the economy before the covid is to produce things and this production is no longer synonymous with increased comfort. For example, Spain has many more houses than famili…

I advice everyone interested in ecology to learn about the Club of Rome and the Limits of Growth. This is the true inconvenient truth specially for people in businesses that treat …

This reminds me moves in the fast fashion business were you can dispose your clothes and receive vouchers. The consumer feels good because he is caring for the environment and the …

I agree with you, but I will mention that Netflix is a paid service but nevertheless it uses similar strategies to keep us hooked.

It is strange to see the concepts like "regeneration" and "mining" in the same sentence

I encourage you to look at the work of Vaclav Smil [1] . There's no such thing as clean energy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4

Not only programmers, many of us tend to look at progress as an end in itself. Progress is the process of measuring if we achieve the objectives, it can not be the objective. Many …