A Different ‘Abundance Agenda’: Avoiding Delusions and Diversions | If there is to be a decent human future—perhaps if there is to be any human future—it will be fewer people consuming less energy and creating less stuff.

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1. Another stupid degrowth article.

   Humanity has consistently been doing more with less, which means for example more crops from less land, more energy from less resources and essentially decoupling humanity from natural limits.

   This train is stopping for no one, and all degrowth articles are simply mental masturbation, since everyone knows no one is going to practice in reality.

2. And here comes the attempted reputation repair of the neoliberals that got us here

   What a lame era lol

3. lmao nope if there is to be a decent future it wont be found with primitivist degrowther bullsht at that point we may as well just wipe ourselves out. no if there is a decent future we need to stop being cowards and start being ambitious again if we want a decent future we need to realise how badly we have been brainwashed and check our ideological blindspots. if we get over our childish and ecocidal atomophobia we can generate the energy required for mass desal and indoor ag so as to ensure water and food security in the changing climate. if we start funding the space program to build infrastructure on the Moon instead of a dumb vanity mission to Mars then we can build a sunshade to reduce solar influx and buy time to start scrubbing the atmosphere and hydrosphere. we have technological solutions we just need to stop being cheapass cowards.

   but nah its totally poverty and primitivism that will save us instead im just a dumb schizo for believing in the Great Common Task rather than Eternal Ecological Austerity lmfao.

   far-right French author Guillaume Faye wrote a book “Archeofuturism” describing how a convergence of catastrophes will result in billions of deaths followed by a regression to neofeudalism, only this time the ruling class will have advanced technology while the lower classes will be kept in a state of pre-industrial scarcity forever by the technological monopoly. no other book did as much to push me away from the right-wing, but this degrowth crap is doing just as good of a job pushing me away from the left-wing too cos i only see it leading to the exact same dystopia as the one Faye described.

   anyways i await your downvotes eagerly

4. Why are there no articles about the 0.01% consuming more than 99% of the people with their mega yachts and personal jets?

5. Correct aka the end of capitalism because it’s a Ponzi scheme that’s killing the human race.

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