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Worrying about unsustainable growth is the selfish tantrum of rich spoilt brats | 55 comments (52 topical, 3 editorial, 0 hidden)
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He attacks a small group called the Degrowth Party, and also names the well-known figures José Bové, Yves Cochet (Green deputy), Nicolas Hulot (TV ecologist), and Hubert Reeves (French-Canadian astro-physicist and science popularizer).

He appears to accept the notion of environmental disaster, but not that humanity is stupid enough to run smack into it. We shall, of course, invent ways out. So he doesn't accept the idea of finite resources. Free lunch tomorrow.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 at 08:51:50 AM EST
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So he doesn't accept the idea of finite resources.

Which is why he's an economics editor and not an economist.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 at 09:00:49 AM EST
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The author doesn't even get his basic facts right, he claims here that the degrowth party was born in April 2006, but this is untrue as I already wrote a diary on it in November 2005. Well, actually, it's not totally untrue either, as the charter & bureau was finalised in April, but the party was born before that!

ps: this is a fine example of a Convuluted Ego Self-Flattering by Commander Alex in Toulouse

by Alex in Toulouse on Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 at 09:09:26 AM EST
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The funny thing is that he writes that we'll solve the environmental disaster but that his whole story only makes sense if you refuse the idea that current growth is causing the disaster in the first place....

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 at 09:14:19 AM EST
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I expect he would say growth is not to blame, but industrial activity that is in need of appropriate adjustment...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 at 10:05:37 AM EST
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Worrying about unsustainable growth is the selfish tantrum of rich spoilt brats | 55 comments (52 topical, 3 editorial, 0 hidden)
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