4°C of warming, if not more, is almost certainly already baked into the system thanks to higher climate sensitivity than the IPCC reports assume and also due to the effects of aerosol masking, which will cause warming to accelerate as industrial activity and population levels decline (as seen during the COVID lockdowns).
We still need to pursue degrowth strategies with urgency, because of resource depletion & pollution, and it will help reduce suffering, but let's not kid ourselves here.
Our species will be very lucky to avoid complete extinction in the next few hundred years and we will be hunter-gatherers again if we do survive in the long term. Degrowth will help us adjust to that fundamental inevitability.
Who needs to read a 70p paper, if you give us such a great summary! ;-)
The details of the how are in there.
4°C of warming, if not more, is almost certainly already baked into the system thanks to higher climate sensitivity than the IPCC reports assume and also due to the effects of aerosol masking, which will cause warming to accelerate as industrial activity and population levels decline (as seen during the COVID lockdowns).
We still need to pursue degrowth strategies with urgency, because of resource depletion & pollution, and it will help reduce suffering, but let's not kid ourselves here.
Our species will be very lucky to avoid complete extinction in the next few hundred years and we will be hunter-gatherers again if we do survive in the long term. Degrowth will help us adjust to that fundamental inevitability.
Good . if u make economics moral & ethical , that only serve people and planet . Degrowth is moral philosophy . thanks