• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I remember an urban planner and climate scientist/communicator discussing the changes that need to be made. He pointed out in his research and the book he published based on it, that it’s cheaper for governments to do climate friendly change than it is to maintain the status quo regardless of climate disasters. He says that yea it’s degrowth, but it needs to be framed as efficiency to get interest

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      6 months ago

      Do you remember the name of the book?

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        6 months ago

        It was called Project Drawdown. The statements about degrowth are just author comments about the research, and didn’t get discussed in the study