a thing that's coming back to me is that if the climate change situation gets into some of the worst case scenarios, energy abundance might be a matter of life and death and the degrowth paradigma preemptively signs off the advantage.. and i don't think i have heard anyone even mention this
Sylví✨
One of my more conspiracist opinions is that desiring alternatives to degrowth to be unthinkable was part of the driving force for/tolerating closing nuclear power plants even before coal ones and that this did enormous damage to public perception of fighting climate change.
Sylví✨
More people in Europe die of heat than Americans die of gunshot wounds. This isn't to excuse American gun culture.
However, this underscores how much the "AC is just a needless power-sucking luxury" mentality is killing a lot of people.
