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From this article in the Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-far-left-has-an-idiotic-new-craze-reduce-economic-growth
Enter Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics, a man on a crusade to end “the tyranny of GDP.”
In an interview for BBC’s Newsnight show on Thursday, Hickel called for “degrowth.” Ignoring energy innovation in fracking, nuclear power, renewables, and battery-based power systems, Hickel claimed that Earth is running out of resources. Rich nations are apparently to blame because we “use three times our fair share of bio-capacity.”
I somehow agree that GDP-tied development indexes are flawed but ‘bio-capacity’ sounds even less appealing.
Someone needs to ask this moron what is a “fair share of bio-capacity”?