Thanks Johan, thought-provoking read. I should probably go and look on Litnet but if you are up for answering a quick question, what would the Afrikaans word be for degrowth?
Teengroei is al gebruik, maar ek en my taalversorger het op die uiteinde besluit op kwyngroei. Kwyngroei werk vir my beter omdat die teorie ook negatiewe ekonomiese groei ondersteun en nie net teen groei gekant is nie.
This is Wealth NIMBY (Not in my back yard). Wealthy reserchers and writers believe they can persuade the have-nots to forgo the bought privileges and goodies that they consume to protect their own consumption of those self same privelages and goodies
At risk of over-simplifying, "degrowth" just feels like the latest label for those who see the world in fixed, even zero-sum, terms. (Or perhaps Monopoly vs Catan as you might say).
As always, our problems are more likely to be solved by creating more, not less.
The same is true for climate. Energy is prosperity. Humanity puts it to work to solve our problems.
Yes, the way we generate it right now causes issues. But luckily we already know how to generate it in ways that don't create those problems. The more of that we build, the better we get at it, the more costs come down, and eventually it'll become economically unthinkable to do anything else.
PJ O'Rourke skryf in een van sy boeke - ek wil sê dis Don't Vote It Just Encourages The Bastards - dat dis eintlik irrelevant wat hierdie no growth beweging soek nie. Die massas in Indië en China en elders soek ook wi-fi en yskaste en karre en iPhones. You can't stop it, try as you might.
Ek dink wat my die meeste omkrap van sulke papers, egter, is die neerpraat, soos jy ook tereg uitwys.
Thanks Johan, thought-provoking read. I should probably go and look on Litnet but if you are up for answering a quick question, what would the Afrikaans word be for degrowth?
Teengroei is al gebruik, maar ek en my taalversorger het op die uiteinde besluit op kwyngroei. Kwyngroei werk vir my beter omdat die teorie ook negatiewe ekonomiese groei ondersteun en nie net teen groei gekant is nie.
Ja, dis ‘n uitstekende term daarvoor.
This is Wealth NIMBY (Not in my back yard). Wealthy reserchers and writers believe they can persuade the have-nots to forgo the bought privileges and goodies that they consume to protect their own consumption of those self same privelages and goodies
At risk of over-simplifying, "degrowth" just feels like the latest label for those who see the world in fixed, even zero-sum, terms. (Or perhaps Monopoly vs Catan as you might say).
As always, our problems are more likely to be solved by creating more, not less.
The same is true for climate. Energy is prosperity. Humanity puts it to work to solve our problems.
Yes, the way we generate it right now causes issues. But luckily we already know how to generate it in ways that don't create those problems. The more of that we build, the better we get at it, the more costs come down, and eventually it'll become economically unthinkable to do anything else.
There's a name for that, and it is "growth"
Degrowth movement sounds like a fancy way of saying ecosocialism
PJ O'Rourke skryf in een van sy boeke - ek wil sê dis Don't Vote It Just Encourages The Bastards - dat dis eintlik irrelevant wat hierdie no growth beweging soek nie. Die massas in Indië en China en elders soek ook wi-fi en yskaste en karre en iPhones. You can't stop it, try as you might.
Ek dink wat my die meeste omkrap van sulke papers, egter, is die neerpraat, soos jy ook tereg uitwys.
Ek dink dit was die neerpraat wat my oortuig het om daaroor te skryf. Dit was net te erg.