Your post has a classic tunnel vision error. Just focusing on CO2 emmissions. However there are other factors that degrowth is trying to fix... food waste, toxicity, inequality, poverty, water crisis, health, overconsumption, food security... you know I could continue. Also true that data centres can be powered by 100% renewable energy... but intangible assets do have a high carbon footprint associated with indirect emissions. Specially in the race for AI this will be a major contributor. In a sense I still do not get your point of why degrowth is not the answer... you are just arguing that there are other ways to grow the economy without killing the planet with little evidence on the specifics of why this is the case... anyway just a thought...
My article doesn't focus on CO2 emissions, it's focused on using the earth's resources. My work as a whole focuses a lot on how we can solve the other things on your list: food waste and security, wellbeing, and inequality and poverty (this post as an example of those last two). I just don't think a stagnating market is how we achieve that. You might be interested in the next two articles in this series for more specifics:
Degrowth is the answer!
I tend to disagree. https://www.elysian.press/p/we-dont-need-degrowth-for-the-environment
Your post has a classic tunnel vision error. Just focusing on CO2 emmissions. However there are other factors that degrowth is trying to fix... food waste, toxicity, inequality, poverty, water crisis, health, overconsumption, food security... you know I could continue. Also true that data centres can be powered by 100% renewable energy... but intangible assets do have a high carbon footprint associated with indirect emissions. Specially in the race for AI this will be a major contributor. In a sense I still do not get your point of why degrowth is not the answer... you are just arguing that there are other ways to grow the economy without killing the planet with little evidence on the specifics of why this is the case... anyway just a thought...
My article doesn't focus on CO2 emissions, it's focused on using the earth's resources. My work as a whole focuses a lot on how we can solve the other things on your list: food waste and security, wellbeing, and inequality and poverty (this post as an example of those last two). I just don't think a stagnating market is how we achieve that. You might be interested in the next two articles in this series for more specifics:
https://www.elysian.press/p/we-need-to-grow-the-economy-to-advance
https://www.elysian.press/p/the-ideal-economy-in-2100