> We also know that growth and free markets help those who have access to it get out of poverty and much more prosperity.
Growth and free markets are what is driving overconsumption
Growth and free markets are what is driving overconsumption
If you think that living 200 years ago was a better life for most people just because they had more nature and couldn't consume as much I think you would be mistaken.
You can't have your cake and eat it.
Growth and prosperity comes with its own problems and challenges but I take those any day over an antigrowth philosophy.
'Growth' as you are defining it, is unsustainable. Do you you know what 'unsustainable' means? It means it must stop. Not 'has to', 'would be nice to' but 'must'. It has a hard physical thermodynamic ceiling. Your philosophy has no future.
Second of all my philosophy of using technology to solve the problems that nature presents to us has no future? I am not sure what you are doing here using a computer then or why you are wasting time and energy on a website debating with strangers.