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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Congratulations, degrowth, we're now at the penultimate stage 3, apparently. That sure went fast.
A fun little counter thread ... 1/ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/15/beware_the_lefts_degrowth_movement_142942.html
Congratulations, degrowth, we're now at the penultimate stage 3, apparently. That sure went fast.
A fun little counter thread ... 1/ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/15/beware_the_lefts_degrowth_movement_142942.html
First, as @MGSchmelzer already pointed out, @StephenMoore is not exactly a neutral actor out here.
https://twitter.com/MGSchmelzer/status/1251136396565323776
Apparently he's not only really good at bad economics favoring the rich, he's also *really* good at woman-hating. What. A. Dude. 2/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Moore
https://twitter.com/MGSchmelzer/status/1251136396565323776
Apparently he's not only really good at bad economics favoring the rich, he's also *really* good at woman-hating. What. A. Dude. 2/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Moore
This article has 1 statement defending growth: "First, economic freedom and growth go hand in hand and have inarguably positive benefits to the poorest citizens of the world and to health and the environment."
I know the sentence says "First" but there is no "second." Sad. 3/
I know the sentence says "First" but there is no "second." Sad. 3/
Shall we debunk together?
First (real first): growth does not benefit the poorest, 80+% of growth goes to the richest 1%, none to the poor. Not much freedom in poverty, is there. 4/
Sources:
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/reward-work-not-wealth https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/piketty-saez-zucman-income-growth-inequality-stagnation-chart
First (real first): growth does not benefit the poorest, 80+% of growth goes to the richest 1%, none to the poor. Not much freedom in poverty, is there. 4/
Sources:
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/reward-work-not-wealth https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/piketty-saez-zucman-income-growth-inequality-stagnation-chart
Second, has growth benefited health? No. Economic growth measured in internationally traded $ can account for LESS THAN ONE THIRD of the improvements in international life expectancy. Source? Me. 5/
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7461 https://twitter.com/jksteinberger/status/1243658919647555584
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7461 https://twitter.com/jksteinberger/status/1243658919647555584
Third, does growth benefit the environment? No. Nopety nope, absolutely not. Absolutely decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts is an illusion promoted by growth advocates like our friend Stephen. 6/
Sources:
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12713 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964
Sources:
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12713 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964
So growth advocates have 1 core argument, which easily demolished using empirical evidence in a short twitter thread. Cheers, growth fanatics. This is going super-duper well for you. How are you going to defend unequal, unhealthy and planet-killing profits now? End/
