{"id":63988,"date":"2022-11-01T07:38:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63988"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:38:49","slug":"overnight-degrowth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63988","title":{"rendered":"Overnight Degrowth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overnight Degrowth<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The Degrowth movement is\u00a0gaining momentum<\/a>. You\u2019ve probably read\u00a0articles<\/a>\u00a0about it and thought \u201cYeah, that makes sense, but it\u2019ll never happen\u201d. And today, you\u2019d be right. Any government that tried to introduce it would soon become like the\u00a0parrot<\/a>, an ex-government.<\/p>\n

However, we all know that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Perhaps you\u2019ve read one of the reports showing that environmental damage\u00a0can’t be decoupled<\/a>\u00a0from GDP.\u00a0COP26<\/a>\u00a0showed there is no time to wait for a large number of countries to agree on meaningful action.<\/p>\n

So, imagine that you and your social media buddies launch a campaign, and Degrowth becomes a household word, understood by many, and one brave government (my money\u2019s on the Kiwis) decides to take the plunge. They secretly make preparations then introduce it \u2013 overnight.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re eating your muesli and your normal radio programme is interrupted with: \u201cWe now cross to the capital where the prime minister is about to make an important announcement\u201d.<\/p>\n

But first, a word of warning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some people might find the speech confronting. Scaring people is not my aim; rather, it is to present a scenario that could actually happen quickly enough to avoid catastrophic environmental and social collapse.<\/p>\n

Facing reality is difficult. Ignoring the problems, or believing in myths like tech-will-save-us, is so much easier. And then there are those who are happy to just blame capitalism; but simply wishing it away won\u2019t work. Or those who say we are doomed so why bother. Perhaps we are but we owe it to our kids not to give up.<\/p>\n

The speech begins:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The time for pretending is over.<\/p>\n

The governor-general has signed a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.<\/p>\n

The stock market will not open this morning, and will remain closed for one week while investors come to terms with what you are about to hear.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overnight Degrowth The Degrowth movement is\u00a0gaining momentum. You\u2019ve probably read\u00a0articles\u00a0about it and thought \u201cYeah, that makes sense, but it\u2019ll never happen\u201d. And today, you\u2019d be right. Any government that tried to introduce it would soon become like the\u00a0parrot, an ex-government. However, we all know that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Perhaps you\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[141,203,391,33319,33318,769],"class_list":["post-63988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-degrowth","tag-growth","tag-illuninem","tag-kirk-hall","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63989,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63988\/revisions\/63989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}