Timothée Parrique: "Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Energy and GDP D Coupling
i'm just asking you the feasibility, just from a biophysical perspective, of energy and g d p d coupling. I know from prior data that global the correlation, historically, has been around point nine, nine three. The challenge is, though, that we're not optimizing for ecosystem health and reducing the impact of overshoot. We're optimizing for the energy metabolism that grows our financial economy which is tethered to an energy economy. i think you cannot get away from the fact that any single human activity, more or less directly relies on he energy.
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