The Four Horsemen of Post Growth Futures

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Every single one of these possible pathways would checkmark the financial bender break geopolitics potentially war, the complexity, and the social contract situations. Another possible pathway to a post growth future is what I'll label here a spite revolution. For instance, if people really understood our system and they cared about climate change we could do some sort of carbon hunger strike where 5% 8% 10% of the population stopped consuming. It would not take too long for that to prick the biophysical rubber band.

In Part 3 of this Frankly Series, Nate (just after watching the movie Oppenheimer!) breaks down the logic of how we COULD arrive at a post-growth future. Our global situation is complex and not static - IF we somehow are able to shrink the global economic output (which would imply significantly less oil use) we first have to navigate ‘the 4 Horsemen of the 2020s’. Nate outlines 10 possible avenues for how this could happen, not as a prescription but as a description of various possible scenarios. The implications of the complexity of our global systems means a path to a world without our current dependence on growth will not be an easy one. Yet understanding these hurdles between our current situation and an eventual post-growth future is essential to shifting the initial conditions of such a global transformation towards ‘better-than-the-default’ outcomes. How do impending and converging risks narrow our options for ways to move towards a different global system - and can we manage to protect the things that make life worth living?

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