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Degrowth with Matthias Schmelzer

Inevitable

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Do You Believe That We Should Stop Burning Fossil Fuels

What we need is a fossil fuel non proliferation treaty, in international agreement to not further invest in the expansion of fossil fulds. That's the first step. And then we need a globaly binding agreement to cut down progressively the use of fossil fuels - which means that the rich countries need to reduce faster than the poor countries. Basically, this means for countries in europe to scale down fossil fuels by the year two thousand 30, at the latest. This doesn't mean next year, but it means next year, ten % less and then going down from this. It's a steep decline, much steeper than what we've seen as happening in the last years.

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