The Post Growth Future

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We have lived beyond our means for at least 50 years. There is a road closed sign ahead of us in the not too distant future. I think we have to be realistic about what would actually bring about significantly lower co two missions, and or a post growth economy. And it's not an easy thing. It will take a incredibly paradigmatic shift in our society. In part four of this longish video series next week or maybe two weeks from now because I want to go visit my family. I will have a layout some suggestions for that trajectory.

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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For Show Notes and More: For Show Notes and more: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/40-just-stop-oil-part-3-10-pathways-to-post-growth