[chanakya]

Whether or not degrowth can be made to work, what this guy is talking about is fantasy. For example:

...That creates some pressure on planetary boundaries. So that means that the Global North needs to consciously degrow because it is over-developing, and has excessive production and consumption.

This will not help. Emissions from the US and Europe now account of about 20% of global emissions and are going down. Emissions from the rest of the world are rising steeply.

[sapphicsnail]

> I think it’s [degrowth] in some sense utopian. But believing that capitalism will prosper in the decades to come is utopian too, because we will have more natural disasters, inflation, wars — and these will all accelerate with the climate crisis. So it’s naive to think that our way of life will somehow continue.

He admits several times that this isn't a concrete solution and that the global south will continue to grow but the point remains that we can't really continue what we're doing.

*Edited to mark the quote

[chanakya]

There were more wars and disasters before capitalism, not fewer. In recent times, both wars and fatal disasters have dropped drastically.

[thiagoharry]

Not sure about this, as the 2 World Wars in 20th century and colonialism were a great source of deaths and disasters. But anyway, even if this is true, the point is that climate crisis probably will change this score, provoking lot more disasters and wars in the future.

[cscurmudgeon]

He is a Marxist shilling his books. There is nothing intellectual or deep worth critiquing here more than what you have in your comment.