The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy?
Im of the mind we shouldn’t rebuild Galveston, New Orleans etc because we will only need to rebuild them again. It might be more like the bottom two thirds of the USA that become difficult to inhabit depending on temperature changes and sea level rise.
Ideally we would be preparing most of the north, especially the states with large spaces and water sources to take on the tens to
hundreds of millions of immigrants that will be heading that way over the decades.
I feel that, it will be interesting to see how the global climate refugee crisis will go when western countries like the US start having millions of migrants internally as well as externally. I think it’s going to be crazy, so much of the west is already bigoted against refugees overall, will they turn that inward and create a class of undesirables who live in shanty towns? Will the state step up and spend the billions of dollars it requires to properly create places for all these people? It’s gonna be a crazy few decades.
I think this is why some are pushing fascism. They see the wave of immigrants coming and rather than prepare their society to adapt they seek to exclude with a police state.
Im of the mind we shouldn’t rebuild Galveston, New Orleans etc because we will only need to rebuild them again. It might be more like the bottom two thirds of the USA that become difficult to inhabit depending on temperature changes and sea level rise.
Ideally we would be preparing most of the north, especially the states with large spaces and water sources to take on the tens to hundreds of millions of immigrants that will be heading that way over the decades.
I feel that, it will be interesting to see how the global climate refugee crisis will go when western countries like the US start having millions of migrants internally as well as externally. I think it’s going to be crazy, so much of the west is already bigoted against refugees overall, will they turn that inward and create a class of undesirables who live in shanty towns? Will the state step up and spend the billions of dollars it requires to properly create places for all these people? It’s gonna be a crazy few decades.
I think this is why some are pushing fascism. They see the wave of immigrants coming and rather than prepare their society to adapt they seek to exclude with a police state.