Post #2864652
2026-05-25 15:59 UTC
Sorry to necro this a little bit. I’m curious how this view deals with waste heat.
Right now, with the current waste heat our cumalitive technology usage as it stands today, without factoring in global climate change, wool be enough to boil the oceans in 200 years or so.
Given that, it seems likely that any progress that is required to not have us suffer an ecological based Apocalypse would necessarily require degrowth, right
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-05-26 11:25
Energy can be made more efficiently with less waste being given off as heat, and renewable sources can generate less heat and even have a cooling effect on the Earth in some cases. “Degrowth” as a movement is different from cutting largely unnecessary production, like fast fashion, it implies focusing on small scale production with presently capable methods, even if developing technology and using larger scale production can be more green.