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Rather than award credits based on economic development that moves us ... from an imagined dirty path toward a marginally cleaner, but still very dirty future, why not award credits to legal and political actions that have a more dramatic effect?
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
The Panel accepted the logic in principle: ‘overshoot scenarios entail less mitigation today in exchange for greater reductions later.’57 BECCS would provide redress. It was by these means 2°C came to look officially palatable and the stage was set from the northern side for the next act: Paris.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
The familiar conception, the Galbraithean way, makes assumptions peculiarly appropriate to market economies: that man’s wants are great, not to say infinite, whereas his means are limited, although improvable: thus, the gap between means and ends can be narrowed by industrial productivity, at least to the point that “urgent goods” become plentiful. But __there is also a Zen road to affluence, departing from premises somewhat different from our own: that human material wants are finite and few, and technical means unchanging but on the whole adequate. Adopting the Zen strategy, a people can enjoy an unparalleled material plenty—with a low standard of living.__
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
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