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  • KnitWit@lemmy.worldto2meirl4meirl@lemmy.world2meirl4meirl
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    25 days ago

    Me at 40: Hmm, looking back at the last 15 years of fisheries biology work, I can safely say that the net impact of that work was actually worse conditions for the planet than better. Well, at least I got to watch the head of my state agency give out ‘fish bumps’ to the other heads because we managed to increase the quota for the year! (I quit)


  • Right on, thanks for the input. That’s vaguely what I remember hearing about it years ago, which had me intrigued. Personally, I just don’t think I like the writing so far. But it seems to read fast so I guess I’ll probably keep going for now. Plenty of books I’ve felt this way about before at this point and been wrong, so we’ll see.







  • Ok article overall, although the title should probably be more like ‘Here is why we will never degrowth.’ Although this paragraph really got my hackles up:

    As a result, the first problem for the degrowthers is that voters in rich countries have experienced a form of degrowth since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and they don’t seem to like it all that much

    Being less well off because of corporate fuckery is not what degrowth is, if anything consumerism has massively increased even with less free income around.