To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower?

“But we don’t live in an ideal world; we live in a world where we’re going to be very lucky to make it through the next decades with a climate system more or less intact. We have no choice but to build renewable energy, and its attendant appliances, and to do it fast. But it would be a shame to waste the vast effort entailed simply trying to re-create our current society on a lower-carbon basis, because we’d soon run into the other barriers that the degrowth activists warn of, from too much nitrogen to too little solidarity. Instead of halting the build-out of green energy, it would be wise to use that enormous process, one of the biggest economic shifts in human history, to nudge our societies toward greater equality and greater conviviality.”

Lots of interesting things to think about and it made me think a lot about Small is Beautiful and how maybe we need to be thinking much smaller and more locally to do things better.