It apparently takes 6 tons of “stuff” (material resources) per person per year to not be poor.
This throws cold water on both Degrowth (what about all the people who have access to less than this threshold? Redistribution won’t protect us all) and Growth (where will all the stuff we need come from? We’re running into ecological limits all over the place!) doctrines.
But there’s an alternative: actual progress, real growth (not the nominal GDP kind!) that allows us to do more for more with less.
What are your thoughts?
On the research?
On the unsustainability of (nominal) Growth & (real) Degrowth doctrines?
How can we flip the narrative to real growth for those who need it and nominal Degrowth for those who use accounting for physical problems?
Read more :
6 tons : https://www.science.org/content/article/how-much-stuff-does-it-take-not-be-poor-about-6-tons-year
How much junk in your trunk? https://www.boredpanda.com/7-days-of-garbage-trash-pollution-photography-gregg-segal/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
6 tons of survival