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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival (archive.is)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by deforestgump@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

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“At the end of the day we’ll have to come to this kind of cooperative redistribution of resources and power because the alternative will simply lead to disastrous outcomes both on the environment, on the climate, but also on social grounds.”

If only we used all of that energy in figuring out how to kill each other, we used it to cooperate and make the world a better place. Necessity breeds innovation but only when there are enough resources to build.

"To achieve this, the authors envisage three steps: more than halving average working time from 2,100 hours a year to 1,000 hours, roughly equivalent to a two-and-a-half-day working week” timmy-pray

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

At first I was wondering why this was in c/slop, then I started reading the article.

"Electrification of transport" instead of slashing transport miles by 90% by just rebuilding everything close enough to bike across the city and take the train to other cities.

They expect to be able diminish food production to less than 6% of all human labor hours, while halving total labor altogether, and feed the world on that equivalent of 3% of today's workforce. I don't see how that gets done without continuing to do monocrops that are dependent on heavy machinery and massive fertilizer inputs.

Likewise, instead of re-orienting towards cradle-to-cradle manufacturing and instituting a major push for ecological construction, they just diminish these sectors to 1% and 2% of the economy respectively.

Never mind the labor-intensive modes used for thousands of years that didn't overshoot the planet's capacity, just largely continue most of the current trends with a tweak to widen up the two most intangible ones. We'll run the economy on intangibles, with the Power of Future.

Somehow everyone around the world is going to be making $60k a year, or $600T in global GDP, 8 times what it is today.

"Encouraging people to eat less red meat" still leaves the CAFO model intact and as-is. Literally just asking people nicely to stop supporting the destructive and miserable industry that they've been plugging into for a century.

Heavily-taxed billionaires are still billionaires that exist. 6% to 0.05% share is 1/120. $83M is still obscene wealth, and 1/120 of a Bezos or Musk or Zuckerberg is still a billionaire. The existence of billionaires is not compatible with equitable and habitable life on Earth.

Instead of approaching "sufficiency" starting with practical and material limits, or taking the sectors that currently exist and reimagining the details of them for carbon neutrality or low impact, they pretty clearly just compiled their database, made a variable for each profession, looked at the carbon emissions and GDP output fron each, and then just made a composition that optimized first carbon emissions and then GDP. To picture the reality of this proposal, imagine two people walking down a street taking turns eating factory-farmed cow dung- forever.

I'm surprised Jason Hickel endorsed this as serious.