{"id":254818,"date":"2023-04-27T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254818"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:47:40","slug":"degrowth-this-is-socialist-central-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254818","title":{"rendered":"Degrowth: This is socialist central planning."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"403\" data-attachment-id=\"254923\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=254923\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?fit=1536%2C857&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,857\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Adela Aguero Trejos&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1614518584&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0decoding-davos-1536&amp;#215;857-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?fit=723%2C403&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?resize=723%2C403&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C571&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?resize=768%2C429&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C670&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0decoding-davos-1536x857-1.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/degrowth-the-new-fad-in-the-climate-change-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Spectator<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/author\/markwhendrickson\/\">MARK W. HENDRICKSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"254921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=254921\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?fit=1450%2C966&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1450,966\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?resize=1200%2C799&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?w=1450&amp;ssl=1 1450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last December, the journal&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>&nbsp;published an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-04412-x\">article<\/a>&nbsp;titled \u201cDegrowth can work \u2014 here\u2019s how science can help.\u201d The body of the article is overflowing with earnest assertions that don\u2019t hold up to even cursory scrutiny. Indeed, the fatuity of many of its statements is reminiscent of idealistic youth who envision a better world and believe that all they have to do to achieve it is make everybody do A, B, and C, and \u2014 voil\u00e0! \u2014 problem fixed. Alas, the real world isn\u2019t so easily controllable, nor does central planning have a track record that inspires confidence. Yes, I\u2019m talking about socialist central planning here. That is what degrowth is all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central policy prescription in the article is that \u201cWealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being.\u201d Whew! Apart from trying to square the circle whereby negative growth will secure human well-being (something they believe can happen, and they even have a footnote to \u201cprove it\u201d), a major question is: Who will choose and implement the reforms? \u201cWealthy economies\u201d are a collective abstraction. In real life, certain human beings make decisions and set policies. Certain individuals \u2014 you can refer to them by the shorthand term \u201can elite\u201d \u2014 will have to decide which forms of production are \u201cunnecessary.\u201d Clearly, the planners don\u2019t want consumers \u2014 folks like you and me \u2014 making those choices. Better to leave that to their \u201cexpert\u201d hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the authors proceed, they explain that negative growth is not their goal for everybody, but just for the more prosperous societies. Curbing growth in wealthier countries \u201cfrees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries.\u201d Ah, now it\u2019s clear: the degrowth agenda calls for a global shift in relative standards of living whereby the prosperous surrender some of their prosperity as a means of allowing poorer countries to catch up. (No wonder the degrowth agenda is popular with the Fraternity of Global Wealth Redistribution, commonly known as \u201cthe United Nations\u201d!) The degrowth folks are still under the thrall of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markhendrickson\/2015\/09\/04\/the-pernicious-16th-century-fallacy-that-suffuses-contemporary-progressivism\/\">Montaigne dogma<\/a>&nbsp;that life is a zero-sum game \u2014 thinking that is several centuries out of date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The desire for central planning is plain: \u201cDegrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic.\u201d Again, who determines the goals for an entire society? And we need to be alert that when central planners talk about \u201cstabilizing economies,\u201d they are talking about controlling them, which ossifies and stagnates them. Planners hate what they see as the \u201cchaos\u201d of free markets \u2014 the dynamic, creative destruction of capitalism that sweeps away value destroyers (a necessary corrective process that goes by the name of \u201crecession\u201d) and gives rise to value creators and fresh economic growth. This process of constant renewal enriches a society through an ever-evolving spontaneous order that no human being can plan or manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you were wondering, the degrowth crowd itself wants to dictate what is \u201cless-necessary production.\u201d They generously inform us that they want us to scale back fossil fuels (naturally) \u2014 but also \u201cmass-produced meat and dairy, fast fashion, advertising, cars and aviation, including private jets.\u201d Oh, yes, and don\u2019t forget that we need to \u201creduce the purchasing power of the rich.\u201d (Why don\u2019t you just say \u201cconfiscate the bulk of their wealth via taxation\u201d?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But take comfort, friends \u2014&nbsp;it won\u2019t all be belt-tightening and deprivation. The degrowth crowd calls for \u201cimprov[ing] public services.\u201d Yep, they plan to \u201censure universal access to high-quality health care, education, housing, transportation, Internet, renewable energy and nutritious food.\u201d Wow, less growth and more abundance! We can have our cake and eat it, too. Sign me up! (Not!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, wait, there are even more benefits in their imagined cornucopia. There is also \u201ca green jobs guarantee\u201d and \u201ca universal income policy.\u201d And all is to be financed through slower economic growth. What a vision! And they want to \u201creduce working time,\u201d too. Well, I\u2019ve got to agree that reducing the amount of human labor will certainly slow economic growth, so I commend the writers for that concession to economic reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authors list five challenges that must be addressed while \u201cimplementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth \u2014 in a safe and just way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust\u201d? Yes, our degrowth friends are social justice warriors, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the five challenges they cite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, they see a need to impose an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/esg-is-evil\/\">ESG<\/a>&nbsp;mandate that would strip away the current moral and legal obligation of private companies to generate profits for their shareholders. \u201cSocial and environmental benefits\u201d must be prioritized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new approach to business would \u201crequire new macro-economic models.\u201d Please excuse my skepticism, but macroeconomic models share the same defects as global warming models \u2014 none of them describe the world as it really works. Instead, they repeatedly illustrate the digital truism \u201cgarbage in, garbage out.\u201d (Maybe they are counting on ChatGPT to lead us all to the Promised Land of less growth and more prosperity.) You can see the recurring theme of government control resurface here because the writers call for \u201ctighter border control of capital movements.\u201d (Hmmm, I wonder if Joe Biden would have more enthusiasm for controlling flows of capital rather than immigrants across American borders.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, the authors write that \u201cNew forms of financing will be needed to fund public services without growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNew forms of financing\u201d? That sounds promising. Hopefully that means no more government borrowing (debt) and no more inflation. Alas, not so. In fact, they explicitly endorse inflation when they write, \u201cGovernments that issue their own currency can use this power to finance social and ecological objectives.\u201d Yep, just print more money and watch prosperity shrink, just like it has the last couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Primarily, though, the degrowth plan involves more of old forms of financing \u2014 mostly taxes, such as taxes on air travel and meat production as well as new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithandfreedom.com\/the-biden-administrations-cynical-and-unconstitutional-proposed-tax-on-wealth\/\">wealth taxes<\/a>.\u201d Not very original! But I wish they would explain what they mean by recommending \u201cshared and collaborative consumption.\u201d I already share consumption with family and friends, and I suspect you do, too, so are we going to be lumped together with strangers now? By what means do these planners want to \u201cencourage\u201d such new patterns of consumption?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third, degrowth calls for intense management of \u201cworking-time reductions.\u201d I\u2019ll spare you the details here, but they are complex \u2014 enough, probably, to require several hundred thousand additional bureaucrats in the Swamp. The desire for degrowth to get people to work less is, however, not completely unqualified. The planners are worried that while \u201cless commuting lowers energy use and carbon emissions,\u201d there is a risk that \u201cmore travel or shopping during free time could increase emissions.\u201d Yep, we need to beware of how Americans might choose to use their free time. The writers are tacitly conceding that Americans might not be particularly gung-ho about cutting back on either their freedom of movement or their consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fourth, the degrowth people want to \u201creshape provisioning systems.\u201d They say we need \u201cresearchers\u201d \u2014 more academic \u201cexperts\u201d \u2014 to study the \u201cprovisioning systems for housing, transportation, communication, health care, education and food.\u201d In tiresome \u201csocial justice\u201d terms, they complain, \u201cAffluent economies use more than their fair share of resources.\u201d Pardon me, but every society is equally free to consume in accordance with how much wealth they can produce (Say\u2019s Law) and borrow (the contemporary runaway \u201cconsume now, pay later\u201d fool\u2019s game). It isn\u2019t the rich countries\u2019 fault that the poorer countries have pursued unwise economic policies that curtailed their growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifth, there is the ever-present challenge to any new public policy proposal: \u201cpolitical feasibility and opposition.\u201d Will a majority of voters embrace imposed negative growth? No, not if it is couched in those terms. Most voters are frequently deluded, but most of them aren\u2019t outright stupid. So far, according to the authors, \u201cpolitical parties that have put forward degrowth ideas have received limited support in elections.\u201d If they want to achieve greater electoral success, those advocating degrowth need to downplay the degrowth message and play up the promise of more freebies. That is how you seduce a democratic majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authors are concerned about opposition from supporters of \u201celite interests\u201d such as corporations, think tanks, and political parties. I find it interesting that they could write that without apparent irony, for it is difficult to imagine a more elitist cabal than the green socialists who aspire to transform and manage national economies and the global international order according to their own fantastic plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authors also lament that they will have an uphill battle in convincing thinkers \u201crooted in mainstream neoclassical economics,\u201d implying that they are backward-looking \u2014 even though neoclassical economics, which originated in the 1870s, is younger by more than a couple hundred years than the Montaigne dogma that the degrowth advocates cling to. They are also concerned about how to achieve their elitist agenda. They write that the degrowth movement \u201cwill require a massive mobilization of researchers in all disciplines\u201d and \u201cmore funding.\u201d Let\u2019s hope that the Republican House doesn\u2019t bankroll the degrowth plans to replace what is left of our free enterprise system with socialist central planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brace yourselves, folks. You may be hearing a lot more about \u201cdegrowth\u201d in the months ahead. Yes, the degrowth agenda is economically irrational, theoretically inconsistent, and plainly absurd, but since when have such \u201cdetails\u201d kept the Left from embracing destructive policies in recent years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fspectator.org%2Fdegrowth-the-new-fad-in-the-climate-change-movement%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1iMK57eRVpyAAPWE3nN2Dl5nmLPisPgbfyAGRPT64IKVPfXfK2ffSks8s\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Degrowth%3A%20The%20New%20Fad%20in%20the%20Climate%20Change%20Movement&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectator.org%2Fdegrowth-the-new-fad-in-the-climate-change-movement%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1iMK57eRVpyAAPWE3nN2Dl5nmLPisPgbfyAGRPT64IKVPfXfK2ffSks8s\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/share\/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectator.org%2Fdegrowth-the-new-fad-in-the-climate-change-movement%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1iMK57eRVpyAAPWE3nN2Dl5nmLPisPgbfyAGRPT64IKVPfXfK2ffSks8s&amp;text=Degrowth%3A%20The%20New%20Fad%20in%20the%20Climate%20Change%20Movement\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/degrowth-the-new-fad-in-the-climate-change-movement\/?fbclid=IwAR1iMK57eRVpyAAPWE3nN2Dl5nmLPisPgbfyAGRPT64IKVPfXfK2ffSks8s\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/degrowth-the-new-fad-in-the-climate-change-movement\/?fbclid=IwAR1iMK57eRVpyAAPWE3nN2Dl5nmLPisPgbfyAGRPT64IKVPfXfK2ffSks8s\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, the journal\u00a0Nature\u00a0published an\u00a0article\u00a0titled \u201cDegrowth can work \u2014 here\u2019s how science can help.\u201d The body of the article is overflowing with earnest assertions that don\u2019t hold up to even cursory scrutiny. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":254921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818643],"class_list":{"0":"post-254818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-degrowth","10":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0f44098b808a328e1b6a1b2741d936e2b.jpg?fit=1450%2C966&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14hY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":341617,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=341617","url_meta":{"origin":254818,"position":0},"title":"Degrowth: The Final Solution","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Degrowth is the final solution against modernity. It is an anti-human philosophy of stagnation and decline based on the belief that there are too many people. Remember Paul Ehrlich?","rel":"","context":"In \"anti-human philosophy\"","block_context":{"text":"anti-human philosophy","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=anti-human-philosophy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-86.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-86.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-86.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-86.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-86.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":334804,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=334804","url_meta":{"origin":254818,"position":1},"title":"Wash Post Editorial Board denounces \u2018de-growth communism\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Ending growth won\u2019t save the planet\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/27\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Climate Depot founder Marc Morano at least credited The Atlantic for saying \u201cthe quiet part out loud\u201d in comments to MRC Business. \u201cNet zero in the climate agenda is really nothing short of Soviet-style central planning. 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