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• Rather than being replaced by machines, handing over the busywork to them will free us up to focus on our uniquely human gifts — such as empathy and creativity — which right now are greatly underutilized.
• Its roots in economic theory go back at least to the 1960s when an MIT team led by Donella Meadows published The Limits of Growth. But the degrowth movement was properly born in the early 2000s, starting in France (under the original name décroissance).
• Kallis believes the green growth scenario to be implausible.
• At first, changing the infrastructure to renewables would come at a huge cost, dampening growth.
• And eventually, we would need more and more surface area covered with e.g., wind or solar farms.

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