Economic expansion relies on exploiting the planet and people, which results in excess pollution like emissions. This policy seeks to actively reduce the ecological impacts caused by industrial production and consumption.
Economic expansion relies on exploiting the planet and people, which results in excess pollution like emissions. This policy seeks to actively reduce the ecological impacts caused by industrial production and consumption.
Remember: Policy instruments are the means by which governments can achieve the degrowth goals/objectives we urgently need!
💡 Translation: We need strict, declining limits on resource use, pollution, and emissions.
📉 Set hard, progressively lower limits on fossil fuels, industrial materials, and pollutants that cannot be traded.
🏗 Prioritise resource-intensive sectors (steel, cement, petrochemicals, automotive) for reductions.
🌍 Propose global democratic cap-and-share or mandatory 40-50% footprint reductions in overshooting nations.
🤑 Reduce ecological impacts in the richest places in the world by 75–90%
💡 Translation: Tax what destroys, incentivise what sustains.
💰 Higher taxes on resource and energy use, as well as pollution and emissions.
🏦 Divest from fossil fuels, mining, and arms industries.
🌱 Redirect financial flows toward ecological and socially just initiatives.
💡 Translation: Pause new destruction to protect what remains.
⛏ Bans on new and existing mining, deforestation, and fossil fuel extraction.
🚫 Halt large-scale projects that threaten ecosystems (e.g., highways, dams).
🌍 Shift toward regenerative land use rather than continuous expansion.
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