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The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less: The degrowth movement wants to shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. (www.vice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How about we do two things

Like how about we work less and we immediately and totally nationalize energy and agriculture haha just a thought haha (fireflies are going extinct haha)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Way ahead of you, energy has already been nationalized here for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Multiple Canadian provinces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's cool. Do they ignore climate change in their energy calculations? Because if they are nationalized and choose to burn Shale Oil for energy, then they are kind of missing the point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's all renewable here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

nationalize ... agriculture

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