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The pandemic proved that ‘degrowth’ doesn’t help the planet

Dan Hannan writes in The Washington Examiner that the pandemic proved that degrowth doesn’t help the planet.

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The C3 Take
  • Data shows that lockdowns from the pandemic only marginally reduced CO2 emissions.
  • In Kenya and Botswana the economic downturn from lockdowns led to increased poaching of animals such as giraffes and black rhinos.
  • Effective climate policy needs a rational cost-benefit analysis. A de-growth agenda that hurts prosperity while only marginally reducing emissions must be rejected.
  • In order to truly address climate change, we must embrace economic freedom and human flourishing.
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“Enough. We need to snap out of the environmentalists’ superstitious, ‘if it isn’t hurting, it isn’t working’ hair-shirtery. We should aim to get richer and greener at the same time. That’s the magic of the market.”

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