2023-05-11 18:42:09
“When people see the title of my book, they breathe a sigh of relief: ‘Phew we are saved!’ but my book is not at all reassuring” s’insurge Antoine Buéno who continues: “It is to a certain extent, but without excluding solutions. Techno-solutionism will not be enough, but it has its role to play. For agriculture, the solution is to switch to agroecology, which is much less intensive in water and chemical inputs. Two problems appear: the yield and the wage cost which can be solved by technological support: robots, AI, GMOs”.
According to Antoine Bueno, diploma from the Graduate School of Economics and Commercial Sciences (ESSEC), from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, iIt is not a question of growth or decline but of sustainable growth. “The collapsologists say that the collapse is inevitable while the transhumanists say the opposite with a speech such as the market and technology will get us out of all impasses. Me, like others, I’m in the middle of the ford with ‘collapse is possible, not inevitable’ and this category is divided into two groups: the decrementers and those who are favorable to sustainable growth of which I am a part.
According to the author, degrowth, that is to say producing less goods and services each year, is a scam: nobody wants it, no country wants it and if a degrowth movement were to take place, it has to be done on a global scale. It would then be necessary to set up a dictatorship which would lead to generalized impoverishment. We are in a revolutionary scenario of the Soviet Union type, without productivist growth.
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