The World Needs A Recession. Forever

GDP is a dead end. We’ve got to go back and start over

You can only delay the reckoning. The fossil fuel era is running out for everyone. Fuel queues in Sri Lanka, right now. Image: AFP

Y’all say we need to reduce emissions now, but I don’t think you understand what that means. My country has, out of sheer poverty, reduced emissions dramatically. Sri Lanka simply cannot get fuel, for cooking, for transport, for electricity, for anything. That’s what reducing emissions now actually means. It’s…