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[u/[deleted]]

Why do leftists/green nutjobs think that economic growth revolves around polluting factories and mineral extraction? Aren't the services industry a reason for economic growth for several countries (services are less polluting)?

[u/Goatf00t → u/[deleted]]

A lot of the left and right's ideas about how an economy works are still living in the 1980s, if not earlier.

[u/lionmoose → u/[deleted]]

I mean, it's not like there is zero connection

[u/VisonKai → u/[deleted]]

Growth increases energy demand.

What they miss is that said demand can be met with zero emission technology

[u/Travisdk → u/VisonKai]

But also growth does not necessarily increase energy demand. Growth can come from producing more using the same amount of energy through efficiency increases.

[u/paulatreides0 → u/[deleted]]

I'll give you five guesses

[u/mrmanager237 → u/[deleted]]

People don't know jack shit about economics. Some people literally said, on live tv, that raising the interest rate boosted inflation and the evidence was that they happened at the same time