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

By Dan Hannan

Published November 8, 2021 5:01am ET

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The pandemic proved that ‘degrowth’ doesn’t help the planet — A lone climate demonstrator holds a banner outside parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, ahead of the UN climate conference COP26 that will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, next week. | (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

There’s nothing like a climate summit to bring out all the Marxists, mugwumps, and misanthropes.

They want us to pursue “degrowth.” They tell anyone who will listen that “capitalism is killing the planet.” They call for “limitarianism,” their latest buzzword. We should, in other words, limit everything: our travel, our diet, our recreation, our procreation.

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