Degrowth: How to Make the World Poorer, Polluted and Miserable

Activists have a new goal: “DEgrowth.”
They say “growth is killing us.” They couldn’t be MORE wrong.
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“Growth is not killing us. It’s saving us!” says author Johan Norberg. He explains why growth is essential to human progress, especially for poor people.
“In poor countries, if you manage to grow by 4% annually over 20 years,” he points out, “that reduces poverty in that country on average by 80%.
But DEgrowth activists insist that growth means “climate chaos.”
They say a smaller economy would be “sweeter.” They say “We must urgently dismantle capitalism!”
It’s destructive nonsense. This video explains why.

[@TheMichaelMove]

Their hatred of humanity is becoming more and more obvious.

[@AutisticVaxtard]

Jews

[@kimiknows]

I refer to them as the death cult.

[@TheMichaelMove]

@@kimiknows sad but true

[@danielleal1037]

To your point, these monsters also want to abolish or reduce rice crops across the world “coz methane.” Most likely due to the fact that over 3 billion people depend on that foodstuff for their survival.

[@mtamech535]

And obnoxious.

[@Mrmaniqs]

Thomas Sowell warned against the intellegencia. Always coming up with cosmic justice solutions!

[@3rett115]

It's funny how all the people pushing for reducing our quality of life have already got theirs and are 'safe' from the results of their own ideas.

[@dextermcgrubbin]

And bearing no consequences when their ideas are proven wrong

[@republitarian484]

And other people tried to warn us of another group of people that "cry 0ut in pain as dey strike you!".

[@grassyknowles63]

​@dextermcgrubbin nailed it, dude. Accountability and integrity are endangered species in today's world.

[@JohnNewtoner]

Well said 👍. The more esoteric and proclaimed enlightenment the more removed from reality.

[@trailertrish2587]

The smug, privileged professor. Big salary. Home in nice location near parks, bike paths and public transportation. Commutes 15 minutes to get to work. Promotes high gas taxes to "save the environment" and encourages use of public transportation. Those poorer than him have to commute three hours a day to work on public transportation but can't afford a car plus all the penalty fees. I would totally support this if these privileged promoters, proved their dedication and integrity by quitting their cushy jobs and go work for Walmart, a restaurant or clean hotel rooms. I want them to experience coming home in the dark, going straight to bed and doing it all again the next day.

[@gregoryeverson741]

I work in a factory that makes single use plastics, HAHA

[@srdjan455]

You know public transportation is only awful in America, I don't know how you people managed to fuck it up. How did the rest of the world figure it out but not you? Are you all stupid so you just can't figure it out Or could it be that the automobile industry doesn't want good public transportation because it would cut into their profits.

[@Asiaguydude]

Indeed the very definition of elitist.

[@jean-marclamothe8859]

Well said my friend!

[@dannygreen7473]

That will never happen. They're more equal than the rest of us.

[@josealexi5141]

Norberg showed up and answered questions. NO degrowth advocate was willing. *THAT* tells you everything you need to know about the strength of their arguments and if they even believe in themselves.

[@jebby16]

I'm down with degrowth of government.

[@uss-dh7909]

Argentina is the way.

[@gotti5472]

Bye

[@trainwreck420ish]

Then vote Maga

[@glynnetolar4423]

​@@trainwreck420ishhuh, wish that was true.

[@SepticFuddy]

@@uss-dh7909 VLLC

[@francisdrelling4060]

These are vile hypocrites. They don't stop their own personal growth while they seek to destroy the lives of others.

[@Rajaat99]

Rules for thee, but not for me.

[@Navy35]

Just like a liberal

[@Navy35]

Liberals, do as I say not as I do. Yt will delete this shortly because they believe in censorship

[@johnmarks227]

And they are using the very systems that allowed them to achieve in the first place, while deriding them.

[@Mereologist]

True socialists would give their books away rather than selling them. But they don't do that, do they?

[@TransNeingerian]

Wonder why they always focus on taking things away from the everyday man and NOT the largest consumers?

[@DavidSlaysGoliath]

Yeah people like Al Gore, John Kerry, and Leonardo DiCaprio have the biggest carbon footprints imaginable. Go after them not us poor plebs!!!

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

I studied humanities

[@dannygreen7473]

Marx 101.

[@josephknudson5097]

God bless you John Stossel. Thank you for all you do.

[@ExaValkur]

As with all activists, I say the same thing, "you first." They never reduce their own quality of life, ever.

[@Xiuhtec]

I still wouldn't join them, but I would at least respect them if they decided to embrace the asceticism they demand of others and live simple low footprint lives. Not one practices what they preach.

[@genepope7498]

@@Xiuhtec That's an interesting point. Back in the 1970s, some people embraced asceticism. Not too many stayed that way, but at least they were practicing what they preached.

[@firstandforemost87]

Why do ppl always assume they are saying ppl need to kill themselves?

[@davidscott5903]

​@@genepope7498 Because they found out how absolutely horrible it is.

[@dannygreen7473]

Marxism 101.

[@dextermcgrubbin]

They want de-growth for others, but not themselves. Join an Amish community instead of jet-setting to conferences.

[@stephenbrecht1696]

Don't screw the Amish!

[@kirkmcginty7163]

​@stephenbrecht1696 the Amish are hearty. They would turn these soy boys into real men.

[@matthorrocks6517]

The amish are not going to accept a blue haired sex maniac.

[@-OBELUS-]

They should just go live under communism instead of dragging the rest of us down with them.

[@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n]

some animals are more equal than others

[@hmmm..2733]

One thing I agree with…Grow as much of your own food as you can!

[@stevenw5013]

"Stossel TV is nowhere near my standards of rigorous journalism" Translation: "I'm afraid I'll embarrass myself"

[@stevexnycautomotive]

Degrowth for them, not for us.

[@ledzeppelin1212]

Exactly. I'd consider listening to these people if they weren't huge hypocrites!

[@rdhunkins]

These people don't want to sacrifice themselves. They want everyone else to sacrifice.

[@mustang607]

Leftists are not known for practicing voluntaryism.

[@randywise5241]

"Eat the bugs you wage slave." Socialism is evil. It is the politics of envy used to divide and subjugate.

[@mitkoogrozev]

Oh don't you worry it is for you too. Pretty sure USA, Europe, Australia and a few others must degrow the most. They are the major reason for the shit that we are getting into in the first place. The largest consumers of resource and energy in the world per person.

[@marcusmoonstein242]

"Degrowth" is the ultimate luxury belief. I live in an African country and poor people here live lives of destitution. Anybody who supports this crazy idea has never seen real poverty.

[@IronskullGM]

As the ruling class live in absolute luxury.. This is all be design..

[@barkmaker]

Maybe if everyone stopped churning out babies like a factory, there would be more resources to go around. Additionally, less labor availability generally equates to higher per hour wages.

[@IronskullGM]

@@barkmaker Umm, we have a negative birth rate at this moment. There are more migrants coming to the USA than there are Americans being born, so, maybe we should stop the mass migration first before we are expected to become the Hand Maiden's Tale... Just a thought...

[@christopherbrooks6355]

I've seen American poverty which on scale next u that looks wealth. I have a an understanding of ur poverty but I haven't witnessed it or been around it. These ideas come from folks here that have no clue how the world works or the genuine suffering of people around this planet. They think thier Netflix not loading fast enough is oppression

[@AutisticVaxtard]

@barkmaker Jew!

[@toddc206]

I love everything Stossel does.Thank you John!

[@CatWhiskering]

I work with some of these nutters who say we should "end capitalism" and punish economic growth and profit. What's true of 100% of them? They didn't grow up poor. They have no experience of poverty or deprivation, in their whole lives. If you grew up poor and pulled yourself out of poverty - e.g. you're the first in your family to buy a home, have a degree, go on vacations - you know how important it is to have opportunities that you can walk right up and take yourself instead of watching them be given to elite party members and cronies in a centrally-managed economy.

[@GusMahn]

They can live however they want to live: tiny house, no children, no car, no travel, no plastic… Leave the rest of us alone to live our lives.

[@martabachynsky8545]

Except for the "no children" part, this sounds like how serfs lived in the dark ages (fall of Rome til about 800 AD). Later on, medieval peasants had better lives than that (not all peasants were serfs).

[@crissd8283]

​@@martabachynsky8545If people want to have no children, that is their choice. Let people choose what they want as long as they don't impose those restrictions on others.

[@martabachynsky8545]

@@crissd8283 People are free to choose to have no children if they wish, although it's a bad thing in the long run (look at China's one child policy). I was just pointing out that having to live in a tiny house with no modern stuff (e.g. plastic, cars) and not being free to travel was how serfs lived.

[@DudeTheMighty]

You seem to be implying that these activists practice what they preach. The hypocrisy in the environmental movement rivals that of televangelist celebrity preachers.

[@CraftyF0X]

Assuming without any frictin that big houses, children, cars, travels and plastic should make everyone as happy as you were made by them.

[@steprockmedia]

"Stop capitalism!" says the guy on the stage of a well-lit, air-conditioned building with clean drinking water.

[@maddhatter3564]

with a high tech wireless sound system.

[@HANU8]

It is a cult of death-worshipers, coming from both the old German left and right, the Frankfurt School and the Nazis. Philosophical descendants of Kant, Nietzsche and Rousseau. An irrational blend of Freud and Karl Marx (the prince of the muddle-heads). Capitalism is the only way for humans to live. Men are rational beings in that they survive by volitionaly using their conceptual faculty (mind). If they choose not to utilize this faculty, they will suffer and eventually fail to produce what they need to survive. Man's environment is man made, to make his environment requires reason. Man cannot live without his mind, man can not live without his production. Thought is individual, not collective. All people work to satisfy their own desires/values (which may include the happiness of their children, for example). They will not work for anything or anyone else. They destroy all means and all incentives for production. Instead, they promote theft. The Frankfurt School and German-originating leftists want death for all because they failed (including their socialist/communist utopian system) and are bitter and cynical. The old German right wants to rekindle their movement by exploiting their old, previously exiled in the USA, adversaries' ascent by presenting a false alternative. They are all statists and death-worshipers. Subjectivist disintegrationists or collectivists authoritarians. Anti-growth, Anti-capitalism = Anti-human life = death worship. For example, if they believed in global warming, climate change or even in pollution, they would have been pushing for Nuclear power plants decades ago. Instead, they promoted "solutions" that do not work on purpose, to cause degrowth, poverty and starvation.

[@supermodestmouse]

also, doesn't grow his own food or make his own clothes. wants to reap all the benefits, but demand others get less

[@spannerturnerMWO]

And who is getting paid good money to do so. I'm willing to bet he wouldn't do those speeches for free. Rants against the very system that allows him to earn the living he has...

[@alchobum]

If they can stop capitalism, they think they will be in charge. Running gulags and re-education camps, hosting politburo events for the central committee, running factories printing hammer and sickle flags, and all that good stuff all properly left thinking Maoists and Stalinists love.

[@chrismusix5669]

"A large population is a king’s glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined." ~Proverbs 14:28

[@mre1984]

John out of all the journalists in the world you are the only one I can think of who actually invites different opinions to debate openly on a subject. Keep doing it sir! But he did say “his standards of rigorous journalism”.

[@QAlba1074]

Nobody wants to debate him because he's a corporate shill who will never change his own mind. The whole world could be destroyed by consumerism and environmental destruction and he would still be a capitalist sympathizer.

[@danielrizzo4927]

“Degrowth” is the stupidest idea ever. It means “give up and die”.

[@mustang607]

It's much more evil than that.

[@jovetj]

These people are delusional, with no honest grasp of history.

[@Columbus1152]

Probably more like, "we will designate who will live and who should die"

[@sdrc92126]

More for the survivors

[@mfallen6894]

@@mustang607 Yeah, "give up and die so your betters (us) can continue our lavish lifestyle and not have to feel guilty about it" Of course they could go after China, but they know they'd be laughed out of the room &/or stuffed into a forced labor camp... This is what happens when you make your society soft: wacko commies think they can talk you into killing/sterilizing yourself, giving away all your property, etc and they keep a straight face the entire time. In any other point in history they'd be driven out of polite society, but we have way too many of the inmates running the asylum... The good news is the WEF are a laughing stock, so they are failing. It's just scary they ever thought they had enough socio-political capital to ever propose such nonsense in the first place.

[@ryanhutsell2234]

WEF wants Degrowth. Degrowth will starve those not on the top out.

[@johnpalmer5131]

You got it in one. The people on top are perfectly happy to sacrifice everyone else for their advantage.

[@terywetherlow7970]

Women and children, first. Chivalry was always a myth.

[@Silver77cyn]

And if we keep polluting the planet as we are, we are still going to see degrowth in the future anyway.

[@marcodarko6941]

Feudalism coming down the pike.. two distinct classes.. the ultra wealthy and the ultra poor.

[@dannygreen7473]

They are the biggest threat humanity has ever faced.

[@bcatd]

Degrowth advocates don't talk about their desire to eliminate people

[@bengsynthmusic]

I think degrowth ties back to build back better. The reason for degrowth is so they make it sound like it's necessary when it's in fact inevitable due to decades of deficit and money printing. A way of avoiding accountability for their failed fiscal policies.

[@grimview]

They could also be anti-immigration, cause you know if the country sucks like California, then every one would just leave. Just allow poor people to steal under $700, legalize drugs & then get Russia to back the anti-fa occupy movements like they did in the Ukraine to reduce both population & growth.

[@davidbell4986]

We don't have capitalism even now. If government would stop interfering, we'd have much higher growth.

[@patrickbateman1660]

Oh stfu you probably support trump and he wants 60% tariffs on everything and more regulation

[@zg-it]

Seriously, every time I hear someone conflate capitalism for corporatism it reminds me that they probably went to the government School

[@notapplicable8957]

@@zg-it Preach.

[@patrickbateman1660]

@@zg-it so you are anti tariffs?

[@Realhastalamuerte1980]

This is the real capitalism

[@CCoburn3]

Notice how the "degrowth" people are all pampered rich people.

[@barrym2112]

Not true, I’m one of the poorest people I know and certainly far from pampered. I don’t hate capitalism either. John painted degrowth people with a very broad brush that was not accurate.

[@CCoburn3]

@@barrym2112 Give me a break! You're watching KZbin videos on a computer. You are NOT one of the "poorest people." And you don't have sense enough to see that the computer you are using, the electricity that runs it, the house you live in, and everything about your life is the result of the growth you deplore. Go live a few years in a shack in the slums of some city in Africa or Asia and then come back and tell us how much you hate economic growth pulling people out of poverty.

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

​@@barrym2112 If you're so poor, how do you have a computer/phone with viable internet connection to watch this? I don't buy your little astroturfed sob-story.

[@Tzizenorec]

The degrowth position _really_ needs some steelmanning. I'm not very familiar with the position, but my brain is just screaming "everyone here is beating on a strawman".

[@Tzizenorec]

@@CCoburn3 So you're saying everyone capable of talking to you at all is disqualified from supporting degrowth because they're "too rich". Nice. Don't disqualify people unless you can - and do - talk to the people who aren't disqualified.

[@terryfriend16]

Old fan, John, always respected your investigative reporting.

[@bobtepedino5661]

You touched upon the ONLY question to ask de-growthers," John: "Knowing that de-growth, with its rejection of Capitalism, is essentially Socialism, why do the world's economic migrants move overwhelmingly FROM Socialist countries TO Capitalist ones?"

[@chrisb1029384]

John stossle has been the gold standard for journalism since before that guy was born.

[@Darryl6636]

You got that right I’ve been watching him since the ‘80’s

[@heretic0014]

These are the SAME people who say "men can get pregnant".

[@danielleal1037]

That shows us how really far removed from reality these monsters truly are.

[@OffGridandOutdoors]

Wait? What? They can't 🤣

[@MasterRoshi69]

I don't know... I feel like I give birth every once in a while. But all my babies are crap

[@InternetDarkLord]

G@nder is really a sublime and beautiful part of nature like forests, rainbows, or birds singing. This is a classic example of how Far Left extremism is bad for nature.

[@pseudo_goose]

And the same people who demand free healthcare. If you want degrowth, you get no healthcare.

[@louischavey]

I always enjoy John's programs and this one does raise some interesting issues. If the what that we need to solve is "the bi-product of consumption (waste) is a problem", then starving to reduce waste may not be a desirable outcome (death).

[@iamkesha.]

We are living in a corporatocracy. When I was a business student in high school and college, we were taught businesses operated their balance sheet ti get a profit outcome, starting income from their heir own money or from investments. Today it seems like the government is funding most of everything, it is hard to see where they are not involved.

[@scuddyleblanc8637]

Instead of being political activists for controlling other people's lives, the degrowth activists should change their own lives: live off grid, make their own clothes, grow their own food, build their own shelters, give up the amenities of modern life, etc. That way they live by the standards demand for others live and show that they can do more than just virtue signal.

[@sdrc92126]

Real communism

[@septembersurprise5178]

I agree. Talk the talk? Walk the walk. Degrowth is easy, don't go to work, ever!

[@Navy35]

It’s like the same liberals in Martha’s Vineyard who virtual signals about open borders, but had the migrants removed within 48 hours

[@bigg4454]

They can always live in a shipping container and not ever come out.

[@jasondashney]

Remember, the occupy Wall Street protest where people were angry that there was inequity? on the daily show when it used to actually be good, correspondent went out and asked the activists who claimed they wanted everybody to be equal if they would let other people use their iPad. Things got awkward, really quick, ha ha. They’re the most privileged hypocrites ever.

[@oooshafiqooo4722]

Degrowth is a rich people thing, whom is living a life of luxury already

[@rdhunkins]

Don't think for a minute they will be the ones to shift to a 'post-capitalist' economy or participate in 'degrowth'. They want to impoverish everyone else, but not themselves. They are evil.

[@cadillacguy1890]

Exactly, they have theirs. Don’t see them rushing to give it up, do you?

[@HollyMoore-wo2mh]

Yes - JUST like all those who go to davos ... on jets... cars AND helicopters. They'd have bit more credence IF they ZOOMED all their meetings but I don't see that happening any time soon. Liars and hypocrites. Sitting with their heads in the clouds.

[@Levi-my5mz]

I won’t take climate change seriously until the world bans private jets. The rich need to take the life style decline first.

[@mitkoogrozev]

That's really idiotic. Do you know what rich means? It's a term that's the opposite of poor, and by definition, the richer you are the more resource and energy you use. They are the people who are least likely to want de-growth. They are the most rewarded individuals in our growth based global economy, and as such they are the most invested, which means they are the least likely to want to give it up. If you listen to Musk, Bezos, Gates, politicians in power etc. all those rich pricks say they WANT growth. They want the population to keep going up and up, and that de-growth is bad. You can find almost direct quotes from them.

[@salarycat]

We’re passengers of a spaceship without a pilot, hoping for the universe’s grace to not throw another asteroid toward us. No notion of degrowth makes sense until we’re able to navigate in space and take the wheel of our own destiny.

[@tomvanbreukelen2909]

A very refreshing point of view. This is what you don't hear in the media and that is a shame. The Covid-19 analogy was a very good example. Many small companies went bankrupt. People became depressive, etc. etc. So, yes capitalism is the only way to get people out of poverty. It is also gives the consumer the freedom and power to decide of what to buy and not.

[@JAKPM]

If you want to see de growth go to a rust belt town, like Detroit, Flint and Saginaw Michigan.

[@ff7h]

or any river town along the ohio that blew up in the late 1800s and then became desolate. their ideas are driven by ideology, this does not help anyone to go in reverse.

[@longestvideoever]

Nah thats too poor for the pretentious liberals

[@QAlba1074]

@@ff7hIsn't "growth" driven by ideology?? Moron.

[@ronnie2115]

They applaud in the conference center, wearing their designer clothing, speaking through a sound system, scrolling on their phones.....and condemn the capitalism responsible for all of it.

[@TheSpiral01]

Brilliant answer, should be on top.

[@nickbono8]

When you have enough money to care about the environment, you’ve made it!

[@alejandroherrera5271]

To say that John Stossel, who was a journalist on 60 Minutes (back in the day when it was in higher regards) isn't up to your level of journalism? That freaking wild to say

[@justingross]

The fact they wouldn’t speak to Stossel speaks volumes.

[@SoloRenegade]

and they wont give up their private jets

[@BillGreenAZ]

It's called dismissiveness. They don't argue the point. I posted on one message board about Stossel's video about a Leftist promoting climate change who was later proven wrong but was lifted up by climate enthusiasts. The person replying to me just said Stossel had slanted right-wing stories even though the story was about a Leftist.

[@briant7265]

Their "standards of journalism" require "journalists" who won't ask questions.

[@ernestturriziani2489]

Leftists never debate. NEVER - they are lazy buffoons who rely on other propel to produce food and products for them.

[@guy38853]

"1. Compared to what? 2. At what cost? 3. What hard evidence do you have?" - Thomas Sowell.

[@axidhaus]

John you have always been a great reporter….. i have been a fan since my youth

[@NickFrom1228]

One of the key problems with degrowth is that it is pushed by people that are in the everyone else first mindset and that if it is done then there will be some kind of utopia that results. They don't believe in the very real and very assured outcome of their delusion.

[@ceylongodfrey9324]

Stossel sets the journalism standard!

[@lisastarry9531]

In other words,I don’t want to be challenged,I want same think journalist ,to provide me right.. crazy world we are currently living. 🤡🌎

[@smoothALOE]

Damn straight. His rebuttal is a laugh.

[@davidgardiner4720]

Maybe true, but they set it very low.

[@FP194]

@@lisastarry9531 So you just described yourself

[@mitkoogrozev]

That's a pretty low deplorable standard. This is my first video of this channel and the whole video is outright lies, leaps in logic and loose associations.

[@pigdroppings]

Degrowth is similar to defund the police....and that was a total failure.

[@grassyknowles63]

Defund the police, was used to put a bad name on those calling for Demilitarizing the police (a legitimate concern).

[@grassyknowles63]

Defund the police, was used to put a bad name on those calling for Demilitarizing the police (a legitimate concern).

[@TinyCryptoBlog]

A lot of people still actually believe ideology is more powerful than incentives.

[@dingusdingus2152]

@pigdroppings no police departments have ever been defunded at any time anywhere ever.

[@mustang607]

It's just part of the grand destabilize Western society and take over the world program.

[@pete8707]

"I've grown, got mine, but you can't."

[@jerrybobteasdale]

So much of the appeal is that they get a charge from posing as unconventional. It feels daring. It's a shortcut to posing as smart. It's empty.

[@flyroket]

That's what they're afraid of... rigorous journalism.

[@Grayald]

Nothing says confidence in your position like only wanting to speak to an audience of clapping seals that already agree with you.

[@MGAF688]

@@Grayald John Stossel has been in journalism longer than that clown has been alive. In fact, Stossel is one of the most accomplished journalists in America, by far. He has been at his craft for many decades and worked in many of the largest news bureaus in the world. Laughable that this a--hat would turn down Stossel.

[@dannygreen7473]

@@Grayald That's how they build momentum. Don't underestimate their reach.

[@QAlba1074]

Rigorous propaganda.

[@jeffpadilla9891]

People who denounce capitalism are some of the ones who are benefiting the most from capitalism.

[@republitarian484]

This is old news. Two sides of the same "coin"; Capitalism/Communism. You were warned long ago. An individual tried to stop them but the entire world fought against him.

[@mikewayne6608]

Exactly!

[@mitkoogrozev]

This is completely the opposite of what the reality is. The people who benefit the most from some circumstance, become the most invested in said circumstance, so they are the people who are most likely to defend what got them to their position of advantage, and are the people who are least likely to take any critique. What you wrote shows utter lack in understanding of psychology, reinforcement, motivation and all the related concepts, that allows you to understand how people and organisms in general learn and function.

[@sdrc92126]

"To the Rockefellers, socialism is not a system for redistributing wealth - especially not for redistributing their wealth -but a system to control people and competitors. Socialism puts power in the hands of the government. And since the Rockefellers control the government, government control means Rockefeller control." --Gary Allen Files

[@me-myself-i787]

​@@mitkoogrozevThe people who benefit most from capitalism can't believe that they could possibly be so well-off without subjugating others, so they believe they're subjugating others and spend lots of money paying others to confirm that belief. Plus, their parents teach them to respect university professors, and their university professors constantly rail against capitalism (of course they do; academics usually benefit from communism).

[@KulibinX]

Peasants not supposed to have, consume and travel. They have to sit tight eat z e bugs and pray for all mighty government.

[@hagerty1952]

Of course they wouldn't come on your show. They don't want to debate, they want to pontificate. Get the faithful all riled up to "affect change" by any means possible.

[@taboovsknowledge1603]

Did you see the soft, well manicured hands on those capitalist haters? While they capitalize!

[@gregj831]

Correct

[@veritatemdicam4585]

Exactly. All these young Marxists wouldn’t give up just their phones, let alone all the other benefits of capitalism they enjoy. They have no concept of the consequences of what they are striving for.

[@STho205]

The conclusion was correct. Those that have benefitted from generations of growth now have the leisure time to obsess about nature. Those battling it every day just to survive actually hate nature. The current activists you see are grifters. Look at their presentations, hipster fashion, hair product, salesmen in air conditioned auditoriums on university campuses...taking flights from speaking gig to speaking gig. Speaking to the pampered children of surface dwellers of Metropolis while ignoring the gangs of laborers sweating below. They are as removed from the antigrowth nature they promote as they can be. The forester cutting trees, the hunter shooting deer and the farmer growing crops are much closer and more in tune with the natural world these fake scholars say they promote.

[@KBergs]

You're just shooting the messenger. There's finite resources and you have people promoting infinite growth. This ends one of 2 ways: we descend into chaos as the competition for resources reaches a breaking point or since humans have the the intelligence to make long term decisions we can manage our own population to prevent collapse. A good microcosm to represent this is locusts, once the grass hopper has over populated they mutate into cannibals.

[@STho205]

@@KBergs so if you propose less use, consumption and negative growth....I'm open minded to an example to study...you go first. We'll watch. You can bang out your experiences on hollow log drums. We'll write up the results, but you'll never know about it in your hide lodge in the wilderness. In reality the 'movement' is about these fuzzy wuzzies not knowing their place and remaining poor and downtrodden forever so your mommy can say, eat up, there are starving children in China.

[@Winterascent]

It is typical moronic empty virtue signalling from people who will always tell others to do as they say, and not as they do. Like listening to a billionaire tell people to eat bugs, while he eats beef at a conference he flew to in his private jet.

[@Winterascent]

@@KBergsOh, a cult member!

[@sdrc92126]

But think of the utopia the beneficiaries will inherit after getting the population down to 5% of current levels. This is about reducing suffering. It is better to have never lived than to live in misery and poverty. The Earth can support 500,000 Oprahs

[@rcppop3090]

I know out of personal experience that growth is good. I literally wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for the growing communities around me.

[@slydog7131]

I think when some people talk about these things it is more about consumerism than about growth. The idea that we need to constantly upgrade our cell phones, our clothes, all the stuff and clutter we accumulate. It is not about everyone living poorer or staying poor, it is about the continual pursuit of always more stuff that just ends up in the landfill all too soon. Many people of all income levels find themselves in tight financial conditions because of the relentless pursuit of more, more, more. Our government is a great example: $34T in debt and still spending like the goose is still laying those eggs.

[@QAlba1074]

One of the more sane comments with only 3 likes....... says ALOT about the people who follow this garbage channel. IT'S ALL PROPAGANDA.

[@robertwilliams7258]

Look at them in their expensive clothes talking about degrowth. They can run naked in the forest and live like an animal if they want to. Let’s see how long they last.

[@longestvideoever]

I say 15 minutes before they drive off to the nearest Trader Joe's

[@philippenight2421]

@@longestvideoeverwhy you have to bring Trader Joe’s into this?

[@briant7265]

They think if they get what they want, they will be among the anointed ones. History says they will be the first to disappear.

[@krismiller9911]

I mean if going into the wild was an option I'd have done it years ago. It is of course illegal to live in the woods and off the land. How would you get your deer tags or fishing license 😂

[@Deperdussin1910]

Not too long.. Read Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. 😢

[@doughemminger407]

To parrot the immortal words of a genius, visionary, and founder of the EIB institute : “Capitalism, it works every time it’s tried !”

[@DavidSlaysGoliath]

Yeah I miss Rush Limbaugh!

[@about29cats]

That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred. Anyone who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments. In a sense, the political left’s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create ‘social justice,’ you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that simple fact.” The whole political vision of the left, including socialism and communism, has failed by virtually every empirical test, in countries all around the world. But this has only led leftist intellectuals to evade and denigrate empirical evidence. The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior. No one can really understand the political left without understanding that they are about making themselves feel superior, however much they may talk piously about what they are going to do to help others. Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the left. What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly repeated. Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don’t find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don’t find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance. Wherever you get enough far left people in power, you can find a similar willingness to force everyone into collectivist conformity at all costs. The left is not necessarily aiming at totalitarianism. But their know-it-all mindset leads repeatedly and pervasively in that direction, even if by small steps, each of which might be called ‘micro-totalitarianism.’ What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people-like themselves-need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat. Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency. The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular. That is also their greatest fraud. It even fools many leftists themselves. No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it. ~Thomas Sowell

[@jseal21]

Why don't these "experts" that have such high journalistic standards ever come on shows that they feel are lower quality shows and elevate the dialogue and lift up a show? Obviously these experts that speak nothing but facts should be able to fend off even low brow Journalists like the lowly John Stossel and his 19 Emmy's and Peabody Award. I love you John, thank you for your years of outstanding Journalism.

[@domiparavasilinus603]

They're not concerned about journalistic standards, they make their interview decisions based solely on whether it will be an echo chamber or not.

[@jseal21]

@@domiparavasilinus603 Of course. Why defend your ideas when there is a gaggle of sycophants waiting to hang on your every word. Such a sad state of things...

[@raphaelrae8186]

With all of the lies and misinformation that people are absorbing, factual honesty like this is more important than ever.

[@gregmaslak7037]

It's amazing how those who have the most and produce little or nothing want to decide for everyone else what we can think,do and say!

[@republitarian484]

They're called Parasites.

[@barbaramccoy6448]

And they call us useless eaters!

[@kenspears7159]

Can all of these DeGrowth people move to ANY non-capitalist country and then maybe we'll start listening, maybe.

[@Despiser25]

Name any Capitalist countries left in the World? America hasnt had real Capitalism since FDR rammed his Fascist New Deal up Americas arse.

[@mitkoogrozev]

There are no such countries currently. Capitalism is everywhere, it has successfully infected the whole Earth for some time now. You will not find a country that does not use money and corporations. There are leaders in some countries who would LIKE to be non-capitalist, but it's mainly just verbal, just talk. A desire, an aspiration . But in practice, in reality, there are no such countries.

[@gregj831]

They're not about to give up their expensive high rise and turbo Mercedes for that.

[@zimfan101]

They always seem to come out of the Western Academia cesspool. You don't ever hear any scholars from any African country speaking like this. Those people always talk about the need for prosperity and modernization.

[@longestvideoever]

So basically virtue signalling?

[@jerryk3697]

John, please keep on doing what you are doing. You are a voice of reason in a world that seems to be getting crazier and crazier by the day.

[@jmeister7477]

He is using diversion as a way of distracting from issues of growth. A bit disingenuous. The issue is marxism has the same problem.

[@QAlba1074]

You're one of the crazies if you believe this propaganda.

[@jmeister7477]

@QAlba1074 It is propaganda though as it is near the extreme end of the scale. It is disingenuous as it is emphasising some good points and dismissing or not mentioning counter arguments. The extreme left are equally as flawed as they grossly expand the power dynamic explanation beyond its logical end point. I am not picking sides here. Not my country anyway.

[@jerryk3697]

I have read many of John Stossel's books (as well as many others) and I have learned enough to recognize baseless, nonsensical propaganda when I see it. And this isn't it! If you want to see "propaganda" tune in to MSNBC or CNN. Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, etc, etc I'm sure will set the record straight!

[@QAlba1074]

@@jerryk3697Joseph Goebbels would be proud of both of you.

[@paulamoskowitz-xs3rl]

Hadn't seen you John in years. Miss you on 20/20. Nice to see you back reporting again.

[@kokofan50]

He’s never stopped

[@Matt14785]

Dear Degrowth Proponents, Check your privilege! Signed, The Poor People You Claim to Care About

[@englishincontext4025]

Well said.

[@martinalarcon3108]

That millennial that’s talking about pandemics being good , someone should take away all the luxuries he has and see how good life will be when he actually has to practice what he is preaching 😮😢

[@Amar7605]

💯

[@cebruthius]

They never cared about poor people. That's the point.

[@martinalarcon3108]

@@cebruthius yeah like the state of this country under Biden democrats

[@Furluge]

Oh hey look, they're being honest about what they want. This undercurrent has been there in the movement as long back as I can remember into the 90s. Nice of them to finally come out and just say they hate people and want them to die.

[@CWills4liberty]

At 1:48 thank you for showing Lancaster, Pennsylvania!

[@usernameisusername]

Their hormone levels have degrowthed

[@Jjchg]

And brain cells😅

[@stephenbrecht1696]

Nah, I think it's their brains!

[@Xamufam]

Well they take hormon blockers

[@cdnron75]

It's amusing that Parrique said that Stossel is "nowhere near my standards of rigorous journalism so I'll pass.". More than likely, he knows that Stossel is one of the few true journalists left who will actually ask him hard questions and bring up evidence to show that degrowth is detrimental to the planet.

[@paulholmes672]

Parrique and his ilk are using a Newspeak term of "journalism", meaning propaganda.

[@LaborHours]

You would think he would want to reach as many people as possible in order to "save the planet". It's almost like he only wants certain people in certain groups to hear him.

[@truecanadian1616]

Additionally these people want everyone to be dependent on Socialist Parties for their existence. Just like the model in the old USSR, Maoist China and today's North Korea. Utopia on Earth !!!

[@viggler]

@@LaborHours ...certain people who will pay money to hear him.

[@justsayin4632]

Yeah he should publish his “approved” journalist list so we can all have a hearty laugh😂

[@jonboy4329]

The people that say that the human race takes up too much space as obviously never driven through South Dakota North Dakota Wyoming Iowa

[@Otto-mq8lg]

The interview with Charles Murray mentions the progress from WW2 till 1960s before welfare, also even in an advanced modern day with all the advantages in many fields less general progress etc, very interesting..

[@noahhowellstone1264]

If the activist truly believe all this then they could go to Canada and go to the medical assistance in death centers

[@barrym2112]

It’s not easy for a non-Canadian to get that service.

[@boyblue3270]

I know, I looked a while back. Still wondering if there is a way to get temp citizenship...

[@peterz22thomas5]

​@@barrym2112This sounds like a worthy cause for protest.

[@wishteria234]

@@boyblue3270 just cross the border and claim asylum and very shortly after that you can get MAID. Do not do it.

[@benfaubion]

@@peterz22thomas5 I thought the same, why not be an example and show others what they should be doing.

[@thebluelunarmonkey]

marxists should consider Degrowth a self-help project

[@BackToYa]

💯

[@I-hate-sundays]

Do you know what Marxism is beyond conservative babble?

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

​@I-hate-sundays many of us lived during the USSR and seen the result.

[@Wrath_0]

@@I-hate-sundays how far will you go to defend something as self-destructive as Marxism?

[@MrHeavy466]

@@I-hate-sundaysA system partially developed by a man who made his living off of other people's money.

[@OmeedNOuhadi]

Top notch! 🎉👏👏👏👏

[@frankhuston2616]

Great work John!! Thanks!!

[@user-nh3gu1ge3d]

It's funny how the crowd demonizing "consuming more stuff" is the same crowd that turned literally everything into disposable junk that doesn't last even if we wanted it to. "Make sure you buy the new iPhone every year." *Makes all your appliances grenade after 5 years. That's literally why they are pushing battery cars. When the battery in the car dies out of warranty, 95% of EVs will be totaled. "Perfect, more sales!"

[@BlindWitchFire]

True _!_ My 350k mile'd Ford F350 Diesel from the year 2000 seems to keep on running. Hearing all of this EV gibberish, I will never sell my Diesel.

[@user-nh3gu1ge3d]

@@BlindWitchFire especially since it's pre-emissions gimped. One of the few vehicles worth actually repairing and restoring.

[@kilburn1313]

There are acres & acres of EV cars & bikes/scooters in the trash heap in China, cars will be like cordless drills & other tools or implements in time, in every house & garage

[@MelbourneHandyman]

Typical hypercrites

[@daveassanowicz186]

The crowd that brought us engineered obsolescence were the BOOMERS and are one of if not the most Consumerist generation of Americans

[@TheKlamminator]

Sounds like genocide

[@kimiknows]

The death cult will never be satisfied.

[@equaltoreality8028]

That is the goal.

[@republitarian484]

They want to jennoside people of Eur0pean Descent.

[@johnwong5317]

They are helping Russia and China because the leaders of these 2 countries will do anything for economic growth to stay in power.

[@mustang607]

They could bring back the more queer practices of some of the indigenous humans that were historically oppressed. We could have a rise of woke cannibalism.

[@user-si7on2bo8z]

With content like this the channel should have way more subscribers

[@blakethibeau]

Buying less stuff isn't a problem in Canada! The increasing taxes we pay make sure of that! Maybe that's an angle to support taking more and more of our income....we're saving the planet!

[@karlwheatley1244]

Actually, to be "saving the planet," Canadian's would have to shrink their ecological footprint by over 60%.

[@NotALoonOhio]

Ask Haiti how degrowth works.

[@ballybunion9]

Another home run from John Stossel. 👍🏻

[@frankcastle8658]

And anorher important factor is that economic growth means, that even more people freely interact with eachother in mutually benificial relationships. So that they have less reason to fight each other since cooperation sets everybody in a better position than beeing at war. There is on the long run no better program for peace than trading and working with each other on projects. One does not even have to like each other to acknowladge this.

[@hansslane7080]

This is similar to the no desire,no organization,no discipline idea. Common for people to fear controland or predictability because some is outside of total control,so giving up is the comfortable default.

[@dovlacro6382]

Planned obsolescence is the biggest polluter

[@glennireland163]

The biggest?

[@mtamech535]

Thank you…DEFINITELY.

[@aelfredrex8354]

Yeah, but if they didn't do it, then there'd be way less jobs and even more poverty. Either produce more useless waste products which pays for the workers' meals or shut down the factories that make it and the workers starve. It's the Catch 22 of economics.

[@mtamech535]

@@aelfredrex8354 reminds me of when Milton Friedman visited a 3rd world country and the politician beamed as he said, “Instead of using big machinery to dig, we used more men with shovels which creates more jobs.” Milton turned to him and said, “Why didn’t you use spoons instead?” Your argument is ludicrous.

[@michaellowe3665]

​@aelfredrex8354 False. Making disposable crap isn't progress. It's stagnation. Making stuff that lasts, then inventing new things that didn't previously exist, is progress.

[@rickgotner7596]

I have one response to these fools ... "you go first."

[@charliewatkin9357]

Good stuff. Commenting for the algorithm

[@reinedire7872]

Planned degrowth would be a nightmare. But nothing grows forever and nothing stays the same so I think degrowth that happens organically is inevitable. What triggers it and how abruptly or gradually it takes place is what determines how much suffering will accompany it.

[@joshcal7370]

There’s a reason tyrants always try to keep their people in poverty. When you’re struggling just to survive, it’s harder to fight an uphill battle to take back your freedom.

[@stevemiller1517]

Until every one has nothing to lose, then elites must hide.

[@davidpennmiller354]

Thanks for exposing the nonsense of these people and their harmful ideas.

[@CarbageMan]

"Go forth and multiply."

[@BEERNBBQBYLARRY]

Well said!

[@sidwhiting665]

Degrowth activist: "We need to dismantle capitalism and sharply limit consumption!" Capitalist: "Okay, how about we start with you giving up your smart phone, moving into a smaller apartment, and cancel flights to all your conferences?" DA: "Well, um.... I mean we need to limit everyone ELSES' growth and consumption. I must continue to get more so I can spread this important message...."

[@mikewayne6608]

Yep! The hypocrisy is real.

[@-fazik-3713]

They can all degrowth themselves.

[@danielcrane991]

I find it amazing that the people that call for an end to economic growth are the people receiving 10s of thousands of dollars for these seminars! What needs to be controlled is people and their numbers. Do away with child tax credits, help poorer countries with their over population and understand that fewer mouths means more money and prosperity.

[@IamNotashamed88]

Another great video proving that facts don’t care about your feelings.

[@mr.normalguy69]

It's funny how the people who advocate for de-growth aren't your average working class people, but are usually the political elite and the people who are in the upper or in the upper middle class category. In other words, the people who promote de-growth are the people who will be least affected by it's effects and will also force the middle and the lower class people to become more dependant either the government or the wealthy (or both). The conspiracy theorist in me, tells me that they are basically trying to create a caste of slaves dependent on the state through ever increasing amount of regulations, higher taxes, inflation, de-growth and various other means. This is not good :(

[@TXMEDRGR]

We tried degrowth once, it was called the Dark Ages.

[@mitkoogrozev]

That was not tried. That happened to people as a RESULT OF growth. There are limits to growth, and if you go over your available resources, nature crashes you violently into degrowth. But now we know more about the world. We can track and account for resources, we know more about ecology, nitrogen and carbon cycle, regeneration rates of various resources etc. so we can adjust ourselves to live in a steady state, and not experience violent degrowth as a result of too much growth. We can instead do it intelligently and willingly, to avoid the wars , famines and starvation, that otherwise will be forced upon us by nature if we keep staying into ecological overshoot. You either live within natural law, or suffer the consequences. It's about time we learned that collectively and we stop repeating the mistakes of every previous civilization that also perished because of resource exhaustion caused by constant growth.

[@leobuana7430]

​​@@mitkoogrozev so should we give up vactination ? In natural cycle those who are infected by disease is either survive through grit or die and removed by predator or scavenger

[@mitkoogrozev]

@@leobuana7430 Lets not get ahead of ourselves. First you have to make it clear that you understand and agree that there's a problem. Solutions are a completely separate topic. I'm trying to make it clear because it's a common pattern in people to do the following : They DO understand a problem exists, a real serious one, BUT they also can only think of horrible solutions, so they get afraid from their lack of imagination, and since they reject their own solutions, erroneously they also then reject the problem exists. Basically they become delusional due to fear, and go to channels like this one to confirm to themselves that there is no problem etc. Basically to feel good. They throw out the baby with the bathwater as the saying goes.

[@wishteria234]

@@mitkoogrozev absolutely a lie,

[@mitkoogrozev]

@@wishteria234 What's a lie? I touch upon so many things that can be broken down into separate subjects or points that I have no idea what you mean.

[@chriscampanozzi6516]

Great information as always, thank you for your content. Stay safe and keep fighting. Prayers for you and your family.

[@fnaffan6999]

I’m a democrat, nice too hear someone from the other side that I agree with!

[@savagenorthfishing3259]

Hilarious that none of them would face John Stossel. The one guy said he's not a good enough journalist. No one has heard of him, yet John Stossel is one of the greatest journalists of my time.

[@QAlba1074]

Stossel is a delusional bloviating gas bag corporate shill who needs to retire.

[@charlesallan-ks6gq]

God bless freedom

[@bonifaceawa]

Dictators, philosopher-kings, and armchair socialists, define "responsible journalism" as journalism with which they agree.