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by pr337h4m·3y ago·view on hn ↗
"At a three-day “Beyond Growth” conference held at the European Parliament in Brussels this week (and organised by 20 mainly left-leaning MEPs), an audience of youngsters whooped and cheered as speakers proclaimed that, this time, the limits of growth really have been reached. Driven by ecological concerns and riled by social injustice, to them the question is no longer how to mitigate the effects of human activity, for example by investing in green technologies."

Not just regular MPs, it gets much, much worse:

Von der Leyen: https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1658022320827518977

The president of the European Parliament: https://twitter.com/timparrique/status/1658009279754915840

Palling around with Hickel and Vandana Shiva:

https://twitter.com/ERC_Research/status/1657835551901270023 https://twitter.com/ICTA_UAB/status/1655860218868252672 https://twitter.com/AndreasShrugged/status/16583961046254632...