🌱 Is Green Growth Possible?

The techno-optimist counterpoint to degrowth. Ezra Klein interviews Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data, who argues for a 'politics of transition' over a 'politics of sacrifice': 'It's only very recently that we have the technologies to generate large amounts of cheap energy without burning stuff… people underestimate the scale of that opportunity.' Read alongside the degrowth case, it's a bracing map of how thoughtful people who agree on the severity of the crisis diverge sharply on the cure.