# Green Growth, or Degrowth?

**URL:** https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/green-growth-or-degrowth/810
**Category:** General
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/green-growth-or-degrowth/810 "2022-09-23T09:08:08Z")
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### Author: ![Nagaraju\_G](https://grove.rainmatter.org/user_avatar/grove.rainmatter.org/nagaraju_g/32/1318_2.png) [@Nagaraju\_G](https://grove.rainmatter.org/u/Nagaraju_G)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/green-growth-or-degrowth/810/6 "2023-07-23T13:40:42Z")

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Changing economic model to be restorative and regenerative is critical.

Degrowth doesn’t have to mean GDPs don’t grow or losing technological advances:

1. **GDPs can continue to grow** by supporting local businesses meeting local needs sustainably. By growing [climate action as an economic output](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/alternatives-to-social-platforms-are-crucial-for-climate-action-by-the-larger-economy/1884), ‘growing GDPs’ then wouldn’t be a bad thing for the planet.

2. Enabling more accessibility of technology to more people, would only result in greater potential for more technological advances. 8 billion humans could be working on 8 billion technological advances, as long as they are done sustainably **degrowth is _not_ anti-technology.** (which is the main argument against it).

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