Why achieving the Paris Agreement requires reduced overall consumption and production

The recent paper ​of Philip Vergragt is extremely timely and helpful, in my view.

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2018-05-10 1:44 PM (2 hours ago) to SCORAI
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We are proud to present a new paper, written by members of the KAN SSCP Working group on Political Economy, criticizing the dominant message that technology and renewable energy will be sufficient to resolve the climate crisis:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2018.1458815

"Why achieving the Paris Agreement requires reduced overall consumption and production"

Philip
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The need is pretty clear?

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Global production =
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224 kg of steel/capita/year,​
and
13 imp. cwt. (>650kg) of farm produce /capita/year (ex livestock)
and
580 kg of cement/capita/year
...
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