The Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research has published a report, entitled “Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change.”
As productivity grows in high-income, as well as developing countries, social choices will be made as to how much of the productivity gains will be taken in the form of higher consumption levels versus fewer work hours,” author David Rosnick wrote in the introduction.
He notes that per capita work hours were reduced by 50 percent in recent decades in Europe compared to US workers who spend as much time as ever on the job, despite being a world leader in developing technologies that make us more productive. Working more means consuming more, on and off the job.
“This choice between fewer work hours versus increased consumption has significant implications for the rate of climate change,” the report said before going on to study various climate change and economic growth models.
The solution to pollution is slack. Rememberyou heard it here first.
Workers of the world, relax!
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"Gross Domestic Product"
-- by Horatio Algeranon
More time making junk
Is what we all require
Economic funk
Results when we retire
Now that's a proposal I can endorse with complete conviction 8^D!
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