I'm simply applying elementary logic on the linguistics. If A = B and C is not equal A, then C cannot be equal B. It's not rocket science.

Hence Hinkel's "degrowth" is thus by linguistic definition equal to "away from development". Just a rock hard fact.

The inventor of the GDP metric already warned the world about it's limitations and danger of miss-use from day one. So no mystery here. Never was. The only really interesting question is why society systematically appoints leaders who are too stupid to understand the harm they are doing and systematically let them get away with it. That's the only true issue. That's why I consider "our" system of democratic governance an affront to intelligent life.

Hence my fundamental interest in the combination of https://www.ecogood.org and systemic consensus. Separating the wheat from the chaff saves me all a lot of time. In my opinion Hinkel doesn't know what he is doing. Fine for many as most of mankind aren't logic rational thinkers but primarily sentients, but not good enough for me.