In your article, you use the word "growth" 31 times without defining it, not even once. That is, I believe, the source of a lot of confusion and leads by default to reasoning that doesn't hold ground.

The importance of Confucious's doctrine of the Rectification of Names cannot be overstated and should be abided:

"If names are not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. "When affairs cannot be carried on to success, human wellbeing cannot flourish".

Hence I've had a crack at it. https://gl-10190.medium.com/debunking-degrowth-part-ii-aded18d44652