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There is a power struggle under way about whether to continue to premise our policies based on confidence in what used to be called “good old Yankee ingenuity”) or to vest authority in the hands of experts whose superpower is the creation of clever models to dictate our course. There is also a dispute between proponents of growth, like us, and proponents of “limits to growth” or even “degrowth,” which we call out as “shrinkage,” to better the human, and Earthly, condition.