Degrowth of human population X consumption is required, enabled, and accelerated by our explicit ecological overshoot depleting even the renewable resources of climate, soil, water and forests. We are using up our stocks of mineable stuff. So called emissions decoupling is due developed nations exploitation of global south, now being challenged BRICS arrangements. Elites already planning and implementing ways to rid themselves of surplus competitors and welfare burdens of their own national populations, doubly so with resource wars.