The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?
By Steady State Manchester Team, Steady-State Manchester
Yet, for a politician to advocate increased economic growth, given the evidence, they have to be ignorant, wicked or stupid.
Tag: decoupling emissions from economic growth
A response to William Rinehart: Why lizards love degrowth
By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog
In the very same month the IPCC publishes an 8-year in the making, almost 3,000-page report, I find it scientifically insulting that someone dares to cobble a few graphs together in defence of a crackpot hypothesis whose scientific legitimacy has come close to Flat Earth theory.
Decoupling in the IPCC AR6 WGIII
By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog
What I intend to show in this paper is that the reassuring claim that decoupling is feasible, as one may read in the Summary for Policymaker and hear in the media, is scientifically ungrounded, and this based on the very analysis provided by the IPCC report.
Post-capitalism by design not disaster: A Grassroots Theory of Change (Part V of Eco Civilisation)
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Institute
Capitalism has various growth imperatives that are inconsistent with environmental limits. That is, capitalism must grow for stability but cannot grow limitlessly on a finite planet. It follows that the future will be post-capitalist – by design or disaster.
Is green growth happening?
By Timothée Parrique, Uneven Earth
So, is green growth happening? The answer is no, not really. As of today, economic growth is still a vector of resource use and environmental degradation.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Three
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Promoting economic growth is unethical because economic activity has overshot the carrying capacity of the biosphere and is degrading the ecological system.
Growth without economic growth
By R. Strand, Z. Kovacic, S. Funtowicz, L. Benini, A. Jesus, European Environment Agency
Economic growth is closely linked to increases in production, consumption and resource use and has detrimental effects on the natural environment and human health.
Aggregate green growth is a mirage: we need to take a more scientific approach to societal wellbeing
By Caroline Whyte, Feasta
In other words, it is impossible, within the time constraints that we are now facing, to decouple GDP growth from environmental damage strongly and deeply enough to be able to adequately repair that damage.
Of mice, men and elephants
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth Blog
In most prevailing sustainability narratives, increased efficiency is a prominent component. It is a prerequisite for the supposed possibility to combine decreasing pressure on natural resources with economic growth.
No, the “Environmental Kuznets Curve” won’t save us
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
My appeal to McAfee: let’s try to get beyond this sort of thing and engage more honestly with the empirical and theoretical work that has been done, so we can have more meaningful conversations. If we are going to realise our shared goals, we can and must do better.
What a Milk Carton Can Tell Us
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
My milk package, the electric cars, agriculture land use and the wood saving stoves are all examples showing why overall reduction in resources use or emissions (absolute decoupling) through substitution and efficiency is a pipe dream in a growth economy.
Green Economic Growth is an Article of ‘Faith’ Devoid of Scientific Evidence
By Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence
For years, financial institutions and governments have been focused on the idea of ‘decoupling’ GDP growth from resource use. This has been driven by the recognition that to stay within the ‘safe limit’ of 2 degrees Celsius, we have to dramatically reduce our material consumption.