Proponents of green growth argue economies can still keep growing if we just make our production methods sustainable. However this approach is criticized because it does not “recognize biophysical limits to exponential growth, ignoring important lessons from ecology and thermodynamics about the natural limits of growth.” Source
Degrowth argues that an equitable downscaling of production and consumption increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions at the local and global level, in the short and long term. Source
Bergh considers that it is better to be agnostic about growth (a-growth) and proposes a strategy that discounts GDP as an indicator, ‘since growth is not an ultimate end, not even the means to an end’ Source
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