I also think that EAs are way too optimistic when it comes to reach green growth. Most large scale environmental problems have gone worse globally, and continue to do so today, despite way better technology.
In my view, thinking that we’ll somehow solve something we failed to adress for the last 50 years, despite ample alerts, and despite decoupling being the main environmental policy… well, this strikes me as rather risky.
If you’re interested, I made a post on energy depletion that also adresses the issue of limits to growth. The second post adresses decoupling of energy and GDP. However, I’m more skeptical of the possibility that we’ll do a voluntary degrowth: the third post adresses that.
Thanks for the post ! I liked it.
I also think that EAs are way too optimistic when it comes to reach green growth. Most large scale environmental problems have gone worse globally, and continue to do so today, despite way better technology.
In my view, thinking that we’ll somehow solve something we failed to adress for the last 50 years, despite ample alerts, and despite decoupling being the main environmental policy… well, this strikes me as rather risky.
If you’re interested, I made a post on energy depletion that also adresses the issue of limits to growth. The second post adresses decoupling of energy and GDP. However, I’m more skeptical of the possibility that we’ll do a voluntary degrowth: the third post adresses that.