{"id":35747,"date":"2018-07-06T07:37:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35747"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T12:37:01","slug":"govt-economic-advisor-warns-british-defence-planners-that-growth-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35747","title":{"rendered":"Govt economic advisor warns British defence planners that growth is\u00a0ending"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Govt economic advisor warns British defence planners that growth is\u00a0ending<\/a><\/h3>\n

Study charts the protracted collapse of industrial economic growth and why prosperity must be built on a new economic model. And no, the Singularity won\u2019t save\u00a0us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Economic growth isn\u2019t coming back. While some level of growth might continue in coming decades, the boom era of seemingly unlimited material throughput we became accustomed to in the middle of the twentieth century is unlikely to ever return again as we enter a fundamentally new age of diminishing returns<\/p>\n

These are the conclusions of a new working paper<\/a> by leading ecological economist Professor Tim Jackson, Director of the University of Surrey\u2019s Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).<\/p>\n

And the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is taking notes.<\/p>\n

An earlier draft of the paper, notes Jackson, was \u201cprepared as input into the UK Global Strategic Trends Review\u201d, a forecasting research programme run by the MoD\u2019s Defence Concepts and Doctrines Centre (DCDC), which every few years produces an updated Global Strategic Trends<\/em> report for the MoD and wider UK government. Jackson also acknowledges feedback from MoD officials in revising that draft to create the concurrent version.<\/p>\n

Jackson is former Economics Commissioner for the UK government\u2019s Sustainable Development Commission. From 2010 to 2014, he was Director of the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, funded by the UK Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Scottish Government, and the Economic and Social Research Council. He also advised many other government departments, and held advisory roles for the UN Environment Programme, the UN\u2019s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the UN Industrial Development Organissation, the European Environment Agency, the European Parliament, and the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Govt economic advisor warns British defence planners that growth is\u00a0ending Study charts the protracted collapse of industrial economic growth and why prosperity must be built on a new economic model. And no, the Singularity won\u2019t save\u00a0us. Source: Art by Cornfreak Economic growth isn\u2019t coming back. While some level of growth might continue in coming decades, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93,20783,240,6113,14273,14695,15672],"class_list":["post-35747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-britain","tag-centre-for-understanding-sustainable-prosperity","tag-economic-growth","tag-insurge-intelligence","tag-medium","tag-naffed-ahmed","tag-tim-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35748,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747\/revisions\/35748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}