{"id":38369,"date":"2018-09-27T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38369"},"modified":"2018-09-27T06:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:50:35","slug":"why-growth-cant-be-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38369","title":{"rendered":"Why Growth Can\u2019t Be Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Growth Can\u2019t Be Green<\/a><\/h3>\n

New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment\u2014but it\u2019s hard to do both.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian<\/em> and the New York Times<\/em>, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish stocks and insect populations. These crises are being driven by global economic growth, and its accompanying consumption, which is destroying the Earth\u2019s biosphere and blowing past key planetary boundaries that scientists say must be respected to avoid triggering collapse.<\/p>\n

Many policymakers have responded by pushing for what has come to be called \u201cgreen growth.\u201d All we need to do, they argue, is invest in more efficient technology and introduce the right incentives, and we\u2019ll be able to keep growing while simultaneously reducing our impact on the natural world, which is already at an unsustainable level. In technical terms, the goal is to achieve \u201cabsolute decoupling\u201d of GDP from the total use of natural resources, according to the U.N. definition.<\/p>\n

It sounds like an elegant solution to an otherwise catastrophic problem. There\u2019s just one hitch: New evidence suggests that green growth isn\u2019t the panacea everyone has been hoping for. In fact, it isn\u2019t even possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

New evidence suggests that green growth isn\u2019t the panacea everyone has been hoping for. In fact, it isn\u2019t even possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Green growth first became a buzz phrase in 2012 at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. In the run-up to the conference, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the U.N. Environment Program all produced reports promoting green growth. Today, it is a core plank of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n

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Why Growth Can\u2019t Be Green New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment\u2014but it\u2019s hard to do both. Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian and the New York Times, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish […]<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[111,16632,5478,391,17122],"class_list":["post-38369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-capitalism","tag-ecological-collapse","tag-green-growth","tag-growth","tag-jason-hickel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369","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=38369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38370,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions\/38370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}