{"id":55102,"date":"2020-09-21T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55102"},"modified":"2020-09-21T06:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:31:11","slug":"is-the-green-deal-a-card-shuffle-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55102","title":{"rendered":"Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?<\/a><\/h3>\n

(NOTE; this is not an analysis of the US New Green Deal, it is about the “green growth” narrative with the European Green Deal as the point of departure.)<\/p>\n

The European Green Deal<\/a>\u00a0is a \u201dgrowth strategy that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are reasons to discuss if the vision of the European Green Deal is desirable: why should it be a goal to be \u201ccompetitive\u201d or \u201dmodern\u201d? But let\u2019s buy into the narrative and ask: is the vision possible? Is \u201dgreen growth\u201d as expressed in the Green Deal or the Sustainable Development Goals even possible?<\/p>\n

In a recent paper<\/a>\u00a0in New Political Economy, Jason Hickel and Giorgios Kallis do a good job in illuminating many of the discussions and concepts involved in the Green Growth debate. Their overall conclusion is that \u201dgreen growth theory \u2013 in terms of resource use \u2013 lacks empirical support\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0They note three caveats of their own conclusions. First, it is possible that \u201dit is reasonable to expect that green growth could be accomplished at very low GDP growth rates, i.e. less than 1 per cent per year\u201d. Second, conclusions are based on the existing relationship between GDP and material throughput, but one might argue that it is theoretically possible to break the existing relationship between GDP and material throughput altogether. Third, the aggregate material footprint indicator obscures the possibility of shifting from high-impact resources to low-impact resources. Meanwhile, Hickel and Kallis also point out that material footprints needs to be scaled down significantly from present levels; to be truly green, green growth requires not just any degree of absolute decoupling, but rapid absolute decoupling.<\/p>\n

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Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick? (NOTE; this is not an analysis of the US New Green Deal, it is about the “green growth” narrative with the European Green Deal as the point of departure.) The European Green Deal\u00a0is a \u201dgrowth strategy that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[279,284,16961,353,23033,5478,4549,391,27802,17122,24508,681],"class_list":["post-55102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-garden-earth","tag-gdp","tag-giorgos-kallis","tag-green-growth","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-growth","tag-gunnar-rundgren","tag-jason-hickel","tag-new-green-deal","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55102","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=55102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55103,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55102\/revisions\/55103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}