{"id":58908,"date":"2021-08-06T07:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58908"},"modified":"2021-08-30T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:20:21","slug":"beyond-the-growth-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58908","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Growth Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For 30 years, environmental economist Tim Jackson has been at the fore of international debates on sustainability. Over a decade since his hugely influential\u00a0Prosperity Without Growth<\/em>, the world is both much changed \u2013 reeling from a pandemic and with unprecedented prominence for environmental issues \u2013 and maddeningly the same, still locked in a growth-driven destructive spiral. What does Jackson\u2019s latest contribution,\u00a0Post Growth<\/em>, have to say about the way out of the dilemma?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tim Jackson\u2019s new book,\u00a0Post Growth: Life after Capitalism<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Polity Press, 2021), follows his ground-breaking\u00a0Prosperity without Growth\u00a0<\/em>(2009, updated in 2017). Whilst the previous work reflected, partly, the austerity-driven answers to the Great Recession,\u00a0Post Growth<\/em>\u00a0falls into a different world. It is a world where the recognition of climate change as the greatest challenge facing humankind is moving towards consensus. In the United States, even the Republican Party\u2019s younger members are\u00a0looking for ways out of the corner<\/a>\u00a0into which the party has manoeuvred itself. It is also a world where the Covid-19 pandemic has not only taken many lives and destroyed many livelihoods, but \u2013 via the need for state intervention \u2013 has also dealt a blow to the gung-ho neoliberalism that is one of the main culprits of financial chaos and the looming breakdown of planetary\u00a0life-support systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

US President Joe Biden\u2019s rescue plan as well as the EU\u2019s Next Generation pandemic recovery fund are questioning the free-market paradigm that has held sway the since the Reagan-Thatcher area, and that had trickled down into centre-left politics as well. In parallel, from the Paris Agreement to the European Commission\u2019s European Green Deal, environmental concerns that were condescendingly smiled upon until recently have now moved centre stage. The newly discovered role for the state and the emerging environmental consciousness might not be discussed at length in Jackson\u2019s new book, but they are the backdrop against which it is to be read.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Growth Imperative For 30 years, environmental economist Tim Jackson has been at the fore of international debates on sustainability. Over a decade since his hugely influential\u00a0Prosperity Without Growth, the world is both much changed \u2013 reeling from a pandemic and with unprecedented prominence for environmental issues \u2013 and maddeningly the same, still locked […]<\/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":[20380,391,31589,641,769,15672],"class_list":["post-58908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-green-european-journal","tag-growth","tag-olaf-bruns","tag-post-growth","tag-sustainability","tag-tim-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908","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=58908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58909,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908\/revisions\/58909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}