COP27: Is it time to rethink endless economic growth?
The Guardian Science Weekly #COP27 special with CUSP director Prof Tim Jackson
10 November 2022
From the The Guardian website:
A key goal of governments around the world is economic growth—continually increasing production and consumption to keep GDP rising. But can our economies grow on a rapidly warming planet with finite resources? According to a recent UN report, the only way left to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”.
In the third Cop27 special, Ian Sample speaks to ecological economist Tim Jackson about the myth of eternal growth, other ways to think about progress and prosperity, and what an economic system in balance with our planetary system might look like.
The full episode of the Science Weekly COP27 series is available via The Guardian website.
