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Can We Live Well Without Economic Growth? - Part 2

Intelligence Squared

The End of Private Jets, the End of Luxury Air Travel and the Ending of Cruise Ships

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I think that we need to distinguish between a very reasonable debate... About how you grow, how material is that and how much do you chase GDP. The developing world, it drives them completely bananas... Because they say, we have a right to the sort of life that you have here. I doubt very much that we'd now be in a land of milk and honey... Where all of the things that we want, it could all automatically be produced. So it requires tough choices. And if people in this audience today, do they feel under taxed? I suspect quite a lot of them would probably say no. Things are tough and a lot of things were doing 10 years ago can't do

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