The Global North Responsibility Is to Get Our Own House in Order

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Tim Jackson: Are enough key decision makers pushing for degrowth or post-growth future? He says there are two conversations happening in COP 27, which suggests that there is more room for this conversation. And the global north responsibility is not to stand on a soapbox and point at poor countries, he adds. TheGuardian has launched a brilliant new podcast, Pop Culture with Chante Joseph.

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 our 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. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod