Challenges of Green Growth and the Need for Degrowth

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This chapter explores the drawbacks of green growth, questioning the accuracy of GDP per capita as a measure of human progress and highlighting the unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels. It also discusses the challenges of maintaining economic growth in the face of declining oil production and increasing debt, and advocates for the concept of degrowth to address these issues.

Earlier this week there was a livestream debate highlighting the key points of the Green Growth and DeGrowth perspectives - this week's Frankly adds a 3rd 'growth critical' perspective - that modern society has a metabolism and momentum and will grow - in non-green ways - until we can't. This is a critical third category that should be included in these discussions, despite its 'tougher sell'.

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