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The Importance of Being Agnostic About Growth
We need to create our economy so it's no longer dependent on endless growth. The future is unseen, and there are many different ways we can organize our economies. It's too early to give up the possibility of decoupling. We've got some decoupling and we need all the decoupling we can get. But we are not moving anything fast enough at the speed and scale required. I'm given the size of that planetary challenge - if we were going to create an world with shrinking incomes in 75% to put it to a global average...it's difficult for me not to feel that's not really consistent with democratic politics"