68. Is degrowth a viable path to sustainability? (Jeroen van den Bergh)
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The episode discusses the concept of degrowth as a potential path to sustainability in wealthy societies.
Few ideas are as deeply embedded in how we run our societies as economic growth. Across the political spectrum growth is treated as self-evidently good, and the debate tends to be a tug-of-war between those who want to keep growing and those who argue we urgently need to do the opposite. Degrowth is the argument that wealthy societies should deliberately shrink their economies to stay within the planet's limits. Most of us can probably sense that there's no end to the expansion of human activ...
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Guest: Jeroen van den Bergh
Topics covered
- degrowth
- sustainability
- economic growth
- environmental limits
- wealthy societies
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