The climate crisis will never be solved until humanity breaks its addiction to economic growth, experts say…
Nanaimo, a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, has implemented an innovative system balancing the social needs of the community with its environmental impact. | Via Ballard
By Anna Aglietta
At the root of the climate crisis lies an economy dependent on profits from unfettered growth, mostly through resource extraction, experts say. But, as world leaders wrap up at COP28 in Dubai, discussing how to fast-track the global push towards clean energy, few seem to be talking about the elephant in the room: endless GDP growth.
“Capitalism, powered by the availability of cheap and abundant fossil energy, has indeed resulted in unprecedented and global biosphere disruption,” writes Mike Joy from Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand in the Conversation. “From an ecologist’s perspective, degrowth is inevitable on our current trajectory.”