Degrowth

In der Wissenschaft herrscht inzwischen eine große Einigkeit, dass Wirtschaftswachstum an sich kein sinnvolles wirtschaftspolitisches Ziel ist. Denn Wirtschaftswachstum kann immer nur Mittel zum Zweck sein. Meistens sind die Zwecke (Voll-)Beschäftigung, höheres Einkommen, mehr privater Konsum oder höhere Staatseinnahmen. Es geht also nie um Wirtschaftswachstum per se, sondern darum, was mit Wachstum gesamtgesellschaftlich erreicht werden kann.

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McNeil and Barnes (2025) conducted a survey of 2051 respondents in the UK. The goal was to find out the respondents attitudes on the existence of a tradeoff between the environment and economic growth and their priorities in such a tradeoff.

When the global population does decline sometime this century, it will be the first time since the Black Death, 700 years ago. But this time, it will be driven by human choice -- specifically, the choice of women globally to not have so many children.

This is more about growth and its folly in real time.

...the authors caution that the current pace of decoupling is insufficient to meet the global climate target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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UB: To start with, we tried to argue with our book against a very dynamic treatment dealing with ecological crisis: what we call green capitalism, or the green economy, or ecological modernization of capitalism. Which is: we have a problem with the combustion engine so it should be the electric engine. This will not be sufficient, we know, because the resources have to come from the South and there is still the space problem.

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