So much of the analysis of how we respond to climate change assumes that economic growth and emissions reduction are compatible goals. But is this wishful thinking? To question maximising economic growth as an organising principle of society seems close to economic heresy.
Enter Tim Jackson, a professor of Sustainable Development and author of the book, "Prosperity Without Growth". He argues it's time to re-think the very notion of growth and what it means to be genuinely prosperous.
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