Showing posts with label environmental economics ecological economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environmental economics ecological economics. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2007

What the Stern Report didn't mention . . . .

. . . . was that combatting climate change is economically sensible- yet involves economic heresy as the oxymoron of perpetual growth within a finite space must be abandoned. There's loads of good sheet in this report.

"In the light of these considerations, there is no fundamental reason
to pursue economic growth as a primary objective of policy, or to
consider it as the key indicator of economic performance. Economic
growth does not, in itself, make people’s lives any better."