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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Social and Ecological Limits to Growth
verfasst von : Grzegorz W. Kolodko
Erschienen in: Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The world must slow down. This may sound bizarre at a time of crisis but when the present one is over, to avoid the next one being even bigger, we’d better not try to aim for an exaggerated pace of growth as this can trigger an utter loss of balance. The rate and limits to economic growth is the fifth of the Great Issues for the Future. Why? Perhaps technological progress will indeed prove to be so powerful that we can walk into the future the same way we went through the past: more and faster, but with a falling material intensity and declining energy consumption? Perhaps the economic and environmental Cassandras are wrong to foretell that we will run short of one thing or another?