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When Green Growth Is Not Enough - Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency (Paperback)
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When Green Growth Is Not Enough - Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency (Paperback)
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Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst
extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough,
Anders Hayden analyzes the political battle between three competing
approaches to this question and how it has played out in Canada and
Britain. Defenders of the "business-as-usual" approach reject
climate action as too costly and in conflict with economic growth,
while downplaying the severity of climate change. Supporters of
ecological modernization, or "green growth," on the other hand, aim
to use technology and efficiency to delink economic expansion from
emissions and find business opportunities through environmental
action. While mainstream debate has focused on these two pro-growth
models, Hayden pays particular attention to the struggles and
limited inroads of a third, more radical perspective: the idea of
sufficiency, which challenges the continued growth of production
and consumption in the already-affluent global North and asks, how
much is enough? Drawing on interviews, participation in
climate-related events, and analysis of key documents, Hayden shows
the role these paradigms have played in Britain, one of the world's
leaders in climate reform, and in Canada, a nation at the bottom of
international climate change rankings. Rich in detail, When Green
Growth Is Not Enough is a lively account of the theory and
real-world politics of climate action.
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