Book Chapter10.1093/oso/9780198861584.003.0006
Ecological breakdown
Jostein Hauge
- 26 Sep 2023
- pp 119-148
TL;DR: Ecological breakdown due to industrialization and economic growth. Degrowth offers a more accurate reflection of ecological sustainability but faces economic challenges. Policy pathways to bridge the perspectives include targeting and scaling down ecologically damaging industries, incentivizing community-centred living, and focusing on scale-down measures at those responsible for ecological breakdown.
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Abstract: Abstract Industrialization and economic growth have been major factors in causing ecological breakdown. International climate agreements even have benchmarks to compare today’s levels of global warming to ‘pre-industrial levels’ because this is the last time we can confidently say that we lived within planetary boundaries. In this chapter, I compare two perspectives that offer different growth and industrialization pathways in the age of ecological breakdown: green paradigms and degrowth. Degrowth more accurately and honestly highlights the contradictions between growth and ecological sustainability but faces more economic trade-offs and practical hurdles from a policy perspective. In light of this, I highlight three policy pathways where the perspectives can meet: (i) target and scale down ecologically damaging industries and activities, (ii) incentivize community-centred living rather than individual-centred living, and (iii) focus scale-down measures at those responsible for ecological breakdown (e.g. the rich and the global North rather than the poor and the global South).
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