"Growth" means "more"
GDP growth means more goods and services,
always using more material and non-renewable resources.
Growth may or may not generate "jobs".
But Growth does not mean "jobs".
"Jobs" is not a valid reason to continue Business at Usual and deplete the environment.
"Dematerialized" growth is nonsense sublime,
in conflict with the fundamentals of economics,
"the study of the distribution of scarce resources".
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"Sustainability"
means human society
in the balance with nature.
The balances are maintained if a resource is not consumed at a higher rate than needed for regeneration.
Most resources are non-renewable on a human time scale.
So here we must judge very carefully with which speed we may reasonably use these.
All resources,
regenerative
and
non-renewable,
are
over-exploited.
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"Environment"
frequently means "Business" - for business, politics, academia and non-government organisations.
Manifold are the models, propositions, and illusions about saving the world by business-as-usual less some measures on the margins.
Ecoglobe tries to cut through the "Business" maze of complications, contradictions and ideologies.
We simplify where possible and rectify where necessary, independent, committed to reality. A Glossary
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"Sustainable development"
excludes economic growth
unless
development in poor areas is offset by contraction in overdeveloped areas.
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Population growth
is never sustainable.
Population growth always increases environmental stress and depletion.
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