[MCN] Economic growth is incompatible with, among other things, biodiversity conservation

[Lance Olsen]

News Release 14-Apr-2020
Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
A study involving more than 20 specialists in conservation ecology and ecological economics highlights the contradiction between economic growth and biodiversity conservation.Adopting limits to international trade in resources or reducing and sharing the work, are some of the seven alternative proposals that the article notes to stop biodiversity loss. It is proposed that IPBES considers a trajectory beyond growth by proposing biodiversity scenarios in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

JOURNAL
Conservation Letters
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uadb-egi041420.php>Full release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uadb-egi041420.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uadb-egi041420.php>

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“Once confined to the margins, the ecological critique of economic growth has gained widespread attention. At a United Nations climate-change summit in September, the teen-age Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg declared, ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!’ ” 

<<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth>>>

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