[MCN] Wildlife biologists proposed a statement on effects of economic growth. Ecologists did the same. Both got voted down by colleagues

[Lance Olsen]

“Because the decimating factor of economic growth eliminates welfare factors for virtually all imperiled species via the principle of competitive exclusion, economic growth may be classified as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation. The wildlife profession has been virtually silent about this limiting factor, suggesting that the profession has been laboring in futility. …. The Wildlife Society should lead the natural resources professions in developing a position on economic growth.”

Brian Czech. Economic growth as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2000, 28(1):4–15

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"The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization with about 10,000 members  .... As one might expect, it can be difficult to produce position statements and other documents that represent a consensus among all members of such a diverse society. A case in point is ESA’s recent position statement on economic growth (www.esa.org/pao/ecogrowth_statement.php <http://www.esa.org/pao/ecogrowth_statement.php>), which has already elicited a broad spectrum of passionate responses from members."

Alison Power “Ecology and economic growth: the challenge of building consensus.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: (2009) Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 287-287.

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“… energy consumption in 1960 was about half what it is now [1970]…. Surely we had a civilized country then [1960], with roads, electricity, entertainment, and so on. …. Have we, by doubling our energy consumption, doubled our happiness?”

Kimon Valaskakis, Peter S. Sindell, J. Graham Smith, and Iris Fitzpatrick-Martin. The Conserver Society. 1970. Harper & Row.

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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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“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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