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The decoupling debate: can economic growth really continue without emission increases?

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Mark H Burton

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2015

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Degrowth.de Blog

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Deutsch

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By Mark Burton Most ecological economists argue that continued economic growth is incompatible with ecological safety. That is to say continued increases in Gross Domestic Product, (GDP and also Gross Value Added, GVA) cannot happen while reducing ecological impacts in general, and climate change-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in particular. It isn’t a popular message,


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