At the COP24 conference in Poland, countries are aiming to finalise the implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement. The task has extra gravity in the wake of the recent IPCC report declaring that we have just 12 years to take the action needed to limit global warming to that infamous 1.5ᵒC target. Although the conference itself is open to selected state representatives only, many see t...
One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
Die Legende vom Green Growth beruht auf drei simplen Grundprinzipien: (1) Steigerungen der Ressourceneffizienz, (2) geschlossene Stoffkreisläufe und (3) regenerative Energien. Doch trotz eines Trommelfeuers an Klimaschutzinnovationen nahmen und nehmen die ökologischen Schäden im Energiebereich stetig zu. Die ökologische Modernisierung offenbart sich als Geschichte des technologischen Scheiterns sowie der räumlichen, zeitlichen oder systemischen [...]
