Vækstens dilemma

Før klimatopmødet:
Vækstens dilemma
- klimabalance, retfærdighed og velfærd uden økonomisk vækst?

Forelæsning og debat med:
Professor Tim Jackson
UK Sustainable Development Commission
Hovedforfatter til rapporten 'Prosperity without growth'

Tid: Onsdag den 14. oktober kl. 19
Sted: Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg.
Mødet foregår på engelsk

Program:
* Velkomst
* Forelæsning v. professor Tim Jackson
* To opponenter:
Professor Peter Birch Sørensen, Københavns Universitet
Klimaøkonom Kirsten Halsnæs, DTU Klima Center
* Debat med publikum

Hvad er det der er så forfærdelig ved at bruge jorden og dens ressourser

Your Sustainable Development Commission is just a waste of taxpayers' money, established by the Government as a gesture to environmentalists, hoping to give the impression of concern in order to attract their votes. The SDC is never going to be taken seriously by any politicians (or any realists). For the foreseeable future Labour politicians have far more important things to worry about, such as how they will earn a living after the next general election.
It is quite clear that the "political and policy-making agenda" of Gordon Brown, Barack Obama and all of the other world leaders includes neither "Prosperity Without Growth" nor "redefining prosperity". They have no intention of "challenging the overriding priority traditionally given to economic growth"., I quote from Gordon Brown's speech in Davos, which, as you acknowledge in your Green New Deals blog "... mapped out the territory ..: ".. QUOTE: we must use the imperative of building a low-carbon economy as a route to creating growth and jobs, the path that will see us through the current downturn .. we have begun the long walk down that road. In the European Union's economic recovery plan, in President Obama's green jobs package, in the stimulus packages of China, Japan, Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, Spain and Denmark, So I believe that, through these measures, we can engineer a technological transformation that will be one of this century's key drivers of economic growth". UNQUOTE
Note the inseparable link between the words "economy", "growth" and "jobs" - no sign of any redefinition of prosperity there!! The feigned concern expressed by politicians about carbon emissions is for reasons other than climate change