It is high time to end the legacy of the Meadows report (1972) on the limits to growth.
Although its conclusions are false and clearly contradicted by the facts, it still deludes decay theorists by the link it allows to establish between growth, energy consumption, depletion of raw materials and gas emission. greenhouse effect (GHG).
If it is true that this link is attested for the first industrial revolutions of the last three centuries, it has become false today in the most advanced countries, those which open the way to a reconciliation between innovation, growth and protection of the environment. 'environment.
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As shown by one of our best economists, Eric Chaney, in an article published last September ("Critique of decreasing reason", easy to find on the net), on the three essential points to which the ideologies of degrowth are based. , there are in the countries which associate ...
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