Beyond Growth: Building A Wellbeing Economy Can Help Us Avoid Collapse
Why, despite all our innovative capabilities, do problems like poverty, hunger, and environmental destruction continue to plague humanity?
Why, despite astonishing technological achievements in renewable energy and resource efficiency, is global fossil fuel use at an all time high – as is our ecological footprint?
And why, despite being responsible for the majority of that footprint, has wellbeing in high-income countries been stagnant, if not declining, for decades?
The answer is simple. Solving poverty, caring for the environment, or fostering wellbeing is not the ultimate goal of our current economic system. Its goal is growth.