The Myths of Perpetual Growth

An objective of growth alone is not just neutral on value questions. That mindset and economic model is actively hostile to a more equal society and a more habitable planet, because it’s always more profitable to externalise your costs onto society and onto the environment. That’s what Tory Ministers actively seek when they push “pro-growth deregulation”.

As Bobby Kennedy [said], gross domestic product “measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” Let’s instead decide, as a society, what makes life worthwhile and start from there.