Mastodawn

“We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution. ... At the same time, droughts, megafires, floods and heatwaves remind us that our economies are pushing the planet beyond its limits.

These are not separate crises. They are symptoms of an economic model that has reached the end of the road.”

#ClimateCrisis #Poverty #EconomicGrowth #Economics #NewEconomicModel

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/economists-maths-growth-doomed-strategy-un-agencies-political-leaders

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

The Guardian

Ellen Pear Jan 1, 2023

We need a #neweconomicmodel #kateraworth https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/26/well-being-these-countries-are-looking-beyond-gdp-and-economic-growth.html

The world's in a 'polycrisis' — and these countries want to quash it by looking beyond GDP

For a small but growing network of countries, the world's go-to metric of economic health is no longer fit for purpose.

CNBC