sj_zeroI'm of two minds in this regard. On one hand, the people who are pushing for "a growing economy" usually are worried about rich people's yacht money. OTOH, the economy makes things like the ways we feed ourselves, and the way we heat our homes, and other stuff we need to not die.
It seems like too many people are focused on the evils of the former without considering the evils of harming the latter. Having to choose between freezing to death and starving to death isn't a good place to be.
Dianne Hackborn@sj_zero But I'd say a big part of this is that almost always when these statements are made about something vs. the economy, it isn't really about the economy, it is about rich people.
If the concern was really the economy, the statement would be very different.
For example, climate change is a direct threat to the real economy. The question is, "how do we address climate change as quickly as possible so it doesn't harm our economy even more?"