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#Irish #President condemns ‘obsession’ with economic growth
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/04/28/president-condemns-obsession-with-economic-growth/
<< True, but it is not just economists.

Most of Ireland is deeply committed to ignoring or dismissing the ongoing ecological crisis. Indeed, by many pollution metrics, per capita, Ireland is near, or is, the worst of EU states.

By being small, we have escaped the international damnation that our polluting ways deserve - our reckoning is long overdue.
#Ireland #environment #green #pollution

President condemns ‘obsession’ with economic growth

In reception for think tank Tasc, Michael D Higgins condemned ‘neo-liberalism’ and urged country to ‘rebalance economy, ecology and ethics’

The Irish Times
Apr 30, 2023 at 12:45pmWeb
Show threadStuart D NeilsonApr 30, 2023

@kasilas A posse (what's the collective noun for economists?) of economics professors sound like tantrum-prone toddlers in the #SundayBusinessPost today - including quotes from two who vocally spew exactly the growth crap the President was denouncing.

I get their "not reflective of modern economics" claim, but the President perfectly captured the ranty, growth-obsessed, neoliberal, egotistical reality of #Ireland's loudest economists on social media.
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/economists-round-on-president-over-lazy-and-uninformed-spiel/

Economists round on President over ‘lazy’ and ‘uninformed spiel’

Michael D Higgins claimed economists in Ireland were ‘stuck in an inexorable growth narrative’

Business Post