{"id":12914,"date":"2015-08-14T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12914"},"modified":"2015-08-14T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T12:04:49","slug":"why-economic-growth-may-be-key-to-saving-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-economic-growth-may-be-key-to-saving-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Economic Growth May Be Key To Saving The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081415_1201_WhyEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Relentless consumption promoted by economic growth is killing the planet, or so some people argue. Adam Posen outlined why, in fact, economic growth is the key to saving the planet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cleaner planet requires that unclean industries are overhauled.<\/li>\n<li>This is easier to do if there&#8217;s economic growth. A dirty power plant might be shut down but industrialists and workers can hope for a different, brighter future in a new industry.<\/li>\n<li>Growth also promotes efficiency \u2013 doing more with less \u2013 key to helping the planet.<\/li>\n<li>The empirical evidence backs this up \u2013 over the decades it is economies that were growing such as Japan, Germany, and China, that have led the fight to reduce carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article fleshes out other reasons for the importance of economic growth, and provides a rebuttal by Tim Jackson who argues that low or no growth is the key to stability. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/worldif.economist.com\/article\/9\/debate-the-case-for-slower-growth?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/worldif.economist.com\/article\/9\/debate-the-case-for-slower-growth?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relentless consumption promoted by economic growth is killing the planet, or so some people argue. Adam Posen outlined why, in fact, economic growth is the key to saving the planet: A cleaner planet requires that unclean industries are overhauled. This is easier to do if there&#8217;s economic growth. A dirty power plant might be shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081415_1201_WhyEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}