poverty eradication’.
Yet the current debate about
a Green Economy differs from the discussion and
strategies around sustainable development in the
early 1990s.
Firstly, today the technological base
of a Green Economy is much more developed.
Secondly, in...
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poverty eradication’.
Yet the current debate about
a Green Economy differs from the discussion and
strategies around sustainable development in the
early 1990s.
Firstly, today the technological base
of a Green Economy is much more developed.
Secondly, in the capitalist centres the Green Economy is
hailed as a solution to the deep-rooted (economic
and financial) crises.
The Green Economy appears
most palatable precisely due to the ‘constructive
force of the crisis’.
As usual with such debates, the forces responsible
for the crisis are identified as the beacon of hope:
states and especially markets and capital, as well as
the orientation towards growth and competitiveness.
With the aid of the Green Economy the driving
forces for social and ecological disastrous capitalism are not called into question; on the contrary,
they are to be used for a green conversion.
Critique of the Green Economy
ThEsis 1: The strict decoupling of
economic growth and environmental destruction is not pos
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