Achieving Post-Growth Well-Being Within Planetary Boundaries

* Article: Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Kallis, Giorgos et al. The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 9, Issue 1, e62 - e78

URL = https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

Abstract

"There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global North and the Global South."