Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth

Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth

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  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Per Espen Stoknes
  • ISBN:0262543850
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Summary

How we can achieve healthy growth--more regenerative than destructive, restoring equity rather than exacerbating inequalities。

In Tomorrow's Economy, Per Espen Stoknes reframes the hot-button issue of economic growth。 Going beyond the usual dialectic of pro-growth versus anti-growth, Stoknes calls for healthy growth。 Healthy economic growth is more regenerative than destructive, repairs problems rather than greenwashing them, and restores equity rather than exacerbating global inequalities。 Stoknes--a psychologist, economist, climate strategy researcher, and green-tech entrepreneur--argues that we have the tools to achieve healthy growth, but our success depends on transformations in government practices and individual behavior。 Stoknes provides a compass to guide us toward the mindset, mechanisms, and possibilities of healthy growth。

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Richard Marney

A must read!Climate change “delayers” are as bad as climate change “deniers” admonishes the author。 He highlights the need to address today the threat and not by playing the game of promising to achieve some hard to define goal years into the future。 The book discusses the interrelationships amongst growth, income and wealth equality, and the productivity of environmental resources to achieve fair, healthy green growth。 The innovation (of many) is his detailed methodology to measure at the enter A must read!Climate change “delayers” are as bad as climate change “deniers” admonishes the author。 He highlights the need to address today the threat and not by playing the game of promising to achieve some hard to define goal years into the future。 The book discusses the interrelationships amongst growth, income and wealth equality, and the productivity of environmental resources to achieve fair, healthy green growth。 The innovation (of many) is his detailed methodology to measure at the enterprise and the broader macroeconomy-levels the degree of green and gray (the dark side) growth。 The optimal outcome is green and fair (declining income inequality) growth。 The opposite - and modern Russia is an example - is “degrowth” (declining GDP), increasing inequality, and an economic model that degrades the environment and contributes to global warming。 The author acknowledges that achieving zero carbon levels is daunting。 Limiting carbon footprints and increasing the productivity of the carbon we do generate is the practical approach。 Each person can contribute!!!For all, send the link to this book (MIT press, but available on the usual on line sources) to your elected representatives and local news outlets。 Suggest they read the book!!!!!https://mitpress。mit。edu/books/tomorr。。。😎😎 。。。more

Heather

This is a really interesting book that describes how we can have a thriving economy and live in greener, more equal societies。 The book is sometimes technical in nature and does a great job giving real examples and tactics to ensure a business, individual, or institution is moving towards healthy, green, growth and limiting its impacts on climate change。 I definitely recommend this book for anyone who wants to know how the economy and climate change intertwine, and what we can do about it!