Das gehört ja eigentlich hier rein:
Alles anzeigenAutoren oder Autorin von "Decoupling Debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability". https://eeb.org/blibrary/decoupling-debunked/
(Unter den Autoren sind auch welche die die deutsche Sprache können.)
Auf diese wissenschaftliche Publikation hat mich Ulrike Herrmann aufmerksam gemacht. Die Kernaussage geht aus der Überschrift schon hervor. Eine umfassende Trennung von Wachstum und daraus entstehenden Umweltschäden ist nicht möglich. Autoren und Autorin empfehlen Entscheidungsträgern den Abschied nicht nur von grünem Wachstum sondern von Wirtschaftswachstum allgemein.
Grüße,
Jan
Aus der Studie:
(1) Rising energy expenditure, (2) rebound effects, (3) problem shifting, (4) the underestimated impact of services, (5) limited potential of recycling, (6) insufficient and inappropriate technological progress, and (7) cost shifting can, each individually, and even more all together, compromise or even dismiss the possibility of “green growth.”
The insight here is not that efficiency improvements are unnecessary (and in that sense, we support most of the decoupling-targeted policies advocated by UNEP in their 2014a report), but instead that it is theoretically and empirically unrealistic to expect those to absolutely, globally, and permanently delink a constantly growing economic metabolism from its biophysical base.
Given the historical correlation of GDP and environmental pressures as well as the required technological improvements needed for a sufficiently large and fast reduction in resource use and environmental degradation, relying on decoupling alone to solve environmental problems appears to be an extremely risky and irresponsible bet.
Framing issues of social-ecological justice with the concept of decoupling is like trying to cut a tree with a spoon: it is likely to be a long attempt and most likely to fail in the end.[...]
As argued by Fletcher and Rammel (2017), decoupling acts as a distracting fantasy that warrants a (continuously more) destructive path with both the promise of success and demonstration of its impossibility deferred into the future. But as decoupling fails to materialise, natural resources deplete and ecosystems collapse. In that sense, decoupling is not an opportunity but a threat.
Ultimately, until GDP is actually decoupled from environmental pressures, any additional production will require a larger effort in reductions of resource and impact intensity to stay away from resource conflicts and ecological breakdown. In that sense, trying to reduce impacts while growing makes as little sense as trying to brake while accelerating in front of an obstacle.[...]
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Parrique T., Barth J., Briens F., C. Kerschner, Kraus-Polk A., Kuokkanen A., Spangenberg J.H: Decoupling Debunked - Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability, European Environmental Bureau, 2019 , S. 58-59 (-> PDF S. 59-60)
Aber wenn eine Handvoll Theoretiker behaupten, fortgsetztes quantitatives Wachstum (auch in "grün") und Umwelt-, bzw. Klimaschutz seien nicht miteinander vereinbar, dann hat das natürlich wie immer...
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