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💡 Is our obsession with economic growth leading us to collapse? Economist and research Gaya Herrington joins us to discuss why GDP is a flawed metric, how degrowth can lead to a thriving well-being economy, and why businesses must prioritize resilience over efficiency. Tune in for a critical conversation on reshaping our economic future.

Le mouvement de la décroissance gagne rapidement en popularité en Europe. Il préconise de renoncer à la croissance économique. Mais sans croissance, pouvons-nous encore défendre nos valeurs et nos intérêts sur la scène internationale ? Richard Wouters a interrogé Gaya Herrington, expert en développement durable, sur les implications géopolitiques d’un modèle économique sans croissance.

In the 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth(LtG), the authors concluded that if humanity kept pursuing economic growth without regard for environmental and socialcosts, global society would experience as harpdecline(i.e.,collapse) in economic, social, and environmental conditions within thetwenty-firstcentury.