Decoupling pessimism and the dilemma of growth. A reply to Jackson et al. (2024)

Rikard H. Warlenius

Ecological Economics, 2025, vol. 232, issue C

Abstract: Are most degrowth/postgrowth advocates “decoupling pessimists”, in the sense that they are critical about the possibilities to decouple carbon emissions from economic growth quickly and sufficiently? So I have claimed, but to my surprise, Tim Jackson, Jason Hickel, and Giorgos Kallis (2024) denounce that they are and instead claim that “most postgrowth scholars readily accept the need for high levels of decoupling”. Despite what is stated in Hickel and Kallis (2020) and how the article has been interpreted, they now further claim that there are no “definable limits to decoupling”.

Keywords: Decoupling; Growth; Degrowth; Postgrowth; Limits to Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108580

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