When Green Growth Is Not Enough: Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency

Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough, Anders Hayden analyzes the political battle between three competing approaches to this question and how it has played out in Canada and Britain.

Defenders of the "business-as-usual" approach reject climate action as too costly and in conflict with economic growth, while downplaying the severity o...