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What to Do About the Detritovores?

In: Economic Growth and Societal Collapse

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  • Wim Naudé

    (RWTH Aachen University)

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This chapter delves deeper into the Cornucopian position given the fact that human society has become Detritovores, being greatly dependent on fossil fuel energy—an input into economic growth and GDP that is, as was already mentioned, largely ignored in economic growth theory. The use of its fossil fuel bonanza, a “carbon pulse” as Hagens and others have called it, and the economic growth it has enabled, has overshot planetary boundaries. The Cornucopian response is embodied in the approach of Green Growth, at the time of writing the mainstream global approach to sustainable economic growth and the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change.

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  • Wim Naudé, 2023. "What to Do About the Detritovores?," Springer Books, in: Economic Growth and Societal Collapse, chapter 0, pages 39-68, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-45582-7_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45582-7_3
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