Should we be sceptical in the face of calls for degrowth

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ID22189757
AuthorsFakhri Issaoui (0000-0002-4261-3361, King Khalid University), Issaoui Fakhri, Mohammad Alqahtani (0000-0001-9600-1443, King Khalid University), Mourad Guesmi (University of Jendouba), Akram Jamee (0000-0002-7688-2383, Tunis El Manar University)
Year2024
Volume8
Issue5
Pages4292
Publication date2024-05-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Infrastructure Policy and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2572-7923 • E-ISSN: 2572-7931
PublisherEnPress Publisher (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24294/jipd.v8i5.4292
OpenAlexW4396973973
LanguageEN
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In recent years, an ‘international’ unanimity has been reached as to the importance of collective collaboration to avoid the negative effects of climate change. This requires rethinking the old or traditional development model based on economic growth as the exclusive indicator of wealth. Thus, humanity has an urgent need to adopt a new, more humane and fairer economic model that constitutes an alternative to the models of exponential growth that have dominated in the last two centuries. To do so, humanity is looking to the Degrowth model as a potential concept that aims to reduce wealth from pollutants, seeks more justice (as equity), and the improvement of the capabilities of those who are poor and disadvantaged (in the sense of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum). The purpose of this article is to question this model and whether it actually does improve environmental quality. Additionally, if the response is positive, another question arises: How to finance degrowth especially when we seek other less polluting energy sources whose costs seem to be very high

Biology · Degrowth · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Skepticism · Social science · Sociology · Philosophy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology

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