The Elephant in the Room: Why Transformative Education Must Address the Problem of Endless Exponential Economic Growth

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Tác giả: Chirag Dhara, Vandana Singh

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.9 Economic development and growth

Thông tin xuất bản: 2021

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A transformative approach to addressing complex social-environmental problems warrants reexamining our most fundamental assumptions about sustainability and progress, including the entrenched imperative for limitless economic growth. Our global resource footprint has grown in lock-step with GDP since the industrial revolution, spawning the climate and ecological crises. Faith that technology will eventually decouple resource use from GDP growth is pervasive, despite there being practically no empirical evidence of decoupling in any country. We argue that complete long-term decoupling is, in fact, well-nigh impossible for fundamental physical, mathematical, logical, pragmatic and behavioural reasons. We suggest that a crucial first step toward a transformative education is to acknowledge this incompatibility, and provide examples of where and how our arguments may be incorporated in education. More broadly, we propose that foregrounding SDG 12 with a functional definition of sustainability, and educating and upskilling students to this end, must be a necessary minimum goal of any transformative approach to sustainability education. Our aim is to provide a conceptual scaffolding around which learning frameworks may be developed to make room for diverse alternative paths to truly sustainable social-ecological cultures.Comment: To be published in: Iyengar, R. and Kwauk, C. (Eds.), "Charting an SDG 4.7 roadmap for radical, transformative change in the midst of climate breakdown". Brill Publishers
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