Plan B -- is there an alternative to economic growth?: Miklós Antal at TEDxDanubia 2014

Miklós Antal, ecological economist, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He now studies macroeconomic aspects of sustainability transitions. Previously he...

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Plan B: Is there an alternative to economic growth?Imagine that a family takes a trip to the mountains.They are walking on a path that looked quite good in the beginningwhen they somehow got on it. But now it's getting increasingly difficult.It's narrow and steep and there's a real danger of falling off the edge,especially for the kids. And it is too late to turn back.The question I would like to address is whether at this point it would be usefulto have a mapand to look at it. Just to see if there's an alternative way to go.The answer can be informative for a much bigger journeywhich is in many ways very similar. The path on which the majority of the worldpopulation has found itself is the path of economic growth. More exactly,a path o...