Abstract
But who do you thinks right, Prof? The optimists or the pessimists? At the end of my sustainability economics course in 2007, students were challenging me to end 20 years of professional fence-sitting. My whiteboard showed two graphs with contradictory messages about the long-run, environmental sustainability of global industrial development, the big question thats nagged me ever since teenage exposure to Paul Ehrlichs Population-Bomb eco-doomsterism. After much wrestling with the contradictions, I and my colleague Paul Burke have come up with a qualified answer: sustainability is possible over the next century, but only if we control climate change. The results were published this month in Ecological Economics
| Original language | English |
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| No. | 30/10/2014 |
| Specialist publication | The Conversation |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |