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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Larry Elliott

Degrowth needs to solve its image problem for the sake of the planet

A bungalow has subsided after being hit by strong winds
Hurricane Milton’s effect on the west coast of Florida this month is part of the price of governments’ policy of growth. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

The impact of the climate crisis is evident everywhere. Finance ministers meet in Washington DC this week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in the wake of two devastating hurricanes in the US within a month. Parts of the Sahara have been flooded for the first time in half a century.

Scientists attribute the growing number of extreme weather events to a planet that continues to get hotter as the result of rising concentrations of greenhouse gases linked to human activity. Global temperature records are being broken with every year that passes and the idea that this can continue indefinitely is a fantasy.

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