Best of #BeyondGrowth 2023 - Timothée Parrique

Timothée Parrique is a social scientist. He works currently as a researcher in ecological economics at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden). He is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), and “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). He frequently writes to debunk green growth and decoupling.
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The Beyond Growth 2023 Conference is a multi-stakeholder event aiming to discuss and co-create policies for sustainable prosperity in Europe, based on a systemic and transformative approach to economic, social and environmental sustainability and its encompassing governance framework.

We aimed to challenge conventional policy-making in the European Union and to redefine societal goals across the board, in order to move away from the harmful focus on the sole economic growth – that is, the growth of GDP – as the basis of our development model. The conference put into practice the idea of a post-growth future-fit EU that combines social well-being and viable economic development with the respect of planetary boundaries.

This three days major event is a cross-party initiative of 20 Members of the European Parliament, supported by a wide-range of partner organisations, which follows the success of the Post-Growth 2018 conference. The conference offered an opportunity for discussion across institutional boundaries and with European citizens. It involved stakeholders from EU and national policymaking, academia, social partners, businesses and civil society organisations.

As it aimed to discuss the future of European citizens, it took place in their house, in the European Parliament (Brussels’ site) from the 15th to the 17th May 2023.
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[cari.one.living.system]

I LOVE his work - always worth listening to

[mariukor]

Decoupling wellbeing from environmental pressures - very good point!

[ritainko-tariah]

I am Rita Solari Inko-Tariah from Nigeria

[mathiasfaitdesjeux]

Brilliant, inspiring and to the point. Bravo.

[scotonomics]

Fantastic contribution. Well done Tim.

[rosshonniball]

“It feels irresponsibly foolish to bet the survival of humanity on a highly improbably miracle predicted by the obscure models of a handful of economists.” Well put. Thanks.

[tomschuelke]

But the real question stays the same as always... how do you get the message to those that have been indocrinated with neoliberal thinking for years and understand the idea.. they are the ones that make the rules...

[tomschuelke]

I wished we had comparable people in germany... i just saw an AI Tool that transcribes your talk to what ever language you want, than takes your voice, recreates the talk in that other language, rewrites it to the film and at last sychronizes your lips with it..

this would multiply the size of his talks to a far bigger audience... of course this is troue for other great thinkers. like prof william e rees or nathe hagens and many others

[EricTorreborre]

Great speech. If anyone still needed to be convinced

[sergioluis]

GDP is the problem that measure is not accurate and we base our economics tied to it

[kennethshowers]

Magic!
Useless for those who decide, for they are not listening/ don't care at all. But if it can touch one or more "common" people, why not.

[anthonymorris]

The tiresome mantra against GDP growth. Wealth is everything. Growth generates greater wealth. Environmental stewardship, healthcare, well being, shelter, food production and on and on all require wealth.

[patrickashes]

Pure wishful thinking. A steady state economy ist not possible.

[conticonti]

so north Europe has to become poor in order to stop hurting the environment but in the same time south should get rich and in that process ignore the environment? Wow. this speech is a lot of nonsense