Critics such as the Club of Rome argue that a narrow view of
economic growth, combined with globalization, is creating a scenario where we
could see a systemic collapse of our planet's natural resources.
Concerns about possible negative
effects of growth on the environment and society led some to advocate lower
levels of growth. This led to the ideas of uneconomic growth and de-growth – and Green parties that argue that economies are
part of a global society and global ecology, and cannot outstrip their natural
growth without damaging those.
Those more optimistic about the
environmental impacts of growth believe that, though localized environmental
effects may occur, large-scale ecological effects are minor. The argument, as
stated by commentator Julian Lincoln Simon, states that if these global-scale ecological effects exist, human
ingenuity will find ways to adapt to them.
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