I’m pro growth and I don’t see any reason why that has to be done badly. Eg I also care about the environment being healthy, but think we can switch to solar and be smarter about other sorts of pollution etc and achieve both ends.
If we dramatically change our lifestyles and industry for the sake of the environment, we would still, at current population numbers, have a huge, negative impact on the environment. Especially once more countries join the developed world.
It's a fantasy to think we can sprinkle some solar and sustainable farming on our societies, and the environment will be just fine as the human population triples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen...
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Because people mean different things by this. Do you mean it in the "the economy should keep becoming bigger" sense or "human experience should keep getting better" sense? Or do you think it's the same thing?
So probably they mean someone opposed to people like that.
The main problem is that caring about the environment becomes a competitive disadvantage to your business when your competitor doesn’t care and is willing to do anything to get ahead. Sometimes it’s fine if you’re a luxury brand trying incorporate sustainability into your brand, but that matters less in a B2B context.
The “bad” money inevitably beats the “good” money.
“Bad” money works to circumvent society altogether and is not interesting in participating in a societally-driven dialogue about what’s ethical and what’s not. If it did, there would be no dark money or influencing-peddling in the system.
This is where various checks and balances are vital and society needs to constantly remind its young people that ends do not justify the means. Something we are definitely losing these days.