Discuss ‘green growth’
| Event Start Date: 19th July 2016 | Event End Date: 20th July 2016 | Event Venue: Delhi |
Two events discussing Green Growth, its political and ecological implications, and radical alternatives to it, in Delhi; based on a new book:
19 July, 2.30-5 pm: National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS), Pusa
20 July, 3.30 pm: Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University
The green growth discourse proffers a world of scientific insight, engineering sophistication and managerial smartness that purports to redress the accumulated harms and impending consequences of “old” industrialisation. It encompasses strategies ranging from geo-engineering to myriad modest proposals that, collectively, may be referred to as an “efficiency strategies.” Through such instrumentalities, green growth promises to stem the environmental crisis and mitigate its consequences while addressing persistent challenges to the emancipation of human beings from destitution and disempowerment. This book sifts through the ideological commitments, policy choices and the resulting political economy that have shaped the contemporary world, and searches among them for narratives that rationalise an idea that in its essence was identified, accurately in our view, as an “impossibility theorem” (Daly, 1990). The book then trains its focus on the alternatives to green growth.