When Green Growth Is Not Enough: Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency 9780773596337

Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: A Battle of Three Paradigms
The UK and Canada: “Different Ends of the Performance League”
Business-As-Usual and Its Promethean Foundations
Ecological Modernization and the Greening of Capitalist Growth
Sufficiency: “What about the Appetite Itself?”
Critical Political Economy Perspectives on Growth, Capitalism, and Ecology
Can em Reform Deliver a “Carbon Revolution”?
Climate Action and Core Political Imperatives
Chapter Overview
PART ONE: THE LAGGARD
2 Canada: Stuck between Business-as-Usual and Ecological Modernization
From Early Leader to Back of the Pack
Federal Climate Policy: Win-Win Rhetoric Meets Policy Agony
Bau Voices: Growth vs. Environment, And Growth (Obviously) Must Prevail
Ecological Modernization’s Continued Struggle to Take Off
Obstacles to Ecological Modernization in Canada
Hard Choices: The Need to Go Beyond “Win-Win”
Conclusions
3 “Excuse Me, Excuse Me”: Struggles to Put Sufficiency on Canada’s Agenda
Prophets of a New Economy: Individual Critics of Growth
From Adbusting to Making Affluence History: Organizations Questioning Growth
Obstacles to Macro-Sufficiency: From Business Resistance to Environmentalist Reluctance
Specifically Canadian Obstacles to Sufficiency
Conclusions
4 Sufficiency’s Small Steps Forward in Canada
Double Messages: Growth Is Like Cancer, Climate Action Boosts Growth
Sufficiency: Inroads at the Micro Level
Sufficiency with a Corporate Twist
Campaigns for Voluntary Action and Lifestyle Change
New Well-Being Indicators
Conclusions
5 Alberta’s Oil/Tar Sands: Time to Step on the Brake?
Welcome to Fort McMoney
Dreams, Provincial and Promethean
The Dark Side of the Boom: Ecological and Social Impacts
“Are There Any Limits to Growth?”: Demands for an Oil Sands Moratorium
Ecologically Modernizing the Tar Sands?
Obstacles to a Managed Slowdown
The Battle over Oil Sands Growth Goes International
Conclusions
PART TWO: THE LEADER
6 Ecological Modernization in Britain: Coalition around a “Positive Agenda”
From “Dirty Man” of Europe to the “New Green Industrial Revolution”
New Labour: Starting the Low-Carbon Transition via the Carbon Market
Local Action and Innovation
Cradle-to-Grave Carbon Consciousness
Business: Being Green to Grow
The Stern Review and “The Day That Changed the Climate”
The Climate Change Act: Binding Targets and an “Eco-Constitution”
Pushing for a Low-Carbon, Growing Global Economy
The Promise of the “Greenest Government Ever”
Opportunity and Vulnerability: Factors Driving em in the UK
Conclusions
7 The Limits of Ecological Modernization in the UK
Business-As-Usual and the Voices of “Scepticism”
One Government Preventing Climate Change, Another Causing It
Climate Protection Pays (Up to a Point): The Carbon Reduction Commitment
Biofuels: The Easy Way to Go Green
Efficiency Is Not Enough
The Limits to the Stern Review
The UK’s Emissions Record: A Closer Look
Conclusions
8 A New Politics of Limits? Macro-Sufficiency in the UK
Taking on Economic Growth Head-On
“It’s Like the Third Rail”: Obstacles to the Growth Critique in Britain
Why Sufficiency Doesn’t Go Away
The “Economic Growth Dance”
Nuanced, Partial Critiques of Growth
Conclusions
9 Enough of That Already: Micro-Sufficiency in the UK
Relatively Easy Targets: Banishing Bags and Bottled Water
Food: Cutting Waste, Distances, and Meat and Dairy
Chelsea Tractors: Waging War on the Suv
Air Travel: Halting Heathrow Expansion
Conclusions
10 Sufficiency and the State in the UK: Setting the Stage for Deeper Change?
Living Within Limits and One-Planet Living
Behaviour and Lifestyle Change: An Opportunity, with Pitfalls, for Sufficiency
Alternative Well-Being and Economic Indicators
Floating the Idea of Carbon “Rationing”
Prosperity without Growth?
Conclusions
11 Comparison and Conclusions
Shared Commitment to Growth, Diverging Strategies
The Appeal, Importance, and Limits of Ecological Modernization
Sufficiency: Inroads and Prospects
Importance of a Positive, Alternative Vision
Appendices
1 Methods
2 Interviews and Events Attended in the UK
3 Interviews and Events Attended in Canada
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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