Chapter Is GDP growth always a measure of success?

The chapter provides a critical analysis of the use of the natural environment and its protection in calculating GDP. Both the exploitation of natural resources and the broadly understood environmental protection industry contribute to GDP growth, regardless of their resource-intensive nature. In re...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1558852025-03-07T14:43:04Z Chapter Is GDP growth always a measure of success? Burchard-Dziubińska, Małgorzata The chapter provides a critical analysis of the use of the natural environment and its protection in calculating GDP. Both the exploitation of natural resources and the broadly understood environmental protection industry contribute to GDP growth, regardless of their resource-intensive nature. In resource-rich developing countries, it is also a challenge to properly estimate the resource rent and manage its use for the benefit of local communities. The attempts to green the economic growth and national accounts to date, although they have brought some intellectual unrest, have not released us from the problems resulting from treating economic activity related to the exploitation and degradation of the environment as GDP-generating. The need to support the production processes with energy generates another problem for mankind, the excess of energy is being reflected towards the Earth, which contributes to climate change. Since any activity which increases GDP leaves a carbon footprint, we are in a trap. By remaining slaves to economic growth, we can make Earth completely uninhabitable to life as we know it. 2025-03-07T14:43:03Z 2025-03-07T14:43:03Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788382208719_1535 9788382208719 9788382208702 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/155885 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/501 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8220-870-2.10 The chapter provides a critical analysis of the use of the natural environment and its protection in calculating GDP. Both the exploitation of natural resources and the broadly understood environmental protection industry contribute to GDP growth, regardless of their resource-intensive nature. In resource-rich developing countries, it is also a challenge to properly estimate the resource rent and manage its use for the benefit of local communities. The attempts to green the economic growth and national accounts to date, although they have brought some intellectual unrest, have not released us from the problems resulting from treating economic activity related to the exploitation and degradation of the environment as GDP-generating. The need to support the production processes with energy generates another problem for mankind, the excess of energy is being reflected towards the Earth, which contributes to climate change. Since any activity which increases GDP leaves a carbon footprint, we are in a trap. By remaining slaves to economic growth, we can make Earth completely uninhabitable to life as we know it. 10.18778/8220-870-2.10 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788382208719 9788382208702 177-198 open access
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