‘GDP growth will not improve people's lives or create jobs,’ trade unionists hear
Protesters dressed as forensic investigators outside Barclays bank in Broadmead, Bristol, to protest against the financing of climate devastation by the bank, on September 5
THE trade-union movement must move away from the ideology that GDP growth is beneficial to society, the TUC heard yesterday.
Speaking at a fringe meeting on the case for a radical green new deal after Covid, author and Goldsmiths, University of London, lecturer at Jason Hickel argued that the pursuit of GDP (gross domestic product) is driving ecological breakdown.
“The idea that we need more GDP growth to improve people’s lives and create jobs is a lie,” he said at the event, organised by War on Want.
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