The growth paradigm: Within the topic of sustainability must be consideration of the need to de-grow, or to at least keep the economic volume of companies at the same level, in order to reach a...

The growth paradigm: Within the topic of sustainability must be consideration of the need to de-grow, or to at least keep the economic volume of companies at the same level, in order to reach a situation where the environmental impacts of business and consumption stay within the planet’s resource limitations. Traditional finance has a built-in growth mechanism: growing revenues, growing markets, growing consumption.