This is the Guardian. if I'm a writer and broadcaster and I spend way too much time online. But now those years of

scrolling are finally paying off because I'm hosting the Guardian's new pop culture

podcast. In each episode I'm going to get under the skin of the week's biggest stories.

If you love pop culture, I want to get into how it's shaping and impacting our lives, then

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listen wherever you get your podcast.

Bye! Politicians from all sides are always telling us that it's a good thing.

Labour will fight the next election on economic growth. I have three priorities for our economy.

Growth, growth and growth. Growth,

growth, measured by our ever increasing gross domestic product, the monetary value of all the goods and services a country produces and sells.

To grow we have to produce more, do more, but is it really

possible to keep growing forever?

We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and

fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

How dare you? We're already exceeding our planetary boundaries, burning too much coal and gas over fishing, covering

the earth in plastic waste. Yesterday was Finance Day at COP27.

So today we're asking,

do we need to rethink our endless pursuit of economic growth

and instead pursue a more radical goal of

ditching growth altogether and putting the planet in its inhabitants first.

From the Guardian I'm in, and this is Science Weekly.

Professor Tim Jackson, you're the director of the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey.

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