Go For Degrowth?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer says it's all about growth, growth, growth - but why do some economists and politicians say we're looking at it the wrong way? Ed Vaizey finds out about the radical theory of 'degrowth', and asks whether happiness is a better measure of success than GDP.
Plus: Columnists Melanie Reid and Robert Colvile discuss Britain's faltering national pride, the crucial role of public libraries, and why the Tories are seen as a bit weird.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
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| 1:09.3 | podcast with me Ed Vezi so politicians are absolutely obsessed with growth. It's going to solve all of our problems. |
| 1:16.5 | But what if it's not for our big thing today we're going to look at the concept of de-growth |
| 1:21.1 | and whether it can really save the planet. First though this. The Columnists. |
| 1:35.0 | The Columnists. |
| 1:41.0 | Yes, I'm joined by the Times Column Melanie Reed. Welcome to the show Melanie. |
| 1:45.3 | Morning Ed High, yes. Thank goodness you're here because Robert is not. |
| 1:48.8 | If Robert was here, I would say he was the director of the Center for Policy Studies, but it's just you and me |
| 1:53.5 | Melanie, but we are both professionals and we can carry this for the next 20 minutes. |
| 1:57.4 | So let's talk about Pride. |
| 2:00.9 | National Pride has fallen off a cliff, according to the latest survey by the National Center for Social Research. |
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