Rejection of the limits to growth position is usually based on the belief that technical advance will deal with the associated problems by way of “decoupling”; that is, by enabling continued increase in production and consumption globally while bringing environmental impacts down to sustainable levels (e.g. Breakthrough Institute, 2015). It is not difficult to show the extreme implausibility of this “technofix” approach. The above figures show the enormity of the reductions that would be required. For the growth economy to operate within the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet and leave a share of the planet for other species, impact rates per unit of GDP would arguably have to be cut by 90% or more by 2050.
). It is not difficult to show extreme implausibility of this ” approach enormity of the reductions would be required For the growth economy to operate within sustainable carrying capacity impact rates per unit of GDP would arguably have to be cut by 90% or more