Politicians throughout the world are obsessed with
looking at economic growth as an essential component of individual and
collective wealth. Low grow rates are likely going forward and there is
fundamental doubt about future growth forecasts. The challenge for us as
citizens and for politicians is to understand this uncertainty and to create a
society which focuses on other ways to ensure well being and prosperity.
Economic growth is blind to inequality. Growth is
invisible from our ecological footprint due to the environmental damage it
causes and because of its role in the depletion of our natural resources. The
Green Party wants to move away from the growth rhetoric and concentrate on real
objectives like fighting climate change, reducing inequality in wealth and in
society, creating jobs, and improving life satisfaction.