Francisco Guerreiro questions European Commission on ecological collapse

Brussels, January 10, 2024 - Francisco Guerreiro MEP questioned the European Commission about ecological collapse and an alternative economic and social system.


See the question below:


Subject: Ecological collapse and an alternative economic and social system
Recently, a new research paper published in the journal Science Advances shows that six of the nine planetary boundaries have been breached: climate change, new entities, biosphere integrity, earth system changes, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows, and that at the same time pressure is increasing on all boundary processes. This rapid and continuous deterioration empirically reveals the physical impossibility of an economic, social and cultural model based on infinite growth. The EU must therefore prepare for alternative economic and social models.     
(1) Does the Commission intend to study, shape and propose alternative economic and social systems that decouple growth from development and internalize all the ecological costs of productive sectors?
2. Will the Commission study the possibility of implementing a degrowth or stable transition system that takes into account the negative economic and social impacts of the current infinite growth model?
3. Do you think there is another way beyond the political narrative of infinite growth on a finite planet?


Read the Commission's response below:

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