Seeing the climate change, we need to change. The government is supporting solar energy, wind energy, electrification of cars and cooking, a circular economy, and that’s good! But this way we won’t get there. We need to go to a different economic system.

In the days of the solar king Louis XIV, his minister of finance, Colbert, had a system. The economy is a pie, each country has a slice, countries have to make war to make their slice of the pie grow. Now that system is outdated. We know that each country can grow and we can even benefit of the growth of other countries.

In the medieval times most people worked in agriculture. Since the industrial revolution this shifted to the cities and industry. But by mass production most workers now work in the services, like offices, tourism, entertainment etc. When agriculture and industry aren’t so important anymore economically and socially, we can decide to have a good politics on them. We must not try to grow as much as we can in agricultural production, but produce in such a way that it’s sustainable. We must not try to grow as much as we can with our industry, we must make it circular and supportive for the services. The services are the sector that’s the most usefull for our wealth and society. 

The system we now have is based on the growth of the economy. Already since the 1970’s we know there’s borders to growth. Our planet can’t bear it. If we don’t change our economic way of thinking we will be forced by disaster, to change our way of thinking and acting. That’s also not good for the profits of the multinationals and their shareholders. We don’t need to grow, we only need to make money with our entreprise. And growth in the sector of industry is a heavy burden on the planet. Now the multinationals and shareholders may dislike it because you make big money by mass production. But it’s up to politics to make unpleasant necessary dicisions!

SO THERE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AN END TO GROWTH, BUT AN EMPHASIS ON SERVICES AND A CIRCULAR ECONOMY.