Economists love economic growth. It's an essential driver of rising living standards.
But on today's show, we wrestle with a question we've heard a lot from our listeners: Is economic growth bad for the planet?
We talk to one economist, Herman Daly, who argues that economic growth is in fact environmentally unsustainable.
And we hear from a second, Robert Mendelsohn who says economic growth and a healthy environment can co-exist — but who argues we should include the effects of pollution in the price of electricity.
For More:
Read the UN population report
See Mendelson's study, Environmental Accounting for Pollution
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