Still searching for green growth... Third time lucky?
There is a third survey of the green economy. But have we struck green gold yet?
Recent posts since this Substack project started have been about surveys that purport to estimate the size of the green economy. For most of the last two decades, the green lobby and the politicians they have persuaded — or simply bought, frankly — have been promising ‘green growth’ and a ‘green industrial revolution’ and millions of ‘green jobs’. But their claims simply do not stack up. The two surveys considered previously have been the Office for National Statistics’ Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy (LCREE) survey, and the Low Carbon Environmental Goods and Services (LCEGS) survey produced by market ‘intelligence’ firm, kMatrix — which rightfully sounds like a chimera of an veterinary anaesthetic abused by ravers for its hallucinogenic properties, and a late 1990s sci-fi fantasy about a simulated reality. Now we have a third…
ONS produce another survey of the Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS). It is not entirely clear why they need two surveys of the green economy. But then again, there are many mysteries buried beneath the unimpeachable aim of destroying ourselves to save the planet. So what is yet another contraction between offices of the same state agency working tirelessly for our immiseration? Perhaps we will get to the bottom of it, and some of the other mysteries.
So what does EGSS say about green growth?
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