Fake Green Growth Policymakers of a certain policy bent are keen to tell the public that economic growth and environmental sustainability are not exclusive concepts. We can have our cake and eat it too if we simply change the way we do things. Lily Tomson at ShareAction has an interesting take on the subject by highlighting that even the European Environment Agency has debunked that storyline by saying there are environmental limits to economic growth. Specifically, she quotes that agency’s conclusion that, “It is unlikely that a long-lasting, absolute decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures and impacts can be achieved at the global scale; therefore, societies need to rethink what is meant by growth and progr...