"It’s usually the top income earners that reap the biggest reward and the average worker may barely notice that GDP increased and those in extreme poverty definitely wouldn’t. Lifting people out of poverty is one of the main reasons that is cited in favour of continued economic growth. In fact, in older data, whilst $2.20 might have ended up in the pockets of those under the then poverty line, in the 1980s, for every $100 added to the global economy, that shrunk to just 60 cents in the 1990s… [and] it is much worse now. All that extra growth required to lift people out of poverty is devastating for the environment."
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Mike Roberts, "A Balance Between Environment Protection and Economic Growth" (August 4, 2025)
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