Michel Bauwens
The paper proceeds with a discussion of the interplay of scale and intensity in determining greenhouse gas
emissions. This is followed by the presentation of several macroeconomic scenarios using LowGrow, a
simulation model of the Canadian economy. The scenarios considered are ‘business as usual’ which is a
projection into the future of past trends, ‘selective growth’ in which differential growth rates are applied to
parts of the economy according to their direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, and ‘degrowth’ where
the average GDP/capita of Canadians is reduced towards a level more consistent with a world economy the
size of which respects global environmental limits. The paper ends with a comparison of the scenarios.
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