{"id":1105,"date":"2025-10-02T04:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/improving-the-environment-destroying-the-economy-it-is-simply-not-true-ekins-says\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:38","slug":"improving-the-environment-destroying-the-economy-it-is-simply-not-true-ekins-says","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/improving-the-environment-destroying-the-economy-it-is-simply-not-true-ekins-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving The Environment Destroying The Economy It Is Simply Not True Ekins Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"edit image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/images\/44562-1-eng-gb\/improving-the-environment-destroying-the-economy-it-is-simply-not-true-ekins-says_full_view.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t<\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"\" improving the environment destroying economy? it is simply not true\", ekins says\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/6334\/8293\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&quot;Improving the environment destroying the economy? It is simply not true&quot;, Ekins says<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-leeuw-bas\/\">Bas de Leeuw<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t10 June 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Paul Ekins said an environmental tax reform is necessary to achieve the goals of eco efficiency. He stressed that this would be a tax shift, not a tax increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">His research has shown that six EU countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK) have already implemented environmental tax reforms. Economic impacts have been generally positive, effects on industrial competiiveness have been minimal. Energy demand and emissions have been reduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&quot;The mindset with policy makers,&quot; he said , &quot;is still overwhelmingly that improving the environment is destroying the economy. Well, this is simply not true. &quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Politics is difficult, he added. Scientists need to develop a compelling narrative to influence public debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&quot;It is not a technology or cost problem&quot;, Ekins said, &quot;We have got the technologies, but they are simply not implemented. People are attached to consumption rather than savings and investements. Changing the political reality is the necessary condition for the adequate mitigation of climate change, which will alone avoid the potentially enormous but still very uncertain costs of adapting to climate events and conditions beyond all kinown human experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p>\t\t<!-- body -->\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"disqus_content\">\n\t\t\t<a name=\"comments\" id=\"comments\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_shortname = 'broker'; \/\/ required: replace example with your forum shortname\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_identifier = '5188';\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tfunction trackComment(comment)\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tfunction disqus_config() {\n\t\t\t\t\tthis.callbacks.onNewComment = [function() { \n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t\t}];\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t(function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text\/javascript'; dsq.async = true;\n\t\t\t\t\tdsq.src = '\/\/' + disqus_shortname + 'https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/.disqus.com\/embed.js';\n\t\t\t\t\t(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);\n\t\t\t\t})();\n\t\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n\t\t\t<!--\n\t\t\t<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t-->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Improving the environment destroying the economy? 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