Yes, this is the discredited Blair-Clinton Third Way, applied to environmental issues. It was a catastrophe applied to the so-called 'economy' as a whole, and w

Yes, this is the discredited Blair-Clinton Third Way, applied to environmental issues. It was a catastrophe applied to the so-called 'economy' as a whole, and would be worse applied to more serious real (ie. physical-ecological) issues: The physical problems of so-called 'growth' are many. They number in the thousands, and more are discovered with unremitting and accelerating frequency. Climate collapse is just one (albeit the most currently newsworthy). Trying to nail each one with the vast range of accounting and pricing mechanisms required would cripple capitalism. New rules and regulations would have to be enacted, and harmonised worldwide, constantly. Nostalgic capitalists call this 'green tape', and their solution is to pretend the real (physical, ecological, complex) world doesn't exist. Third Wayers instead pretend that the green tape problem doesn't exist. They both get this wrong because they have sworn religious fealty to fake 'growth' ('religious' is meant quite literally here - it has its historical origins in European variants of Christianity, and questioning it in public is taboo). Capitalism, whether nostalgic or third way, collapses ecologies because of its inherent allegiance to a fictional concept of growth. Ecologies are where we live, and we have nowhere else to go, whatever the protestations of capitalist death cult evangelists (Bezos et al).