Can We Grow Our Economy, Not Our Population?

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Date of Publication: March 18, 2016

Year of Publication: 2016

Publication City: Honolulu, HI

Publisher: Peer News LLC

Author(s): Luke Evslin

Newspaper: Honolulu Civil Beat

Hawaii is coming to terms with the role perpetual growth has played in its economy, and the reality that it cannot continue. Luke Evslin explores how and why Hawaii needs “to figure out how to decouple economic growth both from population growth and from environmental impact.”

We would all do well to pay close attention as Hawaii wrestles with the same challenges facing the global society.

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