Davos 2020: Tim Jackson on qualitative growth

Growth has been a huge positive force for human development, but over the last 50 years the side-effects have increased to a dangerous level for the planet and society. Debt is at record highs, inequality is fuelling extreme politics and the damage we are doing to our environment may be impossible to reverse. Is there an alternative to growth as we know it? Can we bypass a lengthy industrialisation process and move to a technology and services-led economy with manufacturing processes made less carbon-intensive? Can future economic growth be tied to improved environmental outcomes? Tim Jackson, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey in the UK, talk to Jörg Eigendorf, Deutsche Bank.