2025年第43讲总第916讲

题目：Technology, economic growth and the environment – seeking lessons from 50 years of international debate（技术、经济增长与环境——50年国际争论的启示）

地点：全讯600cc大白菜官网宝山校区600全讯白菜网516

时间：2025年10月20日16:00-18:00

主持人：张敦福教授

与谈人：蒋耒文教授

主讲人：ADRIAN ELY，Professor of Technology and Sustainability SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex； Natural England Expert Advisory Group: Science and Innovation for the Natural Environment 2042；United Nations Expert Network for STI Policy and Practice；Steering Committee, Sussex Asia Centre.

内容简介：In 1972, scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the pioneering ‘Limits to Growth’ analysis of world economy-environment relations. The report received different receptions from within the USA and from the wider international community, with researchers of science, technology and innovation offering specific criticisms. Whilst these took distinct forms, their arguments shared hope in the ability of technology to decouple economic growth from environmental collapse. This idea has remained prominent in policy ever since. In revisiting that debate, we recall how critics’ hope was conditional upon a radical restructuring of political and economic relations at the international level. This was a period when Third World solidarity was pushing the United Nations towards an equitable economic order for post-colonial justice. Agreed processes for building their declared New International Economic Order included negotiations and proposals for a global redistribution of technological capabilities and self-reliance. These hopes crumbled in the face of the neoliberal counter-revolution. Today, technology can be seen as a device for evading, not enabling, radical political and economic change. Given the alarming fact that Limits to Growth scenarios appear more prescient than ever, what lessons can current approaches to the international governance of science and technology draw from this history?

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