Jeff Schweitzer, former science advisor to Clinton, writes in Huffington Post that we can have Green AND Growth.
Not so. We can't have growth at all. We CAN have, quite easily, improvements in world standard of living, especially for the lower classes who support the rich nations with their sweat and tears.
There are several flaws in the post Green or Growth. It's a completely political post, using the catchphrase/meme of growth to pander to the rogue capitalist/corporatists who own our legislative process.
Ironically, it uses cancer as a metaphor without realizing, apparently, that the human species can quite rationally be analyzed, in the best scientific tradition, as an invasive species on the world organism, sucking up its energy, wrecking its functions, leading to its biological collapse through its unchecked exponential GROWTH. As a marine biologist, Schweitzer should have this in the front of his head at all times. There are too many massive bipeds with industrial habits.
Putting forth that growth is a good thing says to me that the blogger is writing almost pure political commentary. Big surprise. Only politicians who are working for big corporations advocate any kind of growth. The honest ones tell us that population growth is out of control; that religion is the driver behind population growth and efforts to block population control; that there's a direct correlation between secularization and sane population policy, and that the most fundamentalist tumors in religion are the worst. Google "Full Quiver" and "religion birth control" for all the knowledge you need.
Rather than calling it "Growth" you might consider calling it "higher standard of living leading to reduced population through empowerment of educated women" and man up to the coming battle with the religious ayatollahs and preachers and priests. Unfortunately, we need to work on a substitute for religion as comfort for existential angst, but cognitive science and evolutionary psychology are well launched. See in amazon.com Hrdy, Sarah and "Mothers and Others" for the latest dope on "hypersocialization" as tool to implement this. We need social groups that support the existentially depressed, not brainless cheerleading for growth. Alloparenting can be extended into later life. We need better social groups. Blogs can work.