Giving Compass' Take:

• Lloyd Alter at TreeHugger reports on the "green growth" phenomenon and how it aims to save our world from climate change. 

• How can renewables and new technology make enough of a difference?

• Here's an article on the importance of declaring a global climate emergency. 

Do we have the political will to do what has to be done? Simon Kuper doesn't think so. I do.

Everyone who is thinking about climate has to also be thinking about growth. Vaclav Smil wrote in his last book on energy: "Any suggestions of deliberately reducing certain resource uses are rejected by those who believe that endless technical advances can satisfy steadily growing demand. In any case, the probability of adopting rationality, moderation, and restraint in resource consumption in general and energy use in particular, and even more so the likelihood of persevering on such a course, is impossible to quantify."

Now I am struggling to get through his latest book, Growth, which he concludes by "driving home the point that the trajectory of modern civilization, driven by computing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, remains uncertain," which is his way of writing, "OMG we're all gonna crash and burn."

Writing behind the Trump-sized paywall at the Financial Times, Simon Kuper is not too optimistic either. He points out that global emissions are rising and the population is growing.

Read the full article about green growth by Lloyd Alter at TreeHugger.