If you thought pandemic disruption was tough? Let's talk about climate change.

The COVID-19 pandemic is brutal and disruptive to everyone on earth.  The effects of the pandemic, social and economic, could echo on for years to come.  As we know, nothing in our lifetimes has had such a universally disruptive impact to global society. Bad stuff indeed, but nothing compared to what Climate Change has in store for us.  Once again, we're pleased to have Dr. Anders Hayden going GDP for the season closer about how, and if, global society will be prepared to handle the disruptions coming from climate change. Anders Hayden is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He is particularly interested in the evolving balance between efforts to promote ecological modernization (“green growth”) and sufficiency-based challenges to the endless growth of production and consumption. He has written on efforts to promote "green growth" in Canada, Britain, and the European Union. His interest in the sufficiency approach has included examination of policies and initiatives to reduce hours of work as well as research on Bhutan, a country that has established Gross National Happiness, rather than Gross National Product, as its overriding goal. He is currently involved in research on the political and policy impacts of alternative measures of wellbeing and prosperity (“beyond GDP” measurement). He is the author of two books: When Green Growth Is Not Enough: Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014) and Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption & Ecology (Zed Books / Between the Lines, 1999), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance (Routledge, 2020). Follow his latest project about moving beyond GDP here:  www.beyondgdpindicators.com Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter @ProfessorHuish