ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the harms and injustices caused by anthropogenic climate change, an existential threat to current and future generations of humankind and to material basis for all forms of economic development. Sustainable development, now the dominant contemporary conception of development, fosters the dangerous delusion that endless growth is possible on a finite planet while protecting the environment and achieving social justice. It has long been clear that it is impossible to grow our way to sustainability. What is needed is not this alternative form of development but alternatives to development because the problem lies in the idea of development itself.
