McNeil and Barnes (2025) conducted a survey of 2051 respondents in the UK. The goal was to find out the respondents attitudes on the existence of a tradeoff between the environment and economic growth and their priorities in such a tradeoff.
They found out most people would prioritize the environment over growth.
In their cluster analysis on the responses, they identified the largest group to be “moderate environmentalists” (37 %), followed by a moderate economistic group (20 %) and a strong environmental preference group (19 %). 9% had extreme pro-economic-growth views.
They also tested whether highlighting the existence of a trade-off affected the respondents. They conclude that “greater public attention to the possibility of an environment-economic growth trade-off has only limited effects on support for environmental protection” and “It does not appear that increasing belief in the trade-off is consequential for people’s policy positions.”
McNeil, A., & Barnes, L. (2025). The environment–economic growth trade-off: Does support for environmental protection depend on its economic consequences? Ecological Economics, 230, 108522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108522
at this point very little to none of the economic growth even benefits normal people, it’s all for the rich. in fact rich people having more money means they can corrupt the government more and buy up more land and other zero sum goods we need