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The solution to the world recession, of climate change, growing inequality, the social recession and the death of politics – is to get Chinese shoppers to buy more.  At least that is the recommendation of Gordon Brown to the G20. We can’t, it seems, any longer rely on the US consumer to get the world economy going again, now we need the Chinese. It raises a number of interesting questions:

1. Is the model of turbo-consumption the one we want to export?
2. Indeed do we even want it for ourselves?
3. Just because we’ve ‘enjoyed’ growth – is there a moral duty to encourage others to also ‘enjoy’ it?
4. Or is this just about UK exports?
5. Can the plant take it?
6. Is it inevitable that we all end up on the treadmill or more?
7. Why couldn’t Brown follow the argument of Sarkozy for well-being to replace GDP as the measure of national success?

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