Why we can no longer worship at GDP’s altar | Letters

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas argues that we need a new measure of success and wellbeing, while Ian McCalman says the productivity debate focuses too much on manufacturingLarry Elliott (Opinion, 30 November) is absolutely right to question a fixation on growth at all costs. We know that infinite economic growth simply isn’t compatible with a planet of finite resources, and we also know that the treatment of environmental concerns as “externalities” in pursuit of never-ending GD