Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson
motivation inspiration people
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
growth revolutionary questioning
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
growth economic myth
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
challenges prosperity ability
Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.
progress literature finance
Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
thinking legacy jazz
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.
country growth quality
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.
water challenges growth
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.
growth prosperity pleasure
For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.
technology internet possibility
If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.
elements premiere three together
I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
beings flourish fulfilling higher human less needs opportunity people principle provided society
On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.
economic linguistic staggering
The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'