Jason Hickel: ‘Our addiction to economic growth is killing us’ - Viewsnight 

Shout out to my fellow students watching this for GSTS :>

Absolutely agree.

Truth is BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for sharing this, BBC! 😘

Incredible how such simple logic confounds us all

Jason’s words about degrowth are not only for critical understanding and adherence but he also warns us of the urgency to do it. He is the truest ecologist and humanist of the modern world.

Look around you, people want more and more, they demand things immeadiately, everything has to be 24/7, faster and quicker, more greed and more selfish. And I don't see people becoming any happier. I don't see people becoming more content. We need to slow down, appreciate what we have got and be more humble. What we want and what we need, have been confused.

Love his books

Jason i am sooooo much glad to see this upload as atleast some group of people have been realise this truth. Thanks a lot and keep sharing every human being on planet should understand this important situation. Even must teach in school, college. Thats why some rich people after knowing this turned to minimalistic lifestyle,stress free and natural life with nature and family. Economy and science are big tools we have need to use very wisely for next generation and to preserve our mom planet.

Humanity's greatest resource is ingenuity. When a resource becomes too scarce, we change what we do or how we do it. We don't need certain resources. We need certain things - food, heat, water, transportation, etc. How we accomplish these is up to us. We can decouple growth from materials.

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Agree. However, realistic models for alternative economies need to emerge from a new sociopolitical and economic system. They cannot be imposed. Such viable alternatives need to be spelled out in terms that are accessible to the common people so that increased awareness may finally push back against the repressive global 'free markets' of today.

There has been a fair degree of understanding about this since the 1970s.. (e.g. "The Limits to Growth" (1973) Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III). Climate change was already a concern since the 1960s and initially observed in early 1900s. This message still needs to be said and this particular message has been expressed very clearly.

I strongly agree we should think of the consequences.....

Everyone needs to understand this.

Nice

We created a system that is fairly competent in climbing the mountain wall of growth, yet we have never determined what is on top of this wall and when or how we might reach it.

GSTS?

I agree❣️

Online class brought me here. 😂

Agreed

Well, plenty of people suggest new systems, but are they even feasible to implement? It is easy to create a fantasy world. It is difficult to implement something into reality

Am trying to get James O'Brien on LBC to underpin all his socio economic nonsense to assimilating these wise words from Dr. Hickel so we can all survive and thrive past 2030...We need an action plan of brainstorming all 8 billion of us to assimilate and act the antidote to economic (and not political) capitalism. Hey ho and off we go.....

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you can't kill consumerism, people will sooner agree on making a playstation 5 free than agreeing on never making them

Totally correct. Combine this with the anarchist one and we have a solution ;-)

We will change, just too late on

Janson is talking about a real threat that is staring in our faces. He is right that a countries progress should not be meaured purely by GDP but by substrating the environmmental and social costs incurred in creating that GDP. If that is considered most developed economies will have a low GDP growth. One is not suggesting that live in poverty. Live in comfort, but do not waste resources. Stick to needs and not conspicuous consumption. There is a serious need now, more than ever before, to follow the teaachings of the Indian vedic texts and Upnishads and other literature that spell out how human beings should like in harmony with nature. They can live a comfortable life style without necessarily destroying nature. This, by adopting a life of spriutality, low desires and needs.

Mindfulness has nothing to do with politics and assumptions about how to fix society. Mindfulness is about the individual fixing the individual.

We need to stop creating so many overconsumers as well as overconsuming ourselves.

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The economy is not a zero sum game.

The Venus Project has some ideas about how this can be done

Nc

Though Mankind is at the brink of this great apotheosis, you must be ever vigilant for the stillborn harbingers of this change. Where you seek the pure and strong, there too will you find the impure and weak. Where you find but one worthy of life, you will also find a million twisted, deformed monstrosities for whom death by your hand is a mercy. Therefore, look first for the mutant, for he may never hide his sin from you, and in his midst there will be revealed to you that which you seek. But be ever vigilant, for even should you find one with the gift, only one in a thousand liberals will be strong enough to resist the perils of the victimhood and be allowed to live.

Let's begin with them: downgrade their wages, close the faculty - which consumes a lot of resources. When they show us how happy they are with their new lifestyles, only then I will begin to consider that proposal. Of course, it's the usual dream of the "vanguard of a new era" who wants to make social experiments with little people.

Yep totally. As it has to be regenerative, lets go with REGENERISM

This guy surely has a tablet, an iPhone, a car, he is travelling long distances by plane, he dress fashionable cloth and lives in a city like London or so. De-growth for the others, not for me. His standard of living, beginning with the very fact that he is a native speaker of English and has had access to a great education, is out of reach for the majority of people of the emerging world.

hes right on one thing governments aiming for for just higher gdp and how they do it aint great, annual gdp is flows of money in one year nothing more, gdp per capita is flows of money divided between the population , gpd per capita is the best indicator to see if a population is better or worse of, the trouble every rising population has is if population rises 1 percent gdp must rise 1 percent or you are worse of lol , and nobody wants to be worse of! lol so environmentalist are probably not so helpful on this subject lol

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The reality is quite the opposite. Economic growth actually benefits the environment. If you look at the poorest nations in the world you will find environmentalism is at the very bottom of their list of priorities. Whereas concern for the environment is highest in the rich first world. Innovation and investment drives progress. Which is dependent on economic growth. And progress is what we need in order to find alternative sources of resources and energy. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist. Anthropology is one of the 'social sciences'. A highly politicised section of the humanities. He has written on the need to move away from the capitalist system in order to eradicate 'inequality'. However, the problem still facing much of the world is not inequality. But poverty. And if you are looking for a system that best combats poverty, then look no further than capitalism. And on a purely self interested basis, Jason Hickel should be careful what he wishes for. As the social sciences would be the first to lose their funding if society decided to cut out waste and the unnecessary allocation of resources.

Wishful thinking!! Only Jesus Christ who cares & sacrifice for others. Looking forward to his return/ kingdom of God.

it should be down to a personal level, The guys that change their cars every two years, takes that job that is 50 miles away rather than 2 miles, Can not fix or repair a thing, Don't know when to quick the rat race because they need that Million bucks, Fly to Oz for a two weeks holiday when they have not seen their own country. etc etc.

You mean Capitalism!