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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.

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Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

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For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Tim Jackson

Tim Jackson

Born: June 4, 1957 (age 67)
Bio: Tim Jackson FAcSS is a British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey.

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