Tim Jackson
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Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
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Quotes by Tim Jackson
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We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.
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The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'
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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
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It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
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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.
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The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
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We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why governments do it, so there is an onus on us to show there are other stories and to identify the institutional innovations you might need in order to arrive at this other place.
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