Jason Hickel

"was intended to be a war-time measure, which is why it is so single-minded - almost even violent. It tallies up all money-based activity, but it doesn't care whether that activity is useful or destruc…"

"To get a sense of how extreme is: if we all were to live like the average citizen of the average high-income country, we would require the ecological capacity equivalent of 3.4 earths."

"In light of this, perhaps we should regard countries like not as underdeveloped, but rather as appropriately developed. We should look at societies where people live long and happy lives at low levels…"

"The plunder of Latin America left in its wake. In India, 30 million died of. Average living standards in India and China, which had been on a par with Britain before the colonial period, collapsed."

"Jason Hickel articles for The Guardian."

"While global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, the number of people living in poverty, below $5 per day, has increased by more than 1.1 billion. Why is this? Because past a certain point, GDP gr…"

"From his base on, the island shared today by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, he forced the local inhabitants - the - to bring him a certain quantity of gold every three months. Those who failed to d…"

"Scientists tell us that up to 140,000 species of plants and animals are disappearing each year due to our of the Earth's ecosystems. This rate of extinction is 100 to 1,000 times faster than before th…"