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    GE STS - Human Flourishing As Reflected in Progress and Development

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    1) Traditional notions of development through economic growth are unsustainable given current levels of overconsumption and environmental degradation. 2) The concept of "de-development" proposes that rich countries reduce their levels of consumption and resource use rather than pushing poorer countries to continue growing their economies. 3) Examples like Cuba and Costa Rica show that high life satisfaction and outcomes can be achieved at much lower levels of consumption than in rich Western nations, suggesting rich countries need to "catch down" rather than encouraging all to "catch up".

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    1) Traditional notions of development through economic growth are unsustainable given current levels of overconsumption and environmental degradation. 2) The concept of "de-development" proposes that rich countries reduce their levels of consumption and resource use rather than pushing poorer countries to continue growing their economies. 3) Examples like Cuba and Costa Rica show that high life satisfaction and outcomes can be achieved at much lower levels of consumption than in rich Western nations, suggesting rich countries need to "catch down" rather than encouraging all to "catch up".

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    1) Traditional notions of development through economic growth are unsustainable given current levels of overconsumption and environmental degradation. 2) The concept of "de-development" proposes that rich countries reduce their levels of consumption and resource use rather than pushing poorer countries to continue growing their economies. 3) Examples like Cuba and Costa Rica show that high life satisfaction and outcomes can be achieved at much lower levels of consumption than in rich Western nations, suggesting rich countries need to "catch down" rather than encouraging all to "catch up".

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    GE STS - Human Flourishing As Reflected in Progress and Development

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    1) Traditional notions of development through economic growth are unsustainable given current levels of overconsumption and environmental degradation. 2) The concept of "de-development" proposes that rich countries reduce their levels of consumption and resource use rather than pushing poorer countries to continue growing their economies. 3) Examples like Cuba and Costa Rica show that high life satisfaction and outcomes can be achieved at much lower levels of consumption than in rich Western nations, suggesting rich countries need to "catch down" rather than encouraging all to "catch up".

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    Human Flourishing as Reflected

    in Progress and Development


    GE-STS
    Learning Outcomes
    • Critique human flourishing vis-à-vis the
    progress of science and technology;
    • Explain Hickel’s paradigm of “de-
    development”; and
    • Differentiate it from the traditional notions of
    growth and consumption.
    Go-Go-Mo
    • You’ll be given 5 minutes to read the text.
    • After reading the text you’ll be given another 5 minutes
    to:
    • Walk around the room and find a partner.
    • Give one idea to your partner.
    • Get one idea from the partner and write it
    down.
    • Move one to another partner!
    • Move fast!
    Debriefing
    • What are the ideas that you
    got from the text?
    • What is the problem?
    • What is the solution?
    • UN’s new sustainable development goals
    (SDGs)
    – Main objective is to eradicate poverty by
    2030
    – Main strategy for eradicating poverty is the
    same: growth
    – Growth
    • Main object of development for the past 70
    years
    • Global economy has grown by 380%
    • People living in poverty on less than $5/day has
    increased by more than 1.1 billion
    • Orthodox economists
    – All we need is yet more growth
    – Shift some of the yields of growth from the richer to
    the poorer, evening things out a bit
    • Neither approach is adequate
    – We’re overshooting our planet’s bio-capacity by more
    than 50% each year
    • Growth is not an option any more – we’ve
    already grown too much
    • Global crisis due almost entirely to
    overconsumption in rich countries
    • Enough resources for each of us to consume 1.8
    “global hectares” annually – a standardized unit
    that measures resource use and waste
    • Average person in Ghana or
    Guatemala consumes
    • US and Canada consume about 8
    hectares/person
    • Europeans 4.7 hectares/person
    • Peter Edward
    –Instead of pushing poorer countries to
    “catch up” with rich ones, rich
    countries should “catch down” to more
    appropriate levels of development
    • Look at societies where people live long and happy
    lives at relatively low levels of income and
    consumption
    • exemplars of efficient living
    • US
    – Life expectancy – 79 years
    – GDP per capita - $53 000
    • Cuba
    – Life expectancy – comparable to the US and one of the
    highest literacy rates in the world
    – GDP per capita - $6 000
    – Consumption – 1.9 hectares
    – Similar to Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Tunisia
    • Philippines
    – Life expectancy – 69.3
    – GDP per capita - $2 891
    • Costa Rica
    – One of the highest happiness indicators and life
    expectancies in the world with a per capita
    income one-fouth that of the US
    – Underdeveloped to appropriately developed
    • Rich countries to justify their excesses
    • De-developing rich countries
    – Tricky but not impossible
    – 70% of people in middle and high-income
    countries believe overconsumption is putting out
    planet and society at risk
    • Problem
    – Pundits promoting this kind of transition are using the
    wrong language
    – De-growth, zero-growth, de-development
    • Like asking people to stop moving positively thorough life, to
    stop learning, improving, growing
    • “Steady-state” economics
    – Quality instead of quantity
    • Latin Americans
    • Buen vivir or good living
    • Robert and Edward Skidelsky
    – Banning advertising, shorter working week and a basic
    income
    – Improve life while reducing consumption
    • It’s not about giving up
    • Not about living a life of voluntary
    misery
    • Not about imposing harsh limits on
    human potential
    • But. . . . . .
    • It’s about reaching a higher level of
    understanding and consciousness
    about what we’re doing here and why.

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