HUMAN FLOURISHING

IN PROGRESS
AND
DE-DEVELOPMENT
MODULE 2
SECTION 2
 HUMAN FLOURISHING IN
PROGRESS
AND
DE-DEVELOPMENT
Human flourishing involves the rational
use of one’s individual human potentialities
including talents, abilities, and virtues in the
pursuit of freely and rationally chosen
values and goals.

Human civilization and the development

of science and technology. Based on
Aristotelian ethics, emphasizes the intrinsic
worth of health in all aspects of life.
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION EASTERN CIVILIZATION
INDIVIDUALISTIC COMMUNITY CENTRIC
Despite efforts to close out the gap between rich and poor
countries, a BBC report in 2015 stated that the gap in
growth and development just keeps on widening. Although
there is no standard measure of inequality, the report
claimed that most indicators suggest that the widening of
the growth slowed during the financial crisis of 2007 but is
now growing again.
ACCORDING TO,
JASON HICKEL,

THE CONCEPT • Forget ‘developing’ poor

OF
DEVELOPMENT:
countries, it’s time to ‘de-
develop’ rich countries.

• Instead of putting poor

countries ‘catch up’ with rich
ones, we should be getting
rich countries to ‘catch down.

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FORGET ‘DEVELOPING’ POOR
COUNTRIES, IT’S TIME TO
‘DE-DEVELOP’ RICH
COUNTRIES
(ARTICLE SUMMARY)
BY: JASON HICKEL
 The UN is launching new
sustainable development goals
aimed at eradicating poverty by
2030, with a celebration attended
by heads of state, celebrities and
other figures.
- The main strategy for ending
poverty is growth, which has
been the main focus of
development for the past 70
years, despite being ineffective.

- The global economy has

grown 380% since 1980, but
poverty has increased by 1.1
billion people.
- The approaches of more growth or
redirecting growth to the poor are
inadequate because the world has
already surpassed its bio-capacity by
50% annually due to
overconsumption in wealthy
countries.

- Growth is no longer an option and the

current global crisis is mostly due to
overconsumption in rich nations.
- THE AVERAGE GLOBAL
CONSUMPTION PER PERSON IS 1.8
GLOBAL HECTARES ANNUALLY.

- PEOPLE IN THE US AND CANADA

CONSUME 8 HECTARES AND
EUROPEANS CONSUME 4.7
HECTARES.
 Economist Peter Edward
suggests that rich countries should
catch down to more appropriate
levels of development.
 Low-consumption countries like Cuba, Peru, Ecuador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, and Tunisia have achieved
comparable life expectancy with a fraction of US income.

These countries are examples of efficient living and

should not be considered underdeveloped.
RICH COUNTRIES SHOULD JUSTIFY
THEIR EXCESSES.
- The concept of "de-
developing" rich countries
may be a powerful rallying cry
in the global south, but it will
be difficult to sell to
westerners.

- In recent consumer
research, it is stated 70% of
people in middle and high-
income countries believe that
excessive consumption
endangers our planet and
society.
- The issue is that the pundits
who advocate for this type of
transition are using incorrect
terminology.

- The concept of "steady-state"

economics is a step in the right
direction, but it still lacks clarity
in its framing
Latin Americans - organized
alternative visions around the
indigenous concept of:

-“Buena vivir" means "good

living" or "well living"
Robert and Edward
Skidelsky

The book "How Much Is

Enough?" where they lay
out the possibility of ROBERT SKIDELSKY
interventions such as:

- banning advertising

- shorter working week

basic income

EDWARD SKIDELSKY
 "Act in a way that the consequences of your actions are compatible with a future
humane existence, i.e. With the claim of humanity to survive for an unlimited time“

-BY HANS JONAS-