Economy – The Ecozoic Times https://ecozoictimes.com News & resources for the emerging Ecozoic era :: reinventing human-Earth relations in this new geologic era Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:27:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ecozoictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screenshot-2023-03-13-at-23-07-41-Customize-The-E-cozoic-Times-News-resources-for-the-emerging-Ecozoic-era-reinventing-human-Earth-relations-in-this-new-geologic-era.png Economy – The Ecozoic Times https://ecozoictimes.com 32 32 Prosperity consist in our ability to flourish as human beings… https://ecozoictimes.com/prosperity-consist-in-our-ability-to-flourish-as-human-beings/ Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:17:00 +0000 https://ecozoictimes.arthasoaps.com/?p=1805 Continue reading →]]> Cognizant of the history of civilizations, I’ve been thinking about the characteristics of a sustainable civilization as a condition for healthy humans within a healthy Earth community. Instead of creating institutions and bureaucracies let’s create and encourage values, mores, characteristics that will travel through deep time to future people.  Cleaning my desk I can across this quote (again) and share it with you here.

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.

– Tim Jackson from Prosperity Without Growth

The entire book is available to read at https://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=914 as of this blog post.

Or buy it from the publisher: www.routledge.com/books/details/9781844078943/

A Guardian (UK) book review (2010):

www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/23/properity-without-growth-tim-jackson

A Sierra Club review (no date):

www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption/prosperity.asp

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