de-growth – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png de-growth – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Human Flourishing Doesn’t Require Endless GDP Growth https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/human-flourishing-doesnt-require-endless-gdp-growth/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:59:56 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/human-flourishing-doesnt-require-endless-gdp-growth/ by Jason Hickel

With a life expectancy of 79.1 years and levels of wellbeing in the top 7% of the world, Costa Rica matches many Scandinavian nations in these areas and far outperforms the United States. And it manages all of this with a GDP per capita of only $11,000, one fifth that of the US.  In this sense, Costa Rica is one of the most efficient economies on Earth: it produces high standards of living with low GDP and minimal pressure on the environment. ]]> by Jason Hickel

With a life expectancy of 79.1 years and levels of wellbeing in the top 7% of the world, Costa Rica matches many Scandinavian nations in these areas and far outperforms the United States. And it manages all of this with a GDP per capita of only $11,000, one fifth that of the US.  In this sense, Costa Rica is one of the most efficient economies on Earth: it produces high standards of living with low GDP and minimal pressure on the environment. 

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