Tim Jackson quotes

Tim Jackson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.”
-- Tim Jackson

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“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

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“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...”
-- Tim Jackson

#Growth Quotes #Economic Quotes #Myth Quotes
“For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.”
-- Tim Jackson

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“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.”
-- Tim Jackson

#Country Quotes #Growth Quotes #Quality Quotes
“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”
-- Tim Jackson

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“Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.”
-- Tim Jackson

#Growth Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes #Questioning Quotes
“Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.”
-- Tim Jackson

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“If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.”
-- Tim Jackson

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“The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.”
-- Tim Jackson

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