Jason Hickel

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The global economy is overshooting sustainable levels of material resource use by a factor of two, driving ecosystem damage and ecological breakdown. Not everyone is responsible for this crisis. It is being caused overwhelmingly by excess resource use in high-income...

Extreme poverty is not a natural condition. It is an effect of economic systems that appropriate labour and resources, or divert them away from meeting local needs in order to facilitate elite accumulation.The World Bank claims that the share of the global population...

The ecological crisis poses a forceful challenge to the dominant paradigm of economic growth. In the 21st century, the goal of development must be to achieve strong social outcomes within planetary boundaries.The Human Development Index (HDI) was created in the 1990s...