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In the words of TIM JACKSON, Director of the UK's Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, "The finite planet we call home is being altered perhaps irreversibly by the massive human activity that parades under the seductive banner of progress.” But can we replace the current model of not just commerce - but almost of reality itself - with a new one that is at least as inviting and more effective at fulfilling human and planetary needs? And can do we do it in time? Jackson’s new book, POST GROWTH: Life After Capitalism, lays out the problem and envisions a way of life beyond our addiction to material growth.
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Could You Possibly Invent a More Expensive and Less Effective Healthcare System than What We Have in the US? No. Which Is What I'm Telling Congress Today.
by Robert Reich - RobertReich.substack.com - 02-17-2022
TM: I began taking a medication today that has a price tag of $22K per year.

Why America Has So Few Doctors
As a matter of basic economics fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services.
by Derek Thompson - MSN.com - 02-14-2022

The Hidden Epidemic
Antibiotic resistance is approaching a crisis point, and the world needs to act.
by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg - Vox.com - 02-16-2022
TM: My life was saved in 2013 because my critical staph infection responded to four months of vancomycin infusions. But what if...?

Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out
There is no scientific way to tell if you’re stoned behind the wheel. That’s a problem for police—and you. One company is aiming to fix that.
by Amanda Chicago Lewis - Wired - 02-15-2022

How Much is a Dog’s Life Worth?
A writer learns the hard way—the hardest way—that in Texas the answer is: not much.
by Hannah Smothers - Texas Monthly - 01-11-2022
TM: We put Daisy, the 15-and-a-half-year-old love of our life, to sleep 6 weeks ago.

People Planet & Profit: A Conversation with Amy Domini
by Fran Teplitz - GreenAmerica.org
TM: Domini is a pioneer of conscious and green investing.

The Disaster of Philanthropy and Capitalism
Philanthrocapitalism enables the destruction of nature and the erosion of democracy.
by David Orr - YES magazine - 02-16-2022

Gerrymandering: Our Democracy at Risk
by Ryan O’Connell & Jim Harbison - ClassAct73

Gerrymandering: Our Democracy at Risk (18 min video update)
by Jacki Swearingen, Ryan O’Connell & Jim Harbison - ClassAct73 - 02-15-2022

Scientists Raise Alarm Over ‘Dangerously Fast’ Growth in Atmospheric Methane
As global methane concentrations soar over 1900 parts per billion some researchers fear that global warming itself is behind the rapid rise.
TM: What's natural or clean about "clean natural gas"?
by Jeff Tollefson - Nature - 02-08-2022

Do Today’s Unions Have a Fighting Chance Against Corporate America?
For the workers who haven’t joined the Great Resignation, this moment has inspired a new wave of organizing — and a brutal pushback.
by E. Tammy Kim - NYTimes - 02-17-2022

David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
The Dawn of Everything author left behind countless fans and a belief society could still change for the better.
TM: Graeber was a deep and original thinker/researcher who died too soon.
by Molly Fischer - NYMag - 11-09-2021

TIM JACKSON is Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey in the UK. For over three decades, he has focused on the moral, economic and social dimensions of prosperity on a finite planet, and his books include Prosperity without Growth and his latest POST GROWTH: Life After Capitalism.

The Art of Power
CUSP Director Tim Jackson reflects on the life of and work of the late Thich Nhat Hanh and its relevance for contemporary debates about the meaning of prosperity and power.
by TIM JACKSON - CUSP.ac.uk - 01-28-2022

Finding Flow: Exploring the Potential for Sustainable Fulfilment
by Amy Isham & Tim Jackson - Lancet Planetary Health - 01-2022

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi—A Visionary for Our Time
Professor Mihaly ‘Mike’ Csikszentmihalyi was one of the founders of the positive psychology movement and father of the concept of ‘flow’. His death last month at the age of 87 marks the passing of a rare and visionary scientist. In this blog Amy Isham and Tim Jackson reflect upon his life and legacy.
by Amy Isham & Tim Jackson - CUSP.ac.uk - 12-01-2021

Why Health Should Replace Wealth as the Heart of Prosperity
by Tim Jackson & Julian Sheather - BMJ.com - 07-30-2021
The economic system to which we are in thrall throws us out of balance Tim Jackson and Julian Sheather write in this blog. By failing to meet our most essential needs it is doomed to immiserate and ultimately sicken us. We urgently need to regain a richer more satisfying understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.

INET podcast on Life after Capitalism (video)
Tim Jackson in conversation with Rob Johnson
My 20-minute commentary calls for Millennials and Boomers with shared values to forge a movement large enough, creative enough, diverse enough, and powerful enough to successfully confront the critical problems we face. 60s.2.0 - 21st century tech in the service of the best of '60s values - meets OK Boomer - the impatience of the young with the failures of the old. "If the challenges we face are big enough to turn us against each other, then they must be big enough to bring us together."
Upcoming on Free Forum
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