Answer to Question #184178 in English for Shel

Question

1. What do you mean by De-development?

2. According to Jason Hickel what is de-development of rich countries is all about?

3. What are the two indicators of the quality of life given in the article of Jason Hickel?

4. What do you mean by overconsumption is putting our planet and society at risk?

5. According to Jason Hickel our addiction to economic growth is killing us what does this mean?

Answer 1

1. It is simply about reducing consumption while maintaining happiness and achieving long life expectancy.

2. Having fewer physical things does not always mean less happiness. In other words, rich countries can “de-develop” by sticking to quality over quantity

3. 1.Develop generous, high-quality universal public services. 

Introduce a public job guarantee, so that anyone who wants to work can get a job doing socially useful things 

4. Overconsumption means that consumers already outpaced sustainable resources. So, our planet is at risk because resources will be limited in the future. And overconsumption leads to environmental degradation and the eventual loss of resource bases.

5. This means that poor countries make rich countries richer other than the other way round