1. Why must we change our paradigm of growth and consumption to that of "dedevelopment"?
According to Jason Hickel " We must end poverty by changing the rules of the Global
Economy". There are countries that are still experiencing poverty and trying to catch up,
but according to Hickel's idea, we must change the course of economic development by,
instead of poor countries to 'catch up' with the rich ones, we should be getting the rich
countries to 'catch down'. We should think of ways for the rich countries to catch down
with the poor countries to make more appropriate levels of development. We should look
at societies where people live long and happy lives at relatively low levels of income and
consumption.
2. Why are the terms de-development, de-growth, and zero growth seemingly
unacceptable to the usual framework of human progress?
De-development, de-growth, and zero growth seemingly unacceptable because it only
means to stop overconsumption and start limiting the use of resources in nature and
water to avoid scarcity of resources in our planet. This kind of framework requires a high
level of development and continuous high level of progress which is the opposite of the
terms “de-development” and "de-growth" since these terms refer to catching down with
the development of rich countries instead of the poor countries to catch up with the rich
ones. The “de-development” aims for rich countries to have appropriate levels of
development. The term “zero growth” refers to stop of development, progress and
learning which is also unacceptable since it opposes the objective of the usual
framework of human progress. The usual framework doesn’t consider the consequences
of the high level of development such as the overconsumption which led us to exceed
the bio-capacity of our planet. The over consu