HUMAN FLOURISHING IN PROGRESS AND DE-DEVELOPMENT

Overview

Science is one of the most important subjects that must be learned because of its relevance to the
students’ lives. In this module, the topic is focused on how to view the progress and how the human
nourishing in the context of subject matter itself. This will focus on Jason Hickel’s article entitled Forget
‘developing’ poor countries, this allows us to understand the growth or shifting growth from developed
to developing nations are inadequate strategies to finally end the problem of poverty.

Summary

HUMAN FLOURISHING AS REFLECTED IN PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT

People always seek to live better lives and provide a better life for their kids. In the process, they seek
to live lives of meaning and aspire to fulfill their potential. Jason Hickel assers that more growth or
shifting growth from developed to developing nations are inadequate strategies to finally end the
problem of poverty. He claimed that we have continually going past our capacity to generate supply of
renewable resources and to absorb surplus. Developed countries are also over-consuming. By
“progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational
advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of
centuries.” In a addition, Hickel's said that solutions to achieving this goal include banning advertising, a
shorter working week, and a basic income. Hickel warned us that if we insist of too much growth, the
environment will stop us from growing, and that we will up on poverty, something that we aimed to
escape from.