Make Prosperity Global:

A holistic approach beyond quantitative growth

Donald Maclurcan
Research Affiliate, Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, University of Technology, Sydney
Donald.C.Maclurcan@uts.edu.au

Needs Needs Challenges Options

1. Contraction in the Global North to 3. A more holistic approach to 4. Challenging ‘quantitative growth’ - 6. Does greatest hope lie with the
accommodate a world-wide steady- challenging quantitative growth the great unifier for social justice disengaged and at the margins?
state convergence1 movements?
Interested but "Enlightened"
Ambivalent Holistic
Disengaged Populist
Global South Global North Earth's Biocapacity Under % of Global North 15 60 20 5

Under question Footprint high high t o mo de ra te high to m o derate m o dera te to lo w

consideration Sustainability
'Knowledge'
lo w lo w t o m o de rat e
high &
c o nstrained
high & dive rse
6.7
Ecological Footprint

pe ss im is t o f the
Hope a pa the tic unsure f ait hf ul believ er mind, o ptimist o f
5.7 t he he art

m ixe d - ho pe ful high be lie f in

Masculine
(ha/pp)

Scientific Faith high lo w

4.7 yet sk eptic al ' so lut io ns'

Feminine nurturer Institutional Faith

3.7 dominator m ixe d lim ite d se lec tiv e lim it ed

narrative Worldview reduct io nis tic reduct io nis tic se mi-syst em s sys te ms

2.7 narrative Evangelisation no t applica ble

no t c urrently
applica ble
m o ralistic &
dire ct
ge nt le & indire ct

Utilitarianism high m o derate high lo w

1.7 Self-reflexivity lo w m o derate

lo w (witho ut
c ris is )
high

2010 2030 2050 2070 2090

Community 6 7 8 9
Year Private ownership
custodianship

10
Technological Appropriate 11 12

‘solutions’ technology
2. Replacement of the ‘development 5. How about growth-addicted
paradigm’ humanitarian and environmental
Corporate Globalisation from movements?
Development has but with what failed2, globalisation below
do we replace it? How do we reconcile “Infrastructure is the basis for poverty
reduction as well as economic Acknowledgements
localisation with globalisation? Subsistence as Subsistence as growth”3
http://cosmopolitancivilsocieties.com/
poverty sustainability
“It is vital for us to educate young people
http//growthbusters.org
‘reflexive pluralisation’ on these important issues...to develop
youth networks and to expand training
A social needs An asset-based opportunities for youth from developing Footnotes/References
a self-governed process of increasing the
approach approach countries to help raise awareness of 1. Jackson, T 2009, Prosperity without Growth, Earthscan, London.
socio-cultural, technological and clean technology solutions”4 2. Sachs, W (ed.) 1997, The Development Dictionary, 6th impression edn, Zed Books, London.
3. http://globalpovertyproject.com/infobank/infrastructure
resource autonomy of communities 4.
5.
http://theclimateprojectus.org/tcpnews.php?id=555
http://one.org/c/us/issue/17/

whilst effectively considering the Expert knowledge Collective wisdom “Economic growth, driven by trade 6.
7.
http://gift-economy.com
http://appropedia.org
and investment, is the critical engine 8. http://opensource.org
importance of external change and that will end poverty in sub-Saharan 9.
10.
http://forumsocialmundial.org.br/
http://permaculture.org.au
critique. Africa”5 11. http://transitiontowns.org
12. http://mankindproject.org