"The ideal #poverty rate in America is zero. Why settle for anything less? Why accept the boring, pernicious best-we-can-doism that has captured the inequality debate in recent years?"
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#poverty. It’s the poor who are mostly suffering from #obesity and other ills that shorten life expectancy. In Latin America and southern Europe poor people may have a healthier diet, especially in rural areas, more exercise out of necessity, (hillside villages, public transportation) and a closer social network

"We can't afford poverty in a world in which there are environmental limits."

#TimJackson, Professor at the University of Surrey, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018875451/prof-tim-jackson-imagining-life-after-capitalism

#podcasts #RNZ #KimHill #deGrowth #sustainability #poverty