Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson
changes desired directly elections official people
An elections official who is directly accountable to the people will make the changes desired by the people and the public.
elements premiere three together
I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,
few program progress
Just considering where this program was a few years ago, they've made so much progress in so little time.
demand driving looking market people tired
People are looking for that lifestyle. They're tired of driving a long way to work, and they want something to do at night. That market demand is there.
beijing clearly opportunity
Beijing is clearly an important opportunity for us, as is London.
motivation inspiration people
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
growth revolutionary questioning
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
growth economic myth
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
challenges prosperity ability
Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.
progress literature finance
Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
thinking legacy jazz
The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.
country growth quality
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.
water challenges growth
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.
growth prosperity pleasure
For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.