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"Cualquier mejora en los niveles de pobreza a nivel mundial, se midan como se midan, se explica principalmente por la economía dirigida en China por el Estado y todas las mejoras en la calidad y esperanza media de vida provienen de la aplicación de la ciencia y el conocimiento a través del gasto público en educación, en el tratamiento de aguas residuales, acceso a agua potable, prevención y tratamiento de enfermedades, creación de hospitales y un mejor desarrollo de los niños. Estas son cosas que no vienen del capitalismo, sino del bien común.Contrariamente al optimismo y la apología del capitalismo de economistas como Smith, la pobreza sigue siendo la norma para millones de personas en todo el mundo, con pocos signos de mejora, mientras que aumenta la desigualdad en las principales economías capitalistas a medida que el capital se acumula y se concentra en grupos cada vez más pequeños."

"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use. Our research, recently published in Nature Sustainability (and summarised in The Conversation), is the first to quantify the national resource use associated with achieving a good life for over 150 countries. It shows that meeting the basic needs of all people on the planet would result in humanity transgressing multiple environmental limits, based on current relationships between resource use and human well-being. The chart below demonstrates the profound challenge nations currently face. National performance on seven environmental sustainability indicators is plotted against eleven minimum social thresholds for a good life (see About page for further details). Ideally, nations would be located in the top-left corner with no biophysical boundaries transgressed and all minimum social thresholds achieved."

"Because energy fuels both human development and environmental damage, policies that encourage energy demand reduction can run counter to policies for alleviating poverty, and the other way around. Achieving both objectives can only happen if energy use is spread more equally across societies. However, while it's widely acknowledged that part of the global population is living in 'energy poverty', there's little attention given to the opposite condition, namely 'energy excess' or 'energy decadence'. Researchers have calculated minimum levels of energy use needed to live a decent life, but what about maximum levels? "