This is one of the greatest things I've seen this year.
We live in a world where we value money and productivity over everything else. It's what's ultimately important to us as a society (if world economics is anything to go by). Wouldn't it be nice if we measured overall well-being and tried to make the world a place where we valued the foundations of allowing someone to be happy whlist not abusing our planet in the process? The Happy World index is all about measuring what's actually important.
Costa Rica ceased to have an army in the 1940's and instead put it's money into health and education. It get's 95% of its electricity requirements from renewable energy sources. If only the rest of the world would follow this fine example, what an amazing world we would live in.
This video is a must watch. There is probably going to be problems with the way we measure this (getting the exact formula is obviously going to be difficult), but the concept in general is BRILLIANT!
I know, I know it's 16 minutes long. Couldn't the change we need in the world be delivered in 4 minutes? Don't they know we are busy? JUST WATCH IT!
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