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"Gross National Happiness" - what a concept! Read on:
"On April 2, 2012, the United Nations held a “High Level Meeting for Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm". The meeting, which included 650 leaders from around the world, began with an address by Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley of Bhutan, whose government measures their GNP, “Gross National Happiness”: "The time has come for global action to build a new world economic system that is no longer based on the illusion that limitless growth is possible on our precious and finite planet or that endless material gain promotes well-being. Instead, it will be a system that promotes harmony and respect for nature and for each other; that respects our ancient wisdom traditions and protects our most vulnerable people as our own family, and that gives us time to live and enjoy our lives and to appreciate rather than destroy our world. It will be an economic system, in short, that is fully sustainable and that is rooted in true, abiding well-being and happiness."
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"On April 2, 2012, the United Nations held a “High Level Meeting for Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm". The meeting, which included 650 leaders from around the world, began with an address by Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley of Bhutan, whose government measures their GNP, “Gross National Happiness”: "The time has come for global action to build a new world economic system that is no longer based on the illusion that limitless growth is possible on our precious and finite planet or that endless material gain promotes well-being. Instead, it will be a system that promotes harmony and respect for nature and for each other; that respects our ancient wisdom traditions and protects our most vulnerable people as our own family, and that gives us time to live and enjoy our lives and to appreciate rather than destroy our world. It will be an economic system, in short, that is fully sustainable and that is rooted in true, abiding well-being and happiness."
Read the full article here