ENVR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Hedonic Treadmill, Degrowth, Conspicuous Consumption
7 Feb 2018
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Senator robert f kennedy: too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the emre accumulation of material things. Our gross national product, now, is over 8 hundred biliondollars a year, but that gnp if we judge the usa by that - that gnp counts air pollution and cigarette copy: yet gdp does not allow copy. Income and happiness trends in the us: graph, gdp steadily rising, happiness flat and possibly decreasing. When you start thinking about environmental problems, and you study things deeply you find the real issues are on the social level. What it means for humans to be well off (in order to understand how it is compatible to shifting to a sustainable society) In the bruntland conception, the goal is case in terms of needs satisfaction. In the 1999 u. k sustainable development strategy, it is case in terms of the quality of life.
