"At present, we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" Paul Hawken (2009)
As Club of Rome releases
its historical Limits to Growth in the United States
in 1972, the same year the term "gross national happiness"
(GNH) is coined in the Kingdom of Bhutan. In pursuit to build an
economy that would promote Bhutan's unique culture based
on Buddhist spiritual values, the emperor of this landlocked
Himalayan country of less than one million (746,500 people today) introduced a
five-year planning based on GNH.
Slogan about Gross National
Happiness in Thimphu's School of Traditional Arts
Since then, for over 40 years, the kingdom of Bhutan is
placing environmental concerns and spiritual wellbeing over rampant
capitalism. As Paul Hawken further states: "working for the earth is not
a way to get rich, it is to be rich".
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