According to this philospher and author Dave Pollard, our well-being should be measured with GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator).
GPI apparently takes into account resource depletion, crime, household and leisure time, pollution, wealth distribution, lifepsan of consumer goods, dependence on foreign imports, etc...
which are all ignored by GDP.
Definitions of GPI:
http://www.cyberus.ca/~sustain1/Question/GPI.html
http://www.rprogress.org/projects/gpi/
Author Dave Pollard's idealistic blog on his ideas of how to save the world:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/11/29.html#a969
I personally, think there is probably something that the GPI is missing because it does not show a substantial drop from 1950 to today.
I would expect to see a huge drop since there are much less resources per capita. I think that life on earth is overall worse than 1950 by far.
The GDP suggests our wellbeing has more than doubled since 1950, which is absurd. For one, we have lost millions of hectares of pristine old growth forest since 1950.
What are your opinions?
GPI apparently takes into account resource depletion, crime, household and leisure time, pollution, wealth distribution, lifepsan of consumer goods, dependence on foreign imports, etc...
which are all ignored by GDP.
Definitions of GPI:
http://www.cyberus.ca/~sustain1/Question/GPI.html
http://www.rprogress.org/projects/gpi/
Author Dave Pollard's idealistic blog on his ideas of how to save the world:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/11/29.html#a969
I personally, think there is probably something that the GPI is missing because it does not show a substantial drop from 1950 to today.
I would expect to see a huge drop since there are much less resources per capita. I think that life on earth is overall worse than 1950 by far.
The GDP suggests our wellbeing has more than doubled since 1950, which is absurd. For one, we have lost millions of hectares of pristine old growth forest since 1950.
What are your opinions?