Blog me...curiosity redefined

This blog is inspired and taken from the UPLIFT video on ' The Economics of Happiness '.       The Governments today are short sighted as they look for 5 years planning when they should be planning for at least 2-3 generations from us. In our pursuit of greed and getting wealthy we have lost our true purpose of being born. Human beings were born to preserve and appreciate the nature along with other animals in this ecosystem. We seemed to have forgotten it.        Economics in simple terms mean allocation of resources efficiently for all of us to sustain and survive in a better environment. Remembering that earth's resources are limited would help us realize our mistakes faster. We are to unlearn something in order learn something new. The focus of the industrialization has always been to make profit using people, which seems the unfortunate thing.        Mankind is supposed to become the caretaker of this universe. Are we? Ou...

        At the end of the day, what matters is if we are giving back an ecosystem that our children are proud of? In simple terms, can the air they breathe, water they drink, food they eat be of good quality as we do now?  In our pursuit to compete and outsmart one another, we are destroying the natural resources that are available to us. At this trend, what will our next generation have? Hope you don't want them to rehabilitate to Mars or find another galaxy like milky way in another universe. Photo courtesy - Internet         What can we do to avoid this? At the corporate level, can we imbibe the values to conserve and protect our depleting natural resources? Should we follow the Bhutan way of carbon-free country? If so, our understanding of economical progress will be wrong. GDP or GNP will not an appropriate index to measure economic progress instead we need to look for Gross National Happiness Index(GNH). As simple as our quality o...