Today the UK-based New Economics Foundation announced that the tiny nation of Vanuatu, a Happy Isle of Oceania, topped a new index measuring the quality of life against environmental impact.
”People are generally happy, because they are satisfied with very little”, said a local reporter for the Vanuatu Online.
The CIA wrote a report of Vanuatu.
Oil Consumption – 620 bbl/day This has to make you happy at 75$/barrel
GDP = $580 million, which is what the bald men of New York City spend on hair care per annum.
There is no military, although the old TV show MCHALE’S NAVY was set in the New Hebrides.
No available data on labor force. No work sounds good to me.
But they do like to fly off towers.
Probably scares the unhappiness. Climbing one looks like a fright too. These guys tie a natural bungee cord to their ankle to prevent them from piledriving into the ground. Something tells me this safety precaution doesn’t always work. Just a hunch. Hey, but if it makes you happy, what the heck?
The West didn’t score in the top 40 with the USA slumming at 150 next to Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Zimbabwe understandably finished last.
Thailand scored 34th next to China and Peru.
See complete results http://www.happyplanetindex.org/list.htm
The NEF professes that their Happy Planet Index allows life to come before wealth.
“So are you happy?”
This simple question has confounded mankind for ages and wheareas money can’t buy happiness, I’m fairly certain the right amount can rent a state of euphoria for a short time. Thailand is famously titled the Land of Smiles and Thais seem happy most of the time. A little whiskey, a bag of insects, and it’s a party. The Declaration of Independence declares America’s goals to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Cold beer, BBQ, party.
Jigme Singye Wangchuck the king of Bhutan declared at his 1972 coronation that “Gross National Happiness” was more important than Gross Domestic Product. Las Vegas’ weekly take supercedes the forest-laden country’s GDP of $2.7 billion, but Wangchuck focuses on the four pillars of GNH: economic self-reliance, a pristine environment, the preservation and promotion of Bhutan’s culture, and good governance for his country of 810,000 to 2.2 million (estimates vary greatly).
Bhutan comes in 13th
No country scored the ideal and any of the three indicators and there’s plenty of room for improvement.
More sanuk. More happy. Sabaii dee mak.
And when all else fails take this pill.
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