Articles by Robert Constanza
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The Solutions Generation
Robert Constanza – Al Jazeera,
31 Oct 2011
The next generation will have to bring about major transitions in order to build a more sustainable future. The Arab Spring, and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, are indications of growing unhappiness with the state of the world, especially in the younger generation. As Paul Krugman has pointed out, Americans are finally getting angry at the right people – the financial and corporate elites that currently govern the United States, and who have caused the ongoing economic crisis.
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Robert Constanza – Al Jazeera,
19 Sep 2011
In Bhutan, progress is measured by how happy people are, not how much wealth people have. An oil spill, for example, increases GDP because someone has to clean it up, but it obviously detracts from well-being. More crime, more sickness, more war, more pollution, more fires, storms and pestilence are all potentially positives for GDP because they can cause an increase in economic activity. GDP also takes no account of how the national income is distributed among people, ignoring the fact that a dollar’s worth of income produces more well-being for a poor person than a rich one.
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