【TED演讲】全球幸福指数（3/9)

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Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised.
         
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        the New Economics Foundation
        the Happy Planet Index
       
         
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And actually, social scientists have already gone out and asked these questions around the world. This is from a global survey. It's asking people, what do they want. And unsurprisingly, people all around the world say that what they want is happiness, for themselves, for their families, their children, their communities. Okay, they think money is slightly important. It's there, but it's not nearly as important as happiness, and it's not nearly as important as love. We all need to love and be loved in life. It's not nearly as important as health. We want to be healthy and live a full life. These seem to be natural human aspirations. Why are statisticians not measuring that? Why are we not thinking of the progress of nations in these terms, instead of just how much stuff we have? And really, this is what I've done with my adult life -- is think about how do we measure happiness, how do we measure well-being, how can we do that within environmental limits. And we created, at the organization that I work for, the New Economics Foundation, something we call the Happy Planet Index, because we think people should be happy and the planet should be happy. Why don't we create a measure of progress that shows that? And what we do, is we say that the ultimate outcome of a nation is how successful is it at creating happy and healthy lives for its citizens. That should be the goal of every nation on the planet. But we have to remember that there's a fundamental input to that, and that is how many of the planet's resources we use. We all have one planet. We all have to share it. It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share. And economics is very interested in scarcity.而事实上，社会学家都在向全世界提出这样的疑问。这是源于全球调查。这是在问人们，他们想要什么。不出意外的，全世界都想要的是幸福，是给他们自己的幸福，也是给家庭孩子和社会的。他们的确是觉得钱有点重要，但跟幸福和爱相比是微不足道。我们生活中需要的是爱与被爱。这和健康不一样。我们希望健康的活一辈子。这些都是人类天生的渴望。为什么统计学家不衡量这些标准？为什么我们不从这些标准来考虑国家的进步，取而代之的是我们生产的东西？事实上，这也是我一直在做的事情，就是如何衡量幸福，如何衡量满足感，我们如何不在破坏环境下做到这点。在我工作的地方，我们创造了新的经济基金会，我们称之为全球幸福指数的指标，是因为我们认为人们应该快乐整个地球都应该感到快乐。我们为什么不建立一个指标来衡量这方面的进步呢？我们做的就是让大家知道，一个国家进步的最终成果是如何成功的创造快乐，使人民的生活幸福。这应该是每个国家的目标。但我们也要记住它有个基础元素，那就是我们消耗多少资源。我们只有一个地球，我们必须共享。我们的地球就是最后的稀缺资源。经济学对稀有的东西是很感兴趣的。