Norway no longer ‘best place to live’
December 15, 2020
NEWS ANALYSIS: Oil has long fueled Norway’s hugely successful welfare state, but now it’s helped knock the country off the top of the UN’s annual list of the world’s best places to live, when adjusted for “planetary pressures.” The UN is now taking countries’ carbon footprints and their impact on consumption into account, and both
are viewed as harming the quality of life.
Norwegians are a flag-waving bunch, but there’s not as much to cheer about after release of the UN’s new Human Development Index. PHOTO: Bergen 2017/Trinadh Rakesh