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And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what were doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern indu...

The government of bhutan, i should say the king of bhutan about 30 years ago realized that a process of development, of economic development, was great. It would pull millions of people out of poverty. People wouldnt starve to death, but it wasnt enough for human flourishing. So instead of counting narrowly the amount of money people had per capita, he had the idea of trying to measure the amount of happiness. He started an index called Gross National happiness. Thats wher he started an index called Gross National happiness. That is where the expression comes from. Host what did he find . Gues...

Less likely to be happy. And some of the most miserable places in the world are places where people die of starvation and preventable diseases. Once you get beyond basic subsistence, the four things that bring happiness are faith, family, friends and work. Those are the things we have to keep in mind those are part of human flourishing. Host from your book Gross National happiness, this is a book about americas happiness. Doing sums across our population, can we say that the United States is a happy country . Whats your answer to that question . Guest the answer is generally, yes. Now theres s...

Life, but they werent sufficient and so some of the things of cultural integrity, of family values, of being able to maintain ones faith, ones faith in god, that these are the things people needed for a truly flourishing life. And in so doing in a developing country, had a lot of lessons for the rest of us. Host can you measure happiness via economic success . Guest no. You can find some predeterminants for having a relatively good life by looking at economic indicators, but that doesnt get you far enough. There are really four things that can lead us to happiness and they dont involve money p...

They got a very you know tough, but fair view of the president. And they had a contented rid owe that their audience would enjoy mplt and, so its worked for them. And other people have, you know, other out lets on different sorts of proposalings. But these are Media Companies. And they have different theyre going to engauge their audience. Were those really Vice President s bidens chains . I dont think they were actually the Vice President. But if it turns out they were the Vice President , i will stweet off the answer when i get to the white house. Any regrets . No, it was fun. People see the...