全球幸福指数讲稿【DOC精选】.doc

TED演讲：全球幸福指数（英文原稿） For too long, we have peddled a nightmarish vision of whats going to happen. We have focused on the worst-case scenario. We have focused on the problems. And we have not thought enough about the solutions. Weve used fear, if you like, to grab peoples attention. And any psychologist will tell you that fear in the organism is linked to flight mechanism. Its part of the fight and flight mechanism, that when an animal is frightened -- think of a deer. A deer freezes very, very still, poised to run away. And I think thats what were doing when were asking people to engage with our agenda around environmental degradation and climate change. People are freezing and running away because were using fear. And I think the environmental movement has to grow up and start to think about what progress is. What would it be like to be improving the human lot? And one of the problems that we face, I think, is that the only people that have cornered the market in terms of progress is a financial definition of what progress is, an economic definition of what progress is -- that somehow, if we get the right numbers to go up, were going to be better off, whether thats on the stock market, whether thats with GDP and economic growth, that somehow life is going to get better. This is somehow appealing to human greed instead of fear -- that more is better. Come on. In the Western world, we have enough. Maybe some parts of the world dont, but we have enough. And weve know for a long time that this is not a good measure of the welfare of nations. In fact, the architect of our national accounting system, Simon Kuznets, in the 1930s, said that, A nations welfare can scarcely be inferred from their national income. But weve created a national accounting system which is firmly based on production and producing stuff. And indeed, this is probably historical, and it had its time. In the second World War, we needed to produce a lot of stuff. And indeed, we were so successful at p