Our economy has become a “self-licking ice cream cone” — it is designed as a linear chain of excessive consumption and waste leading to environmental destruction, inequality through externalized costs, and ultimately sub-optimal happiness.

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Keywords & Nodes

• sustainability
• policy
• society
• economics
• culture
• Happiness can create a better world.
• 8. The World Out There
• Lack of connection to the natural world may contribute to a lack of happiness.
• The biopsychosocial model explains that biological, psychological, and social factors explain one’s health (and happiness).
• RESOURCE The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Mate