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What Really Counts

A Film by Kent Martin

I have really enjoyed watching this documentary. People need hope
and alternatives as their daily bread.


Dame Marilyn Waring
author of If Women Counted

The real measure of a society is not the number of obscenely wealthy

people and the GDP, but the status of the poorest, weakest, most

vulnerable among us.  That's what Ron Colman, Jigme Thinley and the

GNH are about.

Dr. David Suzuki

Scientist, Writer and Broadcaster

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been called the most important statistic in human history. But many think our reliance on this statistic -

along with its demand for eternal economic growth - is leading humanity down a path of war, poverty, extreme climate change and species

extinctions, including our own. In this time of great uncertainty

What Really Counts tells the story of two people trying to change the

course of human history.

 

We go on a journey from the West to the East through the world of global economics with Ronald Colman, a visionary political scientist from

Canada and Jigme Y Thinley, the former Prime Minister of the

Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. One developed a Genuine Progress

Index (GPI) for Nova Scotia and the other initiated the policy of

Gross National Happiness (GNH) in Bhutan.

 

Both focused on methods for measuring the well being of humanity to supplant the GDP. They have spent decades – working in local

communities and in sovereign states and then taking their ideas all the

way to the United Nations - working together trying to change the

destructive way of thinking about economics predicated on the idea of continual growth. They helped to bring sanity and hope to our planet

with a simple common sense vision in suggesting we count

What Really Counts.

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