Monday, September 24, 2012

"The World of Happiness Report" Part 1







In John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs report: “The World of Happiness Report (2012) it’s a book that explains that is possible to reach a state of world happiness through the different steps listed in it. Helliwell, Layard, and Sachs inform their readers that world happiness is important for the world related to economy, environment and other issues. They made this report to encourage other countries to change their objectives and goals to world happiness. We believe the intended audience is anyone who wants world happiness or is for it.

Overall after reading the report, I agree with the idea of world happiness. To us it’s inspiring to see someone so passionate and driven about what goes on in the world and its well-being. I also believe this motivates and give hope to people who have given up on the world.

We believe the main focus of Helliwell, Layard, and Sachs report was that the overall happiness and well-being of the world and the people who live in it, affect what type of society and environment we live in. So if we maintain a safe and stable environment the increase the quality of life people have and increase their happiness, the world would be in a better place. They state “we can do this by adopting styles and technologies that improve happiness (or life satisfaction) while reducing human damage to the environment” (91). Basically there saying that we need to come up with new technology that doesn’t cause human damage to the environment we live in, but increases are happiness.



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