People need hope and alternatives as their daily bread."
Dame Marilyn Waring
author of If Women Count
WHAT REALLY COUNTS
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 vision of common sense in suggesting we count What Really Counts.
