Politics

Out of context: Reply #14087

  • Started
  • Last post
  • 33,770 Responses
  • liamh0

    David Cameron looking to include alternative measures of progress other than GDP. Now moving to subjective measures of wellbeing along with GDP to form a more complete the picture of progress in the UK.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-118…

    All very good in my mind, however, the zero sum game that is economic grow as meauresed by GDP is still their primary concern - to my mind not a good thing. But he is saying some interesting things that seem to be opening a debate about some of the issues surrounding our obsession with growth...

    liamh 0Permalink
    UpvoteDownvote
    Flag
    • obsession with growth? You really don't understand what your saying do you?
      ********
    • if there was no growth you wouldn't be typing on a computer nor have the internet
      ********
    • You can thank Al Gore for that buddyqoob
    • unfourtuantly i do, and i am well aware of the the implication of no growth. Just worte my masters theses on it. The implications of continued growth are quite scary...liamh
    Show [[ numHiddenNotes ]] more notesAdd Note
    SaveCancel

View thread