More Questions than Answers Re: Happiness that doesn’t cost the Earth
Dear Editor,
The article states that incomes above $100,000 have detrimental effects on happiness.
Will putting a ceiling on incomes at $100,000 make people more happy or make more people happy?
What are environment friendly behaviours?
- Give up night life and be in bed at sunset?
- Give up all activities other than those leading to productivity?
- Stop all research which does not lead to feeding and protecting lives: research such as in the fields of fundamental particles and space science, to name a few?
- Reversing population growth to bring the population to some presumed optimum numbers?
Environmental degradation will probably stop if humans will adapt ways of animals and birds, even better - the ways of plants!
It is said that the arrow of time cannot be reversed; probably it is true for human development too.
Article does not suggest which activities should be avoided and what activities should replace them.
It is easier to find fault than to suggest viable and beneficial remedies!
Arvind Joshi,
MBBS MD FCGP FAMS FICP.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
19 October 2022
Arvind Joshi
Convener Our Own Discussion Group, Consultant Physician
Our Own Discussion Group Mumbai PIN 400028, Ruchi Clinical Laboratory and Ruchi Diagnostic Centre Kharghar PIN 410210 Maharashtra India
Mumbai PIN 400028, Kharghar PIN 410210, Maharashtra India
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More Questions than Answers Re: Happiness that doesn’t cost the Earth
Dear Editor,
The article states that incomes above $100,000 have detrimental effects on happiness.
Will putting a ceiling on incomes at $100,000 make people more happy or make more people happy?
What are environment friendly behaviours?
- Give up night life and be in bed at sunset?
- Give up all activities other than those leading to productivity?
- Stop all research which does not lead to feeding and protecting lives: research such as in the fields of fundamental particles and space science, to name a few?
- Reversing population growth to bring the population to some presumed optimum numbers?
Environmental degradation will probably stop if humans will adapt ways of animals and birds, even better - the ways of plants!
It is said that the arrow of time cannot be reversed; probably it is true for human development too.
Article does not suggest which activities should be avoided and what activities should replace them.
It is easier to find fault than to suggest viable and beneficial remedies!
Arvind Joshi,
MBBS MD FCGP FAMS FICP.
Competing interests: No competing interests