1st August 2023
How often do we look around the world and think, “There must be a better way of doing things!”?
One group, The Wellbeing Economy Alliance, thinks there is:
“A Wellbeing Economy is an economy designed to serve people and the planet, not the other way around. Rather than treating economic growth as an end in and of itself and pursuing it at all costs, a Wellbeing Economy puts our human and planetary needs at the centre of its activities, ensuring that these needs are all equally met, by default. In a Wellbeing Economy, our definition of societal success shifts Beyond GDP growth to delivering shared wellbeing.” https://weall.org/what-is-wellbeing-economy
They suggest, amongst other things, that we need a change of Mindset. From the old way: “The dominant mindset is that there is no alternative to neoliberal capitalism and business as usual” to a new way: “The dominant mindset is that thousands of alternatives for designing economies exist – it is in our power to design economies differently. Economies should have human and environmental wellbeing as their focus. Innovation is the norm.”
If we have a clearer idea of what alternatives are possible, perhaps we can be more effective in making better demands of our politicians – particularly in the run up to elections.
The Green Tau 