The Economics of Happiness
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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Going Local is the Way to Repair our Fractured World - our Ecosystems, our Societies and our Selves. -
Length 68 minutes
Produced by Helena Norberg-Hodge, 2011 (founder & director of Local Futures)
Written and directed by Steven Gorelick, John Page & Helena Norberg-Hodge
Narrated by John Page
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people around the world are resisting those policies - and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human-scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of localization.
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Also available for free download is our 74-page Discussion Guide and Companion to the film, a resource designed for student use and informal discussion groups. It follows the film, chapter by chapter, expanding on the arguments and pointing to a wealth of new resources for further learning, reflection and action. To download the pdf, go to: www.localfutur...
The film has been translated into 26 languages. Find your language here: www.localfutur...
ENDORSEMENTS:
"A powerful film that cuts deeply to the heart of the global crisis. Magnificent!"
David Suzuki, TV presenter and environmentalist
"This passionate film presents a clear and articulate vision of what a shift in the scale at which we do things would look like… timely and powerful."
Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Town movement
"What's our favorite documentary of all time? The one film we wish everyone could see? Hands down, this is it. It is truly one of the most important and useful films for inspiring change that has been made in a generation."
Films for Action
"This film connects the dots between climate chaos, economic meltdown, and our own personal suffering."
Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self
AWARDS:
Best Direction, EKOFilm 2011, Czech Republic
Best in Show, Cinema Verde Film Festival
Golden Palm Award, Mexico International Film Festival
Judges' Selection (Theme of Human Unity), Auroville Film Festival, India
Audience Selection (Theme of Human Unity), Auroville Film Festival, India
Bronze Award, Oregon Environmental Film Festival
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I have seen this for 3 or more times. Every time i can get a new idea for my own live out of it.
This video makes it pretty clear what imense problem globalisation of the economy causes & how we can fix it.
Need to watch this, for our final exam
ASEAN ways?
Did u find a summary somewhere? Because same.
Thank you so much for making this available to watch. A brilliant re-education and much needed nudge to take action now.
19510 views
Millions need to watch this...
Jessica from The Veronicas brought me here. This is a brilliant film, something that we all ought to be doing instead of supporting multi-national corporations. Let's start supporting more grass roots business enterprises.
Finally! Full doc. Will more likely donate this way.
So Important!
A Christmas present! Thank you 🙏
At 21:03, it is mentioned that butter from here in New Zealand, costs less than butter locally produced there in the UK. In the UK, when you do a currency conversion, they pay less for our butter than we do here in New Zealand. It is the same when it comes to our beef, with many people in New Zealand not being able to afford our locally produced dairy and beef, and end up buying imported products because it's cheaper. This is absolutely twisted and ridiculous, but also intentional.
Don’t care
It's just sad.
Best Regards to the Organizing Committee Namaste Sir and Respected Panelist Thanks and Regards Happy Thanksgiving
A great film presenting a critical view on globalisation. Useful resource for classroom.
and then what. Will you seek out some do-able alternatives the pupils can follow up with, and measure their follow up?
To watch again and again ❤ and share 💕
I'm happy to find this video - fundamental human needs - interdependence on each other! The community connections, social belongings and our connections with nature.
thanks, nice collation of a potential solution to the conflicts of current system/progress
Thank you for this document!
Bu bir video veya belgesel
Belge degil
I can really see this take off the day we tap out all of our natural resource.
COVID-19 taught us something. Most humans still refuse to learn.
I think that most humans are learning - and quickly. But the power to change a system on the large scale is in the hands of very few humans that have no incentive to give away their money and power. But I believe that the one good thing that came with globalization in the end was the spread of communication technology. With this we all learn faster and learn from each other.
The last couple of years have seen a fairly sudden big change in mindset
Yes, we learn together..
Makes me wonder what the point of industrialization was in the grand scheme of things, if we’re just going to go full circle in terms of reestablishing a regenerative relationship with the land again, localizing, and reintegrating Indigenous wisdom, you know?
Like, we were once one with the Earth, living off the land, everything from biology, economics, psychology, spirituality, etc was integrated. Then we industrialized and knowledge became fragmented and siloed - we did some damage to the Earth but we birthed the internet, smartphones, computers, all the conveniences of modernity… just to go full circle? To collectively witness the unraveling of the world we’ve built and the emergence of a more resilient one?
I mean, there’s probably no cosmically ordained “reason” for industrialization to have happened, it’s just a chapter in the emergent process of life, but I am curious how it and globalization will be remembered. Someone on Twitter proposed that perhaps the comforts and abundance of modernity was to compensate for the past trauma of never having enough, altho tbh the Ladakhs looked pretty happy before the trucks started rolling in
@@tanaminogarashiwell said! You wrote this beautifully. I was literally thinking the same thing. In just 20 years we did more damage and that speaks volumes on how damaging industrialization and globalization did us and our planet. I have been saying to the people on Twitter to start focusing on their communities and stop caring about the celebrities and higher ups who do not care about our problems back home.
One does need to watch
Thank you and very inspiring.
Great film thanks
I am happy some people are making path to future if there is any.
Peoples happiness grows with economic growth until certain point. After it, it stays the same. Almost half of all people are already having enough by this measure to be that happy. Only the people richer than their neighbours being a little happier than others. Richer people in the neighborhoods where others are even richer than them are not happier.
Everybody wants more, even though in reality they don't need it. They make themselves miserable just to have more. They end with the opposite of what they wanted while getting more. Those richer than their neighbours are the ones who don't fell the presure of proving themselves. Also, refusing to be the part of this is how you got rich in the forst place.
Just too informative and good. 🚩🇮🇳🚩
great documentary!
"Material reward has never brought us happiness"
I think the narrator's voice is that of John Pilger (RIP); if it is him please, @LocalFutures, have the respect to acknowledge him adequately, it's not John Page, thanks.
34:00. Corporations make money by selling products to individual people.
Every person makes a choice in consumption.
Every person has power.
Corporation are business created by people.
There is plenty of old footage (ten years plus) in this film, to make it outdated. Today, in July 2022, in my little New England town where we practice more local economy than this film suggest, we STILL have a long way to go, before we can live through a Winter without getting food trucked in, let alone the myriads of other thing one needs, such as basic tools. No matter HOW small one's foot print is, peoples of ALL cultures have traded. Across vast geographic areas. A film like this must go in 2022 beyond putting the former Ladakh on a pedestal. The majority of this film points fingers at the corporations. It should make local residents - and everybody is one - contemplate , which model or course of action (to mobilize each other) - they CAN take. Too many residents have NOT caught on, and are simply too lazy to choose self-reliance. They forgot what Happiness actually IS. The card house of corporations WILL fall, once the People decline to participate in corporate "economies". Please go the next extra mile and create a film wherein more REAL people, not tourist ladies, are shown shopping at Farmers Markets. The motive to create this film was good. It is not enough. I will buy an updated version , or a sequel to this film. Not this one. Please help educate the public less about corporations' misdeeds; they know that and lost trust in the system, but please help the public connect dots with actual links so they can create Local Think and Do Tanks.
So what’s your suggestion to a community that needs to start? Who do we go to? How do we talk to the mayor and politicians in our local area for this change.
You ask "Who do you/we go to?" My reply is: "Go INSIDE. Yourself". Participate in what wants to happen, not what you get handed down or are told to do. ~ Self-organizing "organisms" survive and eventually thrive. That in includes entire societies. My comment contains many suggestions on what the film could have shown. It is not my intention to advise how (specific) cultures ought to "evolve" upon being massively impacted by the paradigms of industrialization, the media and tourism. "The major" is one person, elected and dependent on others in "Town Hall" yes? I say: "just talk to them. The how to or what about to talk to them, must originate from you and cohorts. BE the change... be a politicians, an activist, a change maker on small or large issues. This is sent to you by a ling time activist and communitarian, who has found and finds cohorts and like minded people everywhere. And yes, change is being made, communities emerge virtual and brick and mortar. A very effective tools is the work of Lynne McTaggart : "The Power of Eight" Avail as book and audio. She has created a global (scientific) tool and movement wherein people manifest anything - through group intention. Including decline of crime, and stopping war, purifying water, and much more. @@sexiestargirl
SUCCESS & HAPPINESS
"If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are. "
1:04:00
Nice.
I want to live on the land and restart the wheel
How can i get subtitle for this video ?
Everything has two sides. Globalization stems from the greedy nature of capital. However, globalization has also speeded up numerous advances in human civilization. If capitalism is inevitable for human, there is no way to stop it.
i observe an interesting contrast between what andrew says here (29:14) and lierre keith says* in the great documentary "bright green lies" (around 1 hr. 4 min.) is noteworthy. they both talk about 2 different ways of giving afterthought priority to "the people" - andrew's is observing of the powerful Business associates with excessive selfishness, and lierre's is about the poor, defenseless environment who is being destroyed by that greed
*ua-cam.com/video/t71rS7067aY/v-deo.html
Is a transcript available?
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Please, translate to portuguese. Here in UA-cam don't have a legend to this documentary.
oh, sorry, I found the video with legend in portuguese. Thanks! ua-cam.com/video/pX3SRJd-AX8/v-deo.html
Subtitle please
subtitle please
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You're doing great. Keep it up
Some segments in the video are stamped not adjacent to each other
Angle Priya here
35:00
Nice pic dear
29:42
36:37
Just another anti-capitalism documentary where is the guide on how to evade taxes?
Totally agree on your point.
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12:32
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only 20 mins if your wondering :)