Thanks to Dr. Paul Ray for distributing this through our State of the World Forum discussion list: http://www.happyplanetindex.org As the G8 prepare to meet in Italy this week, the second global ranking of the ecological efficiency with which the world’s nations deliver long and happy lives for the people who live there – the ‘Happy Planet Index’ – reveals a surprising picture of the relative wealth and progress of nations. Latin America tops the Index with Costa Rica the ‘greenest and happiest’ country. Nine of the ten highest-scoring nations are Latin American The USA, China and India were all ‘greener…
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