The GDP Song
This song, in which lots of bad things happen but everybody sings cheerfully because the bad things make the GDP go up, has a very long subtitle — but you’ll have to buy the “Whole Lotta Shoppin’ Goin’ On” CD to read that.
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- New blog post summarizes recent lectures by Fukuda-Parr & Williams in Stockholm on the power & danger of indicators: alanatkisson.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/ind… 1 day ago
- Inspiring to listen to these two brilliant, senior women dissecting our "love affair with numbers". Great vision!! http://t.co/XbnebIHnyl 2 days ago
- Beautiful lecture by Mariama Williams on the "earthquake" of development + climate, references lifebeyondgrowth.org http://t.co/VUbdfoSYqk 2 days ago
- Brilliant lecture by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: MDGs and simple indicators led to unintended problems harvardfxbcenter.org/power-of-numbe… http://t.co/PCmcdyr9US 2 days ago
- Friends at Gigatonne Lab have giant plans (the size we need) to reduce emissions by 1 GT Co2e in 2 years - tinyurl.com/c5u69an #400ppm 5 days ago
- Terrific presentation by Karen Weigert, Dir of Sust, City of Chicago. Much better than the city's website! #issp2013 cityofchicago.org/city/en/progs/… 1 week ago
- In Chicago: doing research for my book, gathering audio samples for the album (voices), and, uh, getting "inducted." 3bl.me/kts8mg 1 week ago
