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Article: Finding real wealth: twice the value for half the resources.(Green Living)
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- Natural Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Taken as a whole, we North Americans are overfed but undernourished. Socially, psychologically and physically, we are not fully meeting human needs. Although the TV commercials would have us believe that every itch can be scratched with a trip to the mall, the truth is we're consuming more now but enjoying it less. According to surveys taken by the U.S. National Science Foundation for the past 30 years, even with steady increases in income, our level of overall happiness has actually tapered off.
Why? Many believe it's because a lifestyle of over-consumption creates deficiencies in things that we really need, like health, social ...