I picked up a tweet from Oxfam Scotland about the above index. They have a survey available for people to complete, I’ve already done so. It doesn’t take long.
The reason for creating this index and survey is to assess the things that make us “happy”. It’s about your health and well-being, your relationships with family and friends, the physical environment in which you live, do you have job security, enough money to meet your bills etc.
The more people that participate in this survey, the more “real” it will be and less chance of it being based on the views of an elite few. This will enable any political administration to focus on what really matters to people, to make more informed decisions on what we want, the kind of society we want to live in.
The Index is about trying to ensure that policies are produced that serve the real prosperity of the country and not ones that try to advance economic growth, regardless of the cost on communities or our environment. It’s about making sure the economy serve us, not the other way around.
It’s also about changing the way we see ourselves as individuals, moving away from seeing the “stuff” we have as a sign of how well we are doing to a wider sense of what makes us feel OK in our lives.
You could say that the Oxfam Humankind Index is about creating a context not where people sacrifice their relationships and environment to keep up with the Jones’s… but where they celebrate and nurture their relationships with the Jones’s and the environment impacting on them!
Please take the time to complete this survey by clicking here.
