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Why Costa Rica scores well on the happiness index
 Costa Ricans have a high life expectancy - 78.5 years - and a low ecological footprint, although the NEF says it still needs to do better. Some analysts question the validity of such international surveys, in part because they rely on self-reported happiness. And some non-governmental organisations, like COHA in Washington, question Costa Rica's green credentials when the government recently allowed a Canadian company to start open cast mining for gold. But greenness does seem to permeate both public policy and the private lives of Costa Ricans. The country pioneered a carbon tax in 1997 which is used in part to pay landowners and indigenous communities about $65 (£...
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Is There an Ecological Unconscious?
... document addressed the supposed emotional costs of ecological decline: anxiety, despair, numbness, “a sense of being overwhelmed or powerless,” grief. ...
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