In the video below, we interview Ida Kubiszewski, Robert Costanza, and Joseph Eastoe, three of the researchers behind the article “Building consensus on societal wellbeing: a semantic synthesis of indicators to move beyond GDP.”
The researchers walk us through why GDP, while long used as the world’s headline measure of progress, tells only part of the story. GDP tracks how fast money moves, but not whether people’s lives are improving or ecosystems thriving.
This video is part of our ongoing series to build consensus for moving beyond GDP. As this is a complex and evolving conversation condensed into a few minutes, not every aspect can be covered: we aim to make the debate accessible, not settled.
