to claim that the environment is improving

Moreover, the narrow pursuit of GDP growth can actually damage the factors that create happiness. For example, many parts of China have welcomed polluting industries for the sake of economic growth, resulting in air and water contamination, higher rates of illness – and a decline in day-to-day well-being. What is the point of this kind of economic growth?
This question is not unique to China. Some nations have gone so far as to propose replacing GDP with Gross National Happiness (GNH) – easy to calculate by combining indices measuring GDP, public health, social welfare, culture and environmental quality.GHD Straightener Bhutan has already adopted the idea of GNH into national policymaking, leading it to cap the number of tourists allowed to visit the country each year in order to limit environmental and social impacts. As a result, Bhutan's per-capita GDP is low, but it has become, many argue, the world's "happiest nation".
In China, Guangdong has taken the lead in moving away from GDP-focused development and stressing that a happy society is not simply a rich one: it also needs a clean environment, secure civil rights, social justice and the provision of public and cultural goods. The implications of this are worth considering.
But while the idea of Gross National Happiness is now taken seriously, its implementation in China still faces obstacles. Take one component – environmental indices – as an example. Over recent years, China has seen continuous reports of heavy-metal pollution, algal blooms, sprawling landfills and air pollution. Cheap GHD But the environmental authorities have used reported reductions in chemical oxygen demand (a measure of water pollution) and carbon-dioxide emissions to claim that the environment is improving.