I realized that we had had a very happy afternoon and done a tiny fraction of the environmental damage done by a typical afternoon of golf followed by a dip in the club pool. No bulldozers were used to make the Linnaea course. No trees were cut down; no sand hauled in; no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides or irrigation were used. I guessed that we had achieved at least the same level of happiness with less than one thousandth of the environmental damage.Read the full article.
Author William Hertling's musings about science fiction, artificial intelligence, web and social media.
HappoDammo Ratio: Happiness Generated divided by Damage Caused
For years I've heard Gifford Pinchot talk about the HappoDammo ratio, so it's nice to see him finally put it into written words:
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