Uruguayan president Jose Mujica at Rio +20 Summit

                                                        (In Spanish with English subtitles) (article)

Address by Uruguayan president Jose Mujica at Rio +20 Summit
Human happiness and the environment
Summary
From the article, l felt how stupid we, humans, are.
I’ve heard that the president of Uruguay who lives in a mountain alone but in a small house made of woods is the poorest president in the world, though, the poorest people are us who couldn't think about anything that he thinks.

The world has this beautiful and great meeting every year, though, people continue seeking economic development, buying a lot of stuff, using energies, and saying that we have to tackle the problem of the environment.

We have to realize that we are in a vicious cycle where we think that economic development and having much money and stuff make us happy. The world always shows that the number of GDP is important. The simple question is that its enormous consumption can solve the problem of the environment.  This must be a political problem thus the cycle can’t be solved and the environment isn’t improved.

We, humans, have to think about our own way of thoughts and life for our true happiness first.

Words in this story
wretched /adj/ (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.
vicious /adj/ deliberately cruel or violent.