Cameron made a fascinating point in 2010when he stated that despite enormous growth in the average living standards in the U.S. and Britain in the last 50 years, the average happiness has not increased. His statement makes the practice of only measuring a country’s success by its GDP seem narrow and constricted. I truly wonder what the U.S.’s report on GNH would look like and what would happen if the government put as much emphasis on improving GNH as GDP.

While community involvement may mean a corporation providing disaster relief in Haiti, it could also mean corporations involving themselves in elections and using their financial resources to help elect officials who have the ability to change laws that benefit their bottom line at the expense of the population. I think this issue is important now more than ever, given the case of Citizens United v. FEC in 2010, which overturned campaign finance laws and said, “that corporations have a constitutional right to spend unlimited amounts of money to promote or defeat candidates.”

Aside from the scientific challenges of this theory, the idea of altering the already sensitive oceanic ecosystem for profit is terrifying to me. The impacts of such endeavors are difficult to foresee and require extensive research and planning prior to implementation if they are to be truly beneficial. The complex marine food web is not something to be experimented with for capital gains.