GDP-focused metrics omit environmental and health factors that now render major cities near uninhabitable

Evidence

Going beyond the GDP, some scholars created an expanded set of quality-of-life indicators grounded not only in commercial values but in environmental and human values (Stiglitz, Sen, & Fitoussi, 2015). Some of these indicators include quality of national health, educational advancement, employment opportunities, and equity. With growing environmental degradation, quality of the lived environment gains importance. In some major cities, such as Delhi and Beijing, the air is so heavily polluted that the cities are near uninhabitable (Sedghi, 2015, Wainwright, 2014). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2964

Categorization

• SHARE: The Delhi/Beijing near-uninhabitable claim is a striking concrete datum for anyone working on environmental degradation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2964