[Gem]

Starting with each individual, and how they apply their personal energy; their motivation and their physical activity is the primary concern because human intent is the foundation of future society. This, in itself, is a complicated matter because people have the right to think and expend themselves as they see fit.

The underlying problem with civilisation is, people adapt to survive in a global economy by being conditioned through living in a society which is misguided to the degree where the greatest risk to humanity species is humanity itself.

While scientists and engineers scramble for alternative sources of energy to fuel this economy, the primary energy source, which is human motivation, continues to go unchecked, and quite obviously, the future of any person, and hence all of mankind, is fundamentally determined by personal motivation.

The Dalai Lama said that all people want to be happy, which basically makes sense, so in an overly simplistic sense it could be said that all motivation is, in some way, driven by wanting to be happy - the pursuit of happiness. This seems to be more like a pursuit of pleasure, and the towering economy of pleasure is not sustainable simply because that which brings pleasure will pass, and when it does, the happiness ends. The pursuit then continues, and this motivation begets an unsustainable and self destructive human civilisation.

The basic question I think isn't 'what makes people happy' because 'what' is necessarily in passing - The question is more like, what is key to human happiness? - And there's a difference between being motivated by wanting to be happy, and being motivated by happiness itself...