The connection between sustainability and happiness is often overlooked and misunderstood in our current culture since it prioritizes short-term material things that do not provide us with long-term happiness. This happens because material objects provide a small boost of happiness that we then move on from quickly to then, go to the next thing that will do the same. No source of happiness that can only provide it for a couple of moments will ever be sustainable since it is not true happiness but simply the excitation from having a new belonging. As Matthieu Ricard says, humans eventually…