“We are not interested in gross national product, we’re interested in gross national happiness,” said the 34-years-old Bhutan King. Bhutan, a landlocked country, the size of 14,824 square miles (38,394 square kilometers) is bordered north of India, south of Tibet, southwest of China, east of Nepal and at one of Himalayas peaks, adopts gross national happiness, which is the pursuit of money must be balanced with spiritual well being. Wealth is only generated by environmentally benign activity. Top-dollar tourism and streaming hydroelectric power to India are the biggest earners. And whilst the streets are not paved with gold, they literally sprout a carpet of wild marijuana. But they don’t smoke it here – they feed it to the pigs. “It fattens them up nicely.” In the race for happiness it seems Bhutan is the one country where pigs really do fly. Was the landlocked country of Laos at one time like the contemporary Kingdom of Bhutan sixty years ago? Watch this video... youtube/watch?v=CXJwNSkdTH0
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:54:22 +0000
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