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choosing one person today and one person tomorrow to join us next year for a yes theory episode so go and see discomfort.com right now and join the seeker family and now time to board the fight imagine a country tucked away from the rest of the world hidden in the himalayas left to its own devices to develop in unique and incredible ways that made sense for not only its own culture but also for its entire ecosystem some people claim that this country is the happiest in the world the last shangri-la and is in fact the only country in the world to be carbon negative meaning it's producing three times more oxygen than it consumes meet the country of bhutantomorrow on cyber monday we will be
choosing one person today and one person tomorrow to join us next year for a yes theory episode so go and see discomfort.com right now and join the seeker family and now time to board the fight imagine a country tucked away from the rest of the world hidden in the himalayas left to its own devices to develop in unique and incredible ways that made sense for not only its own culture but also for its entire ecosystem some people claim that this country is the happiest in the world the last shangri-la and is in fact the only country in the world to be carbon negative meaning it's producing three times more oxygen than it consumes meet the country of bhutanwelcome to bhutan oh all right
this has got to be the most beautiful airport i've ever seen in my life what and even the freaking conveyor belt for our luggage is beautiful so the thing about bhutan is that you're not allowed to come here without an official tour guide assigned to you and they hook you up with hotels visas transportation which means that i have a guide waiting for me out here hi how are you how are you fine yes great to meet you man this is beautiful i like it what was your name so welcome this car for you thank you so much great wow awesome once again welcome to bhutan thank you so much i'm super excited to explore and and learn about how bhutan is apparently the happiest country in the world right
he's freaking huge the main goal for today is to turn lp into the first bhutanese vlogger here you go it's your turn but first what are we doing right now we're going in the buddha statue it's one of the largest sitting buddha in the world so 210 feet
wow after exploring a few more iconic places in bhutan i felt amazed by the scenery yet i still had so many unanswered questions why do some call this place the happiest country how does their society differ from any other place in the world and just as these questions came to mind my friend kevin we had met in thailand last year heard that i was in bhutan and had a connection to the perfect man to answer all of this the ex-prime minister of bhutan and so funnily enough before beginning the hour-long drive over to his house to interview him i was walking over to go get him a gift and i noticed something strange i just went on a quick little walk and as i'm walking around i'm slowly starting to notice that this country has a weird
obsession with penises there's penises on a lot of different buildings i've been like kind of seeing it and i was like oh that guy's got a penis on his house and they kind of like not really think about it and now as i've been walking around i'm noticing this is not a coincidence or a one-off situation people in bhutan really like penises okay so i have to ask you because i want to make sure i get that story on camera what's the deal with all the penises on all the houses yeah to protect to protect from the evil and the coast does anybody find it funny or is it always just seen that it's part of the culture yeah it's part of culture for us it's usually the original touristy tech means they feel shy yeah so that's why i don't talk much about that yeah oh my god well you learn something every day so we are about to go meet the ex-prime minister of bhutan and we need to bring him a gift i can't believefreaking penises it feels like such ajuxtaposition next to all of these religious buddha statues and then there's just a whole bunch of cooks what do you think that one i don't know if i'm confident enough to bring a penis as a gift you know what i'm saying which one would you recommend uh that one yeah this one and those are the four doorways to heaven that's pretty nice yeah yeah we'll do that thank you so much all right now we gotta run and so after getting the gift so we drove an hour to finally sit down with the ex-prime minister thank you so much for agreeing to do this on such a last-second notice i just want to start by asking you for somebody who doesn't know the basics of the girl's happiness incomegross wrestling girl's nationalhappiness yeah i know i really don't know but gross national happiness is basically a development philosophy that acknowledges that economic growth is important but that economic growth must not be mindless it should also be sustainable environmentally sustainable and it also should be equally spread throughout society until recently bhutan was the only country in the world that's carbon neutral okay and now suriname is also carbon neutral so the two countries but i mean we have 195 countries in the world today and to have two countries and that to two small countries just two countries that are carbon neutral is not acceptable in bhutan we sequester about three times more carbon dioxide than we emit as a nation traditional economist would have advised his majesty the king to harvest the forest yet he didn't and all i can say is that he was way ahead ofso some people say bhutan is one of the happiest countries in the world do you feel like that's just like something outsiders say about bhutan or do you agree with that statement or yes and no yes or no yeah it's something that outsiders say because they've heard about the development philosophy of cross national happiness and there's a misunderstanding people have just concluded that this must be the happiest country in the world and yes you may have noticed that we smile a lot and when we smile we smile from the depths of our soul you know who's to say that we are the happiest people there are many societies and some societies may be happier yet we should ought to be happy also because the conditions of happiness are available in bhutan free health care free education clean air natural environment is the rule of law justice these are all in place. Thank you so much.