Bhutan Prime Minister on Gross National Happiness

[siuyuin]

“My country could have and still can grow a lot faster if we don’t
constantly turn down projects in natural resource extraction….we have
taken great care to enshrine in law that this generation should not
take care of its needs by compromising the abilities of future
generations. For example, Bhutan was found to have high quality marble
up in the hills. And we spent a lot of money importing technology from
Italy to extract this. Years down the road, we realised that we had
dug ourselves a big unsightly hole, and this was quite near our
airport. Despite the initial investment, we decided to stop it
altogether…Eye sore pollution.”

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