Living in balance with nature: Teachings from Bhutan, the kingdom of happiness | Day Zero (3/3)
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2023
- This episode stands for reflection. What can each individual do to perserve nature and our planet? Does our consumerist behaviour have a future? How can we learn to look differently at what we buy and at what we really need?
These questions lead Nils to Bhutan, a small country with the Himalaya in the north and India to its south. Whereas Europe has already faced the limits of growth in the 70's, Bhutan has nearly been left untouched by any industrial revolution. People have been living as farmers and in balance with nature. Bhutan has been brave in turning their agriculture to purly organic by 2020. They have exchanged the GDP for GNH - Gross National Happiness. Nils meets Dr. Julia Kim, Head of the GNH Centre, in Thimphu. What can we learn from the Bhutanese philosphy and how can we transport their ideas into our daily lives?
Back in Europe, Nils hikes to Pasterze Glacier in Austria. Also in the Alps, the retreat of these icy giants is enormous. The art installation For Forest in the football stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria, asks what is around the corner if we don't change our behaviour. What if this is what our future would look like?
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Day Zero can be a starting point or an end. Surely it’s a turning point in history. Are we saving this planet for the future or are we destroying our environment to gain more economic growth? Through the eyes of people living close to nature, we are invited to experience pristine nature at risk and the question of how to balance our relationship with our environment. Are we part of a problem or part of a solution?
Day Zero is portraying climate change in a different way - by immersing the viewer in nature’s bounty and by listening to stories told by local people. Filmmaker Nils Bökamp has identified unique spots around the world where nature’s pristine wilderness and beauty are threatened to be lost by the effects of climate change.
Directed by Nils Bökamp
Original title: Day Zero, Episode 3: Austria and Bhutan - A Glimpse into the Future
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Happiness isn’t all about having the wealth of world,but it is all about your inner mind;Contentment in what you have. Bhutan have all factor that contribute for happiness. Society free of crime, free education, free healthcare, fresh air, peaceful mind and leaving with nature.
Love the documentary and report about Bhutan and himself; just funny that he walked from Punakha to Thimphu via Phobjika Valley :-)
Geoengineering has more impact on climate than all other factors combined, yet it is never mentioned in climate discussions.
Happiness is an emoting, a feeling and feelings and emotings never last long and are always changing from moment to moment.
happiness doesn't depend on our CO2 footprint, rather live without ideologies and dogmas and be happy
When you return to the Glaciers in 15 years, they will have grown as we have entered a cooling period. How was your winter this year?
Humanity is a part of nature, even when we are in the big cities driving in our cars, we are a part of nature.
We can have all the modern conveniences and produce tons more plant food CO2 and live in harmony with nature. We do not have to give up modern conveniences and demonize plant food emissions, CO2 to live in harmony with nature.
Time and money are both measures of something and not things in and of themselves. People in general, whether in a poor country like Bhutan or a rich country like the US do not understand time nor money.
Who said happiness is dependant upon economic growth and money?
It is absurd to believe that one can change the world when the only one that one can change is ones self.
You realize that Bhutan as of the 2022 census has a population of 727,145 so of course their carbon emotions will be less than other countries with higher populations.
I have no desire to go walking through untamed nature, its a good way to get hurt. No Thank you. I prefer to watch and view it from images of those brave enough or stupid enough to expose themselves to such conditions.
Its ironically ignorant how you end this insipid episode with a ball park turned into a cage for nature as if Nature could ever be caged.
Harmony is found in nature, not balance. A good way to learn this truth is to go to the playground and play on the teeter totter. Just try and balance the Teeter Totter with a child on each end. Good luck with that.
Of course the Glacier is going to be larger at the end of the Little Ice Age in 1858. How absurd to even compare a Glacier at the end of an Ice Age and a glacier in the middle of a warming age. ABSURD