December 14, 2009: The craziness among Bhutanese rulers sounds going beyond normal state in relating things with Gross National Happiness, claimed to be coined by fourth king Jigme Singye.
Encouraged by the WB official’s offer to adopt GNH as development index, the Bhutanese rulers began talking about using the philosophy in all issues they come acro
ss.
Till December 4, incorporating GNH into human rights had given rise to heated debates. And now, the Bhutanese delegates in Europe are telling the world leaders that GNH helps mitigate climate change threats.
On the sidelines of the UN world conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Bhutanese delegation talked about the concept of GNH and its relation with climate change adaptation. There were 100 eager listeners, including 17 Bhutanese, for them out of 15,000 delegates attending the summit.
Briefing that GNH is the guiding principle for Bhutanese socio-economic development, Deputy Minister of the National Environment Commission Nado Rinchhen said, “GNH is a solution to climate change as it cautions against excessive materialism.”
Responding to question by Kiven of University of Zurich on how will the concept of happiness help mitigate climate issues, Rinchen reportedly said, “One of four pillars of GNH is the conservation of environment and, therefore, the pillar will safeguard forest, which has potential to absorb carbon emission.”
It’s plain and simple. If the world in the state of knowledge based progress and wealth do not posses this ingredient, we are honored to present it to the world… It is easy to convince anyone with elementary principles learnt at primary levels of human civilization, we are only showing the deserted beginning at the end…
i think you should give more thought to this GNH thing than just commenting. GNH may be solution to many problems that we face today,including the refugee problem
so why dont you read more, get educated on it and then comment. why not relate GNH and regugee issues..try it and im sure something might come out of it
cherio
This […] GNH thing of Jegme dynasty is FAILURE to the whole world and the world leaders laughed and mocked at it and many did not even bother about the presentation paper and majority just ignored saying that [….] go on barking with no sense and logic!
The western world knows the plight that Wangchuk dynasty has puppet democracy and eye wash to the world and now 99% of Western nations just ignore and put Bhtuan into blacklist of eye wash, human rights violation and more so ethnic cleasning of nepali speaking and sarchop speaking.
This GNH is just the weired and very absured idea, which nobdoy in the WEST buys and now they just make it laugh and in Copenhagen when the world was on stress to deal Bhutanese jokers were making jokes of [….] GNH which Jigme Wanchuk and Geshar Wangchuk FOOLING The world, withouth knowing that the world is much smarter than [….] Bhutanese regime and Royals,.
STOP […..] AROUND and GROW UP KINGS and DICTATORS OF BHUTAN NOW, the world knows already that you are fooling when 99.99% of your population are without food, water, road and electricity!
O fake Karma Rangdol, you have gone out of track in saying the following
“STOP […..] AROUND and GROW UP KINGS and DICTATORS OF BHUTAN NOW, the world knows already that you are fooling when 99.99% of your population are without food, water, road and electricity!” for we have road, water supply and electricity reaching fast to every corner of the country. We can not accept insult on our leaders when they are accused for the wrongs that are not theirs. Our GNH is not for sale, it is for domestic consumption, please. We shall very soon begin to consume it while the world looks at it in rejection…
Rather pray now that our leaders are not surrounded by communal psychophants that cast dark shadow around our light and hope …