Question 1~

I never realised how mountainous Bhutan is until I watched the documentary. It was really interesting to see the host of the show track the mountains and camping because I plan on doing so in the future and it's very eye opening to see how much fun he was having but also things I must mentally prepare for, like the altitude sickness and blizzards.

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Bhutan's temples and monesterties are also very impressive in terms of design and structure, in my opinion. The Bhutanese culture is also quite peculiar in a way because of how they circle their religious temples in a clockwise manner, I've tried finding out why it is so but my research was to no avail.

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I learned that the Bhutanese people are very mindful and peaceful through their actions as they are very practicing environmentalists. They don't kill their animals, their meats are imported from India, and I don't see very many cars in the documentaries. In fact most of their transportations are similar to tuk-tuks and most people use public transportations like buses as it reduces carbon emissions.

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The Bhutanese men celebrate their manhood by playing their national sport: Archery. This fact was new to me and it's the first time I've seen a nation practice their manhood in a positive manner. Many other countries are very hung up in celebrating manhood with negative connotations like drinking and aggressive contact sports like wrestling however Bhutanese culture is different in a sense that they do not like to cause harm to themselves or another.

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The Tiger's Nest is, in lack of better words, magnificent. It hangs dangerously on a cliff at an elevation of 3120 metres. What made my jaw drop was the fact that it was built in the year of 1692 was just mind boggling as people back then did not have the technology we have now to build such an impressive structure at a difficult location.

 

Question 2~

Malaysia should follow after Bhutan's motto of "Development with values" which means mindful usage and creation using our country's resource. 

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Here are some of my ideas on helping Malaysia in becoming carbon neutral:

1. Enact laws that makes it mandatory to keep at least 50% of our forests and jungles in tact- We should reduce the amount of Oil Palm and rubber farms which we are the two most dominant cash crops.

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2. Push advertising of electrical cars. Diesel and petrol cars produces more than 49% of NO2 released into the atmosphere are caused by motor vehicles. The total No2 emissions released by motor vehicles in the country in 2008 are estimated around the figure of 203,235 metric tonnes (https://ijern.com/journal/July-2013/31.pdf). 

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3. Up the amount of zero-carbon electricity production sources through wind farms, hydroelectric dams and solar panel farms. Fundings for these projects can take inspiration from the 'Bhutan For Life' funding method.