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How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

This is a clip from The Economics of Happiness. Watch it here (skip to the 10-minute mark to pick up where this clip ends)

It's a brilliant film that was easy to put at the top of our list of the top 100 documentaries we can use to change the world: 30 minutes that gets to the root problems and 30 minutes that gets to the root solutions.

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