Make global warming top priority: Dalai Lama to world leaders
November 30th, 2009 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS ( 2 comments )Dharamsala, Nov 30 (IANS) Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Monday asked world leaders to make finding a solution to climate change their number one priority.
“Protection of the global environment must take precedence over matters of national interest and politicians must make finding a solution to climate change their number one priority,” the Nobel Peace laureate told reporters in Sydney, according to a post on the website of the Tibetan government-in-exile here.
The Dalai Lama Monday reached Australia for a series of lectures on universal responsibility and the environment.
“Sometimes their (the politicians) number one importance is national interest, national economic interest, then global issue is sometimes second. That I think should change. The global issue, it should be number one.”
Referring to Tibet as the earth’s “third pole”, the Dalai Lama explained why the environment in Tibet was crucial to the wellbeing of people in Asia.
“The Indus, Ganges, Mekong, Yellow, Yangtze and other of Asia’s great rivers all begin in Tibet. That is why the environment in Tibet is crucial to the wellbeing of more than a billion people in Asia,” he noted.
The Tibetan spiritual leader said he was encouraged by the fact that world leaders have started taking the issue of climate change more seriously but added that he couldn’t predict the outcome of the Dec 6-18 Copenhagen summit.
Expressing his hope of returning to Tibet one day, the Dalai Lama, while recognising the problems this would pose to the Chinese government, reiterated that he was ready to do so as soon as he was given a green signal.
He said he was happy to be returning to Australia after a visit in June last year.
The Dalai Lama would start his New Zealand visit after the Australia trip.
In recent months, the Dalai Lama, 74, has travelled across the world to garner support for ‘meaningful autonomy’ for Tibet and to deliver lectures. He has denied China’s claims that he wants independence for Tibet, saying he is only seeking greater autonomy.
However, the Chinese view him as a hostile person bent on splitting Tibet from China. Beijing frowns upon meetings between the Dalai Lama and foreign leaders.
The Dalai Lama along with many of his supporters fled Tibet and took refuge in India when Chinese troops moved in and took control of Lhasa in 1959. He has ever since been heading the Tibetan government-in-exile from here.
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December 1st, 2009 at 9:18 am
While AGW was not a conspiracy, thats no reason to think the science has to be looked at any closer to understand how this CO2 theory rose to such hysteria and then 23 years later down to its watery grave its now treading water over as we speak. It was a media and cultural fad straight from hell that history will think of as the time we thought we could kill the planet, 40 years after the smoggy 70’s. At best, Globull Warming was a mistake turned criminal while everybody and his brother and group attached a personal ideology to it.
I’m just glad this 23 year old theory had finally headed for a cliff and of course now doomed to soon be the Berlin Wall of irresponsible environ MENTAL ism. But, Global warming will never go away completely. I’m sure to this day one can still find Disco and hippies somewhere. Climate Doomers are headed for history sooner than you think. CO2 supporters this time next year will be hardcore Greenpeace types that have nothing to do with those of us who call the shots, the voters.
What killed this theory was the inevitable failure to pay up the “ALL-IN” played by the IPCC with: “SAVE THE PLANET”. Save, as in from death. How greedy did they get to have expected the public to wait for “100” years for the climate crisis effects.
And how is precaution science? How is correlation science? How is a paid Disco consultant posing for the cameras in a white lab coat all of a sudden a scientist? The IPCC said the theory was settled, clear, accessible and understandable, so what are they trying to hide? The truth and thank God for those hackers.
Anyone should smell a slimy rat when a politician promises to make the weather better for you with YOUR taxes. See CO2 Phobia for what it was, a temporary cultural phenomenon for the history books.
December 13th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Is it possible for His Holiness and others to travel to Copenhagen and perhaps work to break the deadlock. No other land; no other people and religion represent tolerance and the ability to understand as well. So many people would have had their own nation to lead and enter