Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World
by Dalai Lama
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An appeal for environmental action by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and spiritual leader of Tibet urges decision-makers to fight climate change ignorance while encouraging younger readers to assert their right to a climate-friendly future.Tags
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This book makes clear, at least to those of us with any common sense of concern for our planet, that we are in a true climate emergency. The facts and figures are staggering, as is the thought of millions of climate refugees. There is an overview and then a question and interview of the Dalai Lama. He highly praises Greta Thunberg, her concern, outspokenness and her climate initiatives. She has managed, what many world leaders have not, to start a movement among the young. This planet is their future and we have left it in a detrimental mess.
The nature of this book leads to much repetition but the content is important, crucial.
ARC Edelweiss.
The nature of this book leads to much repetition but the content is important, crucial.
ARC Edelweiss.
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The exiled 14th Dalai Lama was born on July 6, 1935 to a peasant family living in a former Tibetan village. He was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous spiritual leader of his nation at the age of two and enthroned on February 22, 1940. In 1959 he and 100,000 followers fled the country following a failed revolt against the Communist show more Chinese forces that had occupied Tibet for almost a decade. Since that time, the Dalai Lama has met with numerous world leaders and U. N. officials in a tireless effort to free his country and preserve the traditional Tibetan way of life. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and has been awarded honorary citizenships by many international cities and countries, as well as multiple honorary degrees and human rights awards. In 2007 the Dalai Lama received the United States Congressional Gold Medal. He has written many books and lectures around the world. His book, My Spiritual Journey, made the iBooks bestseller list in 2016. He is the author of the best seller, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, with the Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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