Dalai Lama Links Global Warming Disasters
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
DALAI LAMA LINKS GLOBAL WARMING DISASTERS IN LADAKH, PAKISTAN & RUSSIA
Eyewitness Report by Josh Schrei
I'm writing this from Leh, where a single night of mudslides and floods has caused untold devastation all across the land of Ladakh. While the media have reported fairly extensively on the situation, it is impossible to grasp the scale of the destruction, for this is a vast land, and literally no town or village in the Ladakh range has been unaffected. The death toll, when all is said and done, will be over 1,000. The toll on Ladakh's future -- given the sheer scope of the destruction -- is unimaginable
Ravinder Singh Robin (ANI) writes:
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said mid-August that the world needs to pay serious attention to the impact of Global Warming and look at it as the biggest of environmental issues.
Speaking at Amritsar, the Dalai Lama expressed his deep condolences to the people who died due to an unprecedented cloudburst in Leh the capital of Ladakh: "All what happened in Leh is very very sad. This is one of several such natural disasters. What we can do is pray for the victims and also offer condolences to the surviving family members and give donations for their rehabilitation."
The Dalai Lama also stated that the natural disasters of vast flooding in Pakistan and wild fires in Russia call for attention. He concurred with ecologists that these are the symptoms of global warming, a very sad development.
The Tibetal Spiritual Leader said that preservation of ecology should be part of our daily life, and that ahimsa, the tradition and culture of Bharat, is most relevant at the present time.