His Holiness the Dalai Lama to discuss climate change with Greta Thunberg in January 2021
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is going to discuss climate change with the 17-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg along with other scientists.
| 21 Dec 2020 3:15 PM GMT
Dharamshala: Nobel Peace Laureate and spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will sit down for a face-to-face talk with climate change activist Greta Thunberg and many other leading scientists on January 10, 2021.
The Dalai Lama will join in for a conversation on the crisis of climate feedback loops. The special live stream event is going to be free and is being organised by the Mind & Life Institute.
future of the rest of the globe, and it s not looking good. along with the melting, large swaths of the arctic are literally on fire. wildfires are raging in russia over an area the size of belgium, and we re seeing disturbing examples of what climate scientists call feedback loops. those fires in the arctic are burning peat which is releasing enormous amounts of carbon which in turn leads to more warming creating conditions for more fires which will lead to more release of carbon. and on the glacier dark pools of water that absorb more heat than the reflective snow or ice would, speeding up even more melting. climate change is the most pressing issue we face, but here s the sad fact, the outrageous fact. there is only one party in america willing to address it and have a conversation about what to do to save civilization as we know it. the other party does not care and is in fact making it worse. and until that changes, supporting the other party puts all of humanity at very real risk
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hot house earth trend would be propelled by strong bio geophysical feedback difficult to influence but human actions what does that mean that these trends will continue despite attempts to me we can still address this there is still a chance to avoid these kinds of feedback loops and tipping points the report talks about what the report says is. there are certain things that can happen and once they happen they reinforce themselves once we trigger this these tipping points these feedbacks global warming will just continue even if we don t emit anymore if the third permafrost thaws in siberia permanently frozen soil methane is released and that triggers mobile warming there s more thawing of the soil and he keeps going and that s what we have to avoid the report says the tipping point for that is probably somewhere between one and two degrees of global warming so if we can limit to well below two degrees to one point five degrees as we said in paris in the paris agreement we can still a