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One FaveDalai Lama: A Humble Man with A Message for Us
On climate change and the Copenhagen summit:
"I think that sometimes national economic issues are the most important so that the global issue sometimes becomes secondary and global responsibilities are lacking," he said. "But I think governments now take more seriously global warming."
He talked of research on his Tibetan homeland that describes it as the world's third polar region because of its potential effect on global warming.
The Dalai Lama said that the rivers that start in its high mountain plateaus provide water for a huge part of the world's population.
There have been predictions that if present conditions continued within 30-40 years, some of the rivers that start in Tibet will run dry.
"So now those major rivers that cover all of Asia from China to Pakistan, which are the basis of human beings' life - it is not just a concern for the local people but for all the people, it is something that needs protection from that (global warming)."