A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change
Today we live in a time of great crisis, confronted by the gravest challenge that humanity has ever faced: the ecological consequences of our own collective karma. The scientific consensus is overwhelming: human activity is triggering environmental breakdown on a planetary scale. Global warming, in particular, is happening much faster than previously predicted, most obviously at the North Pole.
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, along with David Loy and John Stanley, a British micro-biologist, has helped to compose a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change.
In the run-up to the crucial U.N. Climate Treaty Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, the Declaration will present to the world’s media a unique spiritual view of climate change and our urgent responsibility to address the solutions. It emerged from the contributions of over twenty Buddhist teachers of all traditions to the book, A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency, Wisdom Publications, 2009.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was the first to sign this Declaration. All concerned members of the international Buddhist community are invited to study the document and add their voice by co-signing it. If you agree with the statement, please sign it.
Please also pass it on to your own Buddhist friends and colleagues. Those involved with organizations should feel at liberty to post the declaration, or a link to it, on their websites.