"Dalai Lama Calls Action on Climate a 'Human Responsibility'"

"NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau.

Calling climate change a 'problem which human beings created,' the 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said all of humanity was now responsible for taking action. But instead, he said, 'we are relying on praying to God or to Buddha. Sometimes I feel this is very illogical.'

He issued his plea in a pre-taped video released as part of a campaign launched by the Tibetan government-in-exile in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala, where the Dalai Lama has been based since fleeing a Chinese military crackdown in Tibet."

Katy Daigle reports for the Associated Press October 20, 2015.