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An ethical approach to dealing with the urgent issues of climate change and taking care of our delicate ecosystems.


Winner of the Silver Independent Publisher Book Award in 2022 for Nature books.


This Fragile Planet features 80 inspiring quotations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on environment, matched with 120…

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Who better to explain the Tibetan ecosystems that are vital to all of Asia? And to offer solutions.

A millennium before national parks and nature reserves appeared in the West, Tibetans had a system in place: they did not call regions national parks, but they decreed these areas were to be left alone, which is pretty much the same thing. The Dalai Lama elaborates on the Tibetan Buddhist concept of interdependence, whereby all creatures, plants, and phenomena depend on each other.

He proposed that Tibet be turned into a large biosphere, a Zone of Peace between China and India, set…

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