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Dalai Lama Has a Stark Warning for Humanity

Now 87, the spiritual leader speaks with Emma Barnett about the critical threat of global warming.

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Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, issued a stark warning to humanity about the grave threat posed by global warming while pleading for compassion amid ongoing conflicts, especially Russia’s war on Ukraine.

In an interview with Emma Barnett on Emma Barnett meets… from Dharamshala, India, where he’s lived since fleeing Tibet in the 1950s, the 87-year-old Nobel laureate emphasized the importance of addressing the climate crisis while discussing war and what he sees as China’s evolving relationship with religion.