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We have witnessed a great gathering in Copenhagen of world leaders and global climate experts. Their task was to somehow reach a broad agreement on how to save Mother Earth from the devastation of global warming that mankind has set in motion. Well, I hope that nobody was holding their breath waiting for common sense to prevail! Now it is up to individuals both Buddhist and non-Buddhist around the globe to do something positive:

Many people feel helpless in the face of Global Warming, the greatest threat of this age to the survival of mankind. But here is a step that you can take: Listen to the Medicine Buddha Mantra and reflect on what this planet means to you. And then please email your loved ones and friends to do the same. if you enclose the following link: www.bodhimanda.org/node/48 they will be able to get the same message and hear the same mantra.

The following video features a 12 year old girl addressing a United Nations conference. Courageously and eloquently, she lays it on the line to supposedly intelligent adults that their wayward and selfish actions look like depriving her and future generations of a world worth living in: