Saving the climate is our common duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into the sea, accelerating the extinction of species at alarming proportions and aggravating a water shortage that has affected the entire world. In short, climate change can no longer be denied--it threatens our existence on earth.

In this new book, the Dalai Lama, one of the most influential figures of our time, calls on political decision makers to finally fight against deadlock and ignorance on this issue and to stand up for a different, more climate-friendly world and for the younger generation to assert their right to regain their future.

From the voice of the beloved world religious leader comes an eye-opening manifesto that empowers the generation of today to step up, take action and save our environment.
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World, The Dalai Lama, Hanover Square Press, Hardcover, 176 pp, $19.99

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and, above all, world peace.

I. Introduction by Franz Alt	13
1. Life is holy	15
2. Climate emergency	18
3. The world's most likeable person	19
4. Mankind's survival is at stake	21
II. The Third World War against Nature	23
1. Mankind is losing control	25
2. Four hundred million climate refugees	31
3. Millions take to the streets with Greta	32
4. What could rescue look like?	34
5. Dare for a future	36
III. Save the Environment--The Dalai lama's Climate Appeal to the World	39
1. Buddha would be Green--me too, I am Green	41
2. Environmental education	42
3. Universal responsibility	43
4. The revolution of compassion	44
IV. Franz Alt's Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama	47
1. The purpose of life is to be happy	49
2. We are all children of one world	52
3. Without humans the earth would be doing better	55
4. Himalaya's glaciers are vanishing	59
5. A nuclear war would be the last in the history of mankind	65
6. More education of the heart	69
V. The Solar Age Begins--The Sun Wins	73
1. Solar energy is social energy	75
2. We should lock up the politicians	78
3. Rebirth calls for environmental protection	80
4. Buddha: "We are what we think"	82
5. Greta: "Our house is on fire"	85
VI. The Mountains Here Are as Bald as a Monk's Head	91
1. Plant trees	93
2. Ethics is more important than religion	102
3. Vegetarianism helps the climate	104
4. Buddhists disapprove of killing as a sport	106
VII. The Sheltering Tree of Interdependence--A Buddhist Monk's Reflections on Ecological Responsibility	113
VIII. For a Solar Age--Epilogue by Franz Alt	127
1. Reconciling economy and ecology	129
2. There is no matter	132
3. In depth all life is one	135
4. No child should starve to death	136
5. Disarming instead of rearming	140
6, Economizing with nature, not against it	143
7. Deeds are evidence of the truth	151
IX. Ten Commandments for the Climate	155
X. What can I do?	163
1. Choose wisely	165
2. Is there still hope for us?	169
Acknowledgments	175