The leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, He told the US Congress that it is time for the country to stop ignoring climate change and fight it.
Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, He said the Dalai Lama reminded him how dangerous it is to allow climate change to advance..
10.03.2014
Reid recalled that the Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, who recently visited Washington, made him reconsider the problem of global warming, hearing how in Tibet “the snow from the mountains melts”.
“In recent years, Human-caused climate change has caused warmer winters with less snow in Tibet, and less water for 1,300 millions of people who live at the foot of these mountains”, Reid recalled..
The Democrat assured that the United States is no stranger to the problem, since for more than a decade there has been an increase in droughts that have even threatened the Colorado River, and Nevada.
“Warmer winters have meant less snow, less spring rains, and droughts in the rivers. Combined with extreme heat, Disappearing snowpacks put water supplies at risk for more than 30 millions of people”, Reid explained to the congressmen.
The US senator recalled that the government of President George W.. Bush recognized that climate change is a reality with “strong scientific evidence”, but it never combated the “greenhouse effect”.
According to Reid, in Alaska the temperature rose 60 degrees in January, and in the west of the country the most powerful fires of the last decade have been fought, while in February, Atlanta, Georgia was covered in snow and ice.
“But as the Dalai Lama said: 'we have the capacity and responsibility to act. But we must act before it's too late… This is not a question of morality or ethics, "It's a matter of survival.", Reid emphasized..
