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From the Heart

We Need Warmheartedness with The 14th Dalai Lama

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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Tibet offers an acute lesson in interconnectedness that is hard to miss when you’re there. Tibet showed me precisely how an area can suffer when climate change is on fast forward. I also realized how vulnerable its people are. Sometimes we would pass through a village where everyone was outside trying to plant trees in what looked like desert to us. Traveling to Tibet was like visiting a canary in a coal mine, tracking a sensitive indicator that’s issuing an early warning of great danger.

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James Hoggan

James Hoggan is president of the PR firm Hoggan & Associates and chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board. A tireless advocate for ethics and integrity in public relations, he founded the influential website DeSmogBlog to expose misinformation campaigns that pollute public debate around climate change and the environment. He has advised a wide range of organizations, governments, universities and corporations, and is a sought-after speaker around North America and Europe. Hoggan has chaired and served on numerous national and international boards and advisory committees including the Four Great Rivers Society and Shell Global’s External Review Committee. He is the author of Climate Cover-Up and Do the Right Thing: PR Tips for a Skeptical Public.