Tibet Third Pole - Tibet 3e pôle

Tibet Third Pole Action

Scientists call Tibet the Earths Third Pole because it is home to some 40,000 glaciers, storing more freshwater than any other region except the North and South poles. These same scientists also know that Tibet is warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the world. Tibets glaciers will be gone within decades. Expert glaciologists estimate that, at present rates, almost two thirds of the glaciers on the plateau could be gone by 2060 (Chinese glaciologist Yao Tandong, quoted in China Daily, 2004). These glaciers feed the rivers that are the lifeblood of Asia, providing water for more than one billion people in ten nations downstream of Tibet.




Chinas response to climate change on the Roof of the World is to:

• dam and divert Tibets rivers.

• displace Tibets nomadic people the traditional stewards from Tibets grasslands.

• crush any voice that dares speak out against Chinas policies.




Since invading and occupying Tibet in 1949, China has degraded Tibets ecosystems, displaced and impoverished hundreds of thousands of Tibetans, and threatened Asias regional security. Chinas policies have aggravated the environmental degradation that is affecting the quantity and quality of Tibets grasslands and water resources. With drought and water scarcity on the rise across Asia, Chinas dams will disrupt already fragile water supplies in the region. In turn, Chinas policy of forcing tens of thousands of nomads into permanent exile in their own homeland and severely restricting the movement of most remaining nomads is creating a new human rights crisis in this already oppressed and occupied country.




China needs Tibets nomads, who learned centuries ago that only through good stewardship is life on the Tibetan Plateau humanly possible and ecologically sustainable. Tibets nomads are essential to sustaining the long- term health of the ecosystems and water resources that China so desperately depends upon and for which its army invaded Tibet sixty years ago.




The worlds nations and peoples now recognise that local communities must be at the centre of any just and enduring solution to determining the best way to adapt to climate change. For Tibetans, this means full participation in all aspects of decision-making and governance of Tibets ecosystems, natural resources, and conservation zones.


It is the stated policy of China's government to permanently "settle" nomadic families. This online action is directed at the Party Secretaries of the five Chinese provinces into which Tibet has been subsumed; the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan.

Urgent Action

CALL ON China's leadership in Tibet to overturn their policy of displacing Tibet's Nomads:

This online action is directed at the Party Secretaries of the five Chinese provinces into which Tibet has been subsumed; the Tibet Autonomous Region,Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan.

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5380/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1306

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