Four years ago, Bhikkhu Bodhi was a signature on the\u00a0\u201cCall to Action for U.S. and World Leaders to Proactively Address the Adverse Psychological and Social Impacts of Climate Disruption\u201d (see link below), and he has continued his steadfast work to raise awareness about this pressing concern. As he says in the address:<\/p>\n
The discourses of the Buddha speak of the causal origins of suffering primarily in the framework of the individual quest for liberation. They show how the mental afflictions damage our personal lives and how was individuals. We can free ourselves from them today. However, as the world has been integrated into a single interdependent global order, we have to examine how this process of causation operates at a collective level and then based on this investigation we must determine the kind of changes we must make in our societies, political institutions, and global policies to avoid the adversities we face as an international community. We can call this a global application of\u00a0sati sampaja\u00f1\u00f1a,<\/span><\/em>\u00a0of mindfulness and clear comprehension of all the dangers we face together today, the most formidable, the most all-embracing, and the most threatening is the one usually called climate change, but which perhaps might be more accurately called climate destabilization or climate disorientation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n