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The Greatest Threat

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Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest threat to the world is the rising middle classes of Asia who long for the same, inherently unsustainable levels of comfort as privileged Westerners. What will happen when we realize the planet simply cannot support that level of excess?

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