By Andrew Freedman for Mashable.

The Dalai Lama is urging young people and policy makers to push for strong global action to limit manmade global warming, in part to protect the Himalayan Glaciers and rapidly warming Tibetan Plateau.

In a video message released as part of a campaign by the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India, the 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said human beings created the problem of global climate change, and therefore humanity must solve it.

“These are humanity’s responsibility,” he said.