雅思阅读材料：达赖喇嘛关注气候_雅思英语阅读

雅思阅读材料：达赖喇嘛关注气候

　　达赖喇嘛对美国的外交人员说国际团体应该把注意力放在气候的变化上而不是聚焦在西藏的政治。他之所以这样说是因为现在环境问题比西藏政治问题要紧急的多。这究竟是怎么回事，达赖转变策略了吗?

　　The Dalai Lama told US diplomats last year that the international community should focus on climate change rather than politics in Tibet because environmental problems were more urgent, secret American cables reveal.

　　The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader told Timothy Roemer, the US ambassador to India, that the political agenda should be sidelined for five to 10 years and the international community should shift its focus to climate change on the Tibetan plateau during a meeting in Delhi last August.

　　Melting glaciers, deforestation and increasingly polluted water from mining projects were problems that cannot wait, but the Tibetans could wait five to 10 years for a political solution, he was reported as saying.

　　Though the Dalai Lama has frequently raised environmental issues, he has never publicly suggested that political questions take second place, nor spoken of any timescale with such precision.

　　Roemer speculated, in his cable to Washington reporting the meeting, that the Dalai Lamas message may signal a broader shift in strategy to reframe the Tibet issue as an environmental concern.