DESPAIR: Famous Buddhist and environmentalist discuss antidote (video)

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Despair is the depth of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.”
— John Donne, English poet (1572-1631)

Who knew what would happen when one of the world’s most renowned Buddhists talked with one of the globe’s best-known environmentalists?

The rare meeting took place this week at the University of B.C. when Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, 84, sat down for a chat with Canadian geneticist, broadcaster and ecologist David Suzuki, 75.

The conversation between the two elderly scholar-activists quickly turned to life’s big, hard topics — greed, misuse of power, waste, suffering and the highly uncertain future of the planet.

And one thread seemed to tie it all together: Despair.

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