Guest Speaker: Mr. Gabriel Lafitte. Date: 21st March 2023 Event: The Tibet Museum's Bimonthly talk series.

1. AN OCEAN OF
GLACIERS: TIBET FROM
TOP TO BOTTOM
A TIBET MUSEUM PRESENTATION BY
CANCER SURVIVOR GABRIEL LAFITTE,
CONSULTANT TO TIBET POLICY
21 MARCH 2023

2. FROM THE
PLANETAR
Y THIRD
POLE TO
THE
DISTANT
OCEANS
• Which ocean is the mouth of the fast
melting glaciers of the roof of the world,
Asia’s water tower?
• The Indus discharges into the Indian
Ocean/Arabian Sea
• The Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra
discharges into the Bay of Bengal/Indian
Ocean
• The Gyalmo Ngulchu/Salween discharges to
Andaman Sea/Indian Ocean
• Za Chu/Mekong meets the South China Sea
• Dri Chu/Yangtze mouth is in the West
Pacific Ocean
• Ma Chu/Yellow River discharges into Gulf of

3. FROM THE ARABIAN SEA TO THE NORTH PACIFIC,
THE MAJOR RIVERS ALL BEGIN IN THE GLACIERS
OF TIBET

4. IS TIBET CHINA’S WATER TOWER, OR ASIA’S
WATER TOWER?

5. SKY RIVERS, RIVERS OF ICE, RIVERS OF LIFE

6. SOON THE MONSOON: HOW DOES IT
REACH FAR INLAND?

7. TIBET MAGNETISES THE MONSOON, DRAWS IN
BILLIONS OF TONS OF WATER FLOATING IN FROM
THE OCEANS

8. TIBET IS
THE
ENGINE
OF THE
WATER
CYCLE
THAT
FEEDS
ALMOST
ALL OF
ASIA

9. TIBET HOT AND COLD

10. A PRECARIOUS PLANETARY FUTURE

12. CHINA’S TIBET
PLATEAU
CONSERVATION
LAW COVERS ALL
OF TIBET, ACROSS 6
PROVINCES

13. TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION, QINGHAI, PLUS TIBETAN
PREFECTURES OF GANSU, SICHUAN, YUNNAN, PLUS ARJIN SHAN
OF XINJIANG ALL COME UNDER THIS LEGISLATION

14. IS THIS
GOOD
NEWS?
DOES
BEIJING
NOW
OVERRIDE
PROVINCE
S TO
PROTECT
NATURE?

15. BUT THIS LEGISLATION EXPLICITLY EXPELS TIBETAN
PASTORALISTS FROM THEIR PASTURES
• Article 18: “Systematic protection and zoning and
classification management of national parks, measures
such as strengthening grazing prohibition and
confinement, and strengthening degraded grasslands,
wetlands, desertified land management and soil erosion
prevention and control efforts, comprehensive improvement
of severely degraded land.

16. CONVOY OF
BUSES EXPELLING
TIBETAN NOMADS
FROM THEIR
HOMELANDS.
SOURCE:
QIUSHI/SEEKING TRUTH
CCP THEORY JOURNAL