Global plant growth in decline due to climate change-induced drought. Although
it was once observed that global warming-induced temperature rises and
longer growing seasons benefited plant growth, a new study from the US
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has found that the
droughts caused by warming result in overall decline.
So while
plants in some northern latitudes may continue to grow, their southern
latitude counterparts are decreasing, with an overall loss effect that
impacts crops and thus food security as well.
Study co-author
Dr. Steven Running of the University of Montana, biologist and co-author
of the report, stated, “This is a pretty serious warning that warmer
temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth.”
Many
thanks, Dr. Running and National Aeronautics and Space Administration
study scientists for revealing this potentially disastrous decline of
the world’s flora due to human-caused climate change.
Let us all
speedily adopt effective measures to cool the planet and restore a
verdant ecosphere. Foreseeing the increasing impact of global warming on
all life, during a 2008 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master
Ching Hai pointed out the most crucial way to restore nature’s harmony
and thus save the planet.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Nature can help to absorb some of the carbon dioxide, but we overload
nature, so we have a problem right now and we continue to have problem
if we are not doing anything to prevent further destruction of the
planet.
It’s just the meat industry that causes the most
pollution for the planet, that the planet is overloaded, nature is
overloaded. Everything warms up because of meat and animal products.
So,
if we stop the meat production, if we stop eating meat and harming the
animals, the good benevolent atmosphere will change everything into a
beneficial planet for us.
Even before, our planet was good, but
if we change into vegetarian diet, this planet will become a paradise,
will be plentiful, will be very happy for everybody to live on.
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