International
scientists gathered at the University of California San Diego in the US
last week concluded that nearly all the 20,000 glaciers in the
Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountain ranges are melting. The water from these
melts is placing large lakes on the verge of overflowing, with
residents in the valleys below at risk of floods. According to the
International Commission on Snow and Ice in Kathmandu, Nepal, the
Himalayan glaciers are retreating more rapidly than anywhere else in
the world, and may be gone by 2035. Higher temperatures, reduced
precipitation, black carbon particulates from the burning of fossil
fuels and biomass, and fluctuating monsoon season patterns are
considered the major contributors to their rapid degradation.
We
thank all scientists involved for raising public awareness about the
critical state of the legendary Himalayan mountain range. Let us
quickly heed these urgent calls and transition to loving Earth-saving
lifestyles.
In a November 2008 videoconference with Supreme
Master Television staff in California, USA, Supreme Master Ching Hai
once again voiced her concern for humanity and the planet’s future as
she spoke of the one way to stop the devastating loss of the Himalayan
glaciers.
Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai
Supreme Master Television staff
November 26, 2008 – California, USA
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
The glacier is there to feed the Ganges water and it melted slowly,
slowly as per using. As the human use it, it will melt out, just evenly
distributing day by day like this. But if it’s all melted at one time,
then cities will be drowned, people will die and flood will be
everywhere and later we will have no water even. No reservoir any more.
So either way, either a lot of flood or drought, it’s very dangerous
for the people, especially the people who depend on the Ganges River
and the glacier to survive. I am really worried, but I just pray and
hope that the people who are in power will do something.
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