Saving the Amazon rainforest from exploitation - 17 Jun 2009 | |
Saving the Amazon rainforest from exploitation.
A new study published in Science magazine found that clearing the Amazon for economic gain only brings a short period of financial profit while permanently damaging the environment. For example, since the early 1990s, one-third of the areas cleared for cattle have been abandoned and left uselessly vacant. Researchers found similarly that the income, life expectancy and literacy of the people engaging in these activities also fell over time. Scientists such as Dr. Carlos Nobre of Brazil’s Space Research Institute and chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program are thus calling for the halt of such exploitation, saying that it ultimately harms both people and the climate. Dr. Carlos Nobre – Brazil Space Research Institute, Chair of International Geosphere-Biosphere Program in Stockholm, Sweden (M): We need to abandon the economy, the continued expansion of the agriculture frontier in the Amazon, the livestock economy, the illegal lumber economy. But we need to invent what will come after.If we do not take the first step to create this new model, the traditional activities which exist in the Amazon, like the livestock, inefficient factory farming, they will in a few decades have eaten up 30, 40, 50% of the Amazon. VOICE: We thank Dr. Nobre and international researchers for your concern, and pray we may quickly heed your advice to protect the Amazon and people’s lives through wise, sustainable choices. Supreme Master Ching Hai has often spoken about the irreplaceable value of forests, such as during the following discussion via teleconference with Supreme Master Television staff in January 2008. Supreme Master Ching Hai : You see, just like the Amazon rainforest, because it has been there for a long time, thousand of millions of years; it’s the lung of the world. And even if you plant new trees, it’s not the same. Even that. Supreme Master Ching Hai : The bigger the tree, the older the tree, the more effective for producing oxygen and neutralizing carbon dioxide. Supreme Master Ching Hai : So I don’t know if the governments are trained to build something to reflect the heat back to the space a way in such a large area , and such a big huge effective way, like the way nature has made. Supreme Master Ching Hai : It’s not just the technologies because the karma (bad retribution) is more important than just the technology. So we have to meditate on vegetarianism for all the people to have peace and to be vegetarian and the technology added to it as well. Reference |
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