A
new report by the UK-based charity Oxfam has found that although
Pakistan emits only a small fraction of the world’s total greenhouse
gases, it is being significantly impacted by global warming.
Noting
more frequent and intense extreme weather events along with hotter
summers and warmer winters, the report stated that some 40% of residents
have become increasingly vulnerable to coastal rainfall, increased
cyclones, flooding in some areas and drought in others.
Besides
the property devastation caused by extreme weather events, farmers
report that many crops are also destroyed by floods or diminished by
shortened agricultural cycles overall. The resulting losses are causing
poverty levels to rise.
We are deeply saddened to learn of the
suffering of Pakistan’s gracious people. Let us unite in protecting our
planet for the sake of all cherished inhabitants.
In these
urgent times, Supreme Master Ching Hai has often reminded of the actions
that we can take to alleviate the tolls of global warming, as during a
June 2008 videoconference with our Association members in London,
England.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
It's just getting worse nowadays, more obvious. You just have to tune
in to any TV channels, any radio, read any newspapers; they are full of
reports, almost daily, about world hunger, and the shortage of food,
unaffordable food prices, unaffordable daily necessities, basic
necessities.
And unprecedented frequent disasters. And crop failures
due to bad weathers. And the non-stoppable sea rising levels, high
priced fuels, shortages, incurable or strange new diseases... all of
these are happening now!
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Veganism is the only solution. It's the best, the fastest solution.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
I pray that people in the world wake up on time and just forsake that
piece of meat; then everything will be just fine. Everything will be
beautiful, nice, peaceful.
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