Journalists remark on videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai.
Held on November 8 in Washington DC, USA, “Humanity’s Leap into the
Golden Era” united concerned participants to discuss the urgent matter
of climate change in an exciting new light that included the
constructive vision of overcoming the planet’s crisis through a vegan
solution that would lead to an even brighter future.
The event had invited Supreme Master Ching Hai as the honored guest to
share her thoughts on questions raised by a group of distinguished
questioners, one of whom was US vegetarian journalist Marysol Varela of
the Orlando Vegetarian Restaurants’ Examiner.
She later wrote an article sharing her impressions of the conference
discussions. “The audience was given staggering facts about the harm
that is being done to the world’s environment with our current
destructive practices. …The most anticipated speaker of the evening was
the Supreme Master Ching Hai. Her words of wisdom reached across the
audience spreading hope and solutions to this impending global disaster.
Supreme Master suggested that by simply adopting a vegan diet, we can
dramatically reduce our carbon footprint. Because meat eating is a
major contributor of global warming, vegetarianism will reduce the
demand for livestock.
She also speaks up for those animals which suffer and die every day in
the hands of farmers by promoting a peaceful coexistence between all
beings in the animal kingdom…. Once humanity has learned to work together to save our planet, then we will have advanced a step closer to the Golden Era.”
VOICE: In fact, as Supreme Master Ching Hai explained during the
conference, it is humanity’s innate tendency to lead a noble,
harmonious lifestyle.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: A compassionate vegan diet is the basic way of a higher being, a
mark of a true human being. A true human being would never kill. A true
being would never harm another, even if his own life is threatened. A real gentleman
steps wisely, understanding that all beings are connected, and that by
taking a life, he is compromising his own human spirit and bringing the bad retribution of killing upon him.
We must all work together to bring Heaven closer to Earth.
VOICE: Our appreciation, journalist Marysol Varela, “Examiner” and all
other media reporting on our planetary crisis. We are grateful to
Supreme Master Ching Hai for her efforts to encourage humanity toward a quick transition to the planet-saving organic vegan lifestyle. Let us all join this caring trend to secure our world’s welfare and to herald an Eden on Earth.
http://www.examiner.com/x-14525-Orlando-Vegetarian-Restaurants-Examiner
Antarctic melting could trigger mass extinction.
Following the release of reports that our planet is on track to
experience a 6-degree Celsius temperature rise by the year 2100, new
studies from the University of Texas, USA show that since 2006, eastern Antarctica
has been shedding around 57 billion tons of ice each year. This study
coincided with the recent sighting of hundreds of Antarctic icebergs that have
broken away and are now floating towards New Zealand, an event that has
caused officials to issue warnings for ships in the region.
Another study by the British Antarctic Survey states that past records,
current temperature indications and total Antarctic ice volume
measurements all point toward a 6 meter sea level rise in the coming years.
This finding has caused a revisiting of the 2007 report by UK’s
Guardian news science journalist Mark Lynas, which describes the
effects of such devastating climate-related change.
The report stated, “It would cause a mass extinction of almost all life
and probably reduce humanity to a few struggling groups of embattled
survivors clinging to life near the poles. Very few species could adapt in time to the abruptness of the
transition.” Mr. Lynas, UK Guardian, University of Texas and British
Antarctic Survey scientists, we are grateful for your work in revealing these findings, despite their disturbing nature.
Let us act swiftly in loving stewardship of our ecosphere while there
still is time. Supreme Master Ching Hai has often emphasized the
urgency of our planetary crisis while encouraging people to take action, as during an interview for the July 12, 2009 edition of the Irish Sunday Independent.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : The truth is that, scientifically speaking, we have a short time
left because we have already waited too long to act. Leading scientists
and organizations are now saying this as well, especially as they find that the tipping points,
which indicate irreversible damage to the Earth, are being reached much
faster than anyone had previously thought and calculated.
Supreme Master Ching Hai :: There are truly too many confirmations of the urgency of our
planetary situation to even name. It is better we concentrate on the
solution to save the Earth. We can still do it.
See, We need the solution, which is organic life-saving vegan diet,
then our future is transformed. Life will quickly become better than
what you could even imagine. So, let us all act now to ensure the future that we want, and the one
we want for our children. That is Be Veg, Go Green, Save the Planet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6597757/Rising-CO2-will-cause-catastrophic-sea-level-rise-finds-Antarctic-study.html
http://www.france24.com/en/node/4931234,
http://www.france24.com/en/node/4931468,
http://www.france24.com/en/node/4931459
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10610140
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/23/scienceandnature.climatechange
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6597757/Rising-CO2-will-cause-catastrophic-sea-level-rise-finds-Antarctic-study.html
Extra News
Climate change related heat, low water levels and drought cause
thousands of fish to lay dead and rotting in the shallow waterways of
Manaquiri city in Amazonas, Brazil, forcing a state of emergency and canceling classes for 2,500 children who travel by water to school.
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=5862167&videoChannel=1
Saying that he sees an agreement within reach, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges all world leaders to work toward
the passage of a legally binding treaty to halt climate change at the Copenhagen conference.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8383922.stm
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has joined his French and British
counterparts in a pledge to support a US$10 billion per year fund that
would help developing nations address climate change.
The European Union has created a first ever Climate Change Commissioner
role in the new European Commission, selecting Danish Minister for
Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard for the role.
http://www.independent.ie/business/european/new-brussels-team-includes-first-climate-change-post-1956924.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Hedegaard