Flood and water catastrophes loom ahead. Global experts say that devastating
floods on the scale of the recent catastrophes in Pakistan and Australia, and
which used to occur only once every hundred years, are now expected to be as
frequent as every 20 years.
The warning came at an international
conference hosted by Canadian Water Network (CWN), with 300 international
scientists, policy makers, and economists in attendance. CWN executive director,
Bernadette Conant, used as an example the town of Smithers in British Columbia,
which has suffered from three major floods in just the past two
decades.
Global researchers estimate that climate change coupled with
increased population will result in demand for water exceeding supply by 40%,
leaving one-third of the humanity with only half the water required for basic
needs and also affecting food production.
Dr. Zafar Adeel,
chair of the UN Water agency, which coordinates the efforts of 28 United Nations
agencies focused on global water issues, warned, “Climate change will affect
societies and ecosystems most profoundly through the medium of water, but there
is no other way to generalize the crises ahead. At unpredictable times, too much
water will arrive in some places and too little in others.”
Our
appreciative thanks Mr. Adeel, Executive Director Conant, other scientists and
organizations for highlighting this real and urgent issue of our time. May we
quicken our pace to halt climate change and return the planet to her verdant
beauty with sufficient water resources for all.
During a video message
for a June 2009 climate change conference in Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai
addressed the severe water and related crises facing the planet, along with the
actions needed to prevent them.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : Our current course of climate change is
worse than the worst case scenario projected by the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with the damaging and often
fatal effects already being seen through such extreme events as hurricanes,
flooding, droughts and heat waves.
We now can see how imperative it is
to stop the warming of the planet with the greenest of all green policies and
actions, the most compassionate, the most heroic, the most life-saving action,
that is: the vegan diet, organic vegan to be exact. It is the long-term
insurance against climate change.
Adopting a plant-based diet can halt
as much as 80% of global warming, eradicate world hunger, stop war, promote
peace, and it will free up the Earth's water as well as many other precious
resources, offering a lifeline for the planet and for humanity.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1361374/Water-demand-outstrip-supply-40-20-years-climate-change-population-growth.html?ITO=1490
Extra NewsA recent UN report states that farmers in
developing nations could double food production within ten years and safeguard
their farms from climate change effects by replacing chemical fertilizers and
pesticides with sustainable organic agriculture methods instead.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/eco-farming-can-double-food-output-by-poor--un/,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/08/eco-farming-double-food-output
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