Cholera deaths in Kenya linked to climate change. Severe droughts and intense flooding are among the climate change-induced water woes that Kenya and other Eastern African countries have experienced in recent years.
Along with tolls from these disasters, many people have at times been forced to drink unclean water and thus become exposed to the water-borne pathogen, cholera.
At least 13 people have perished from the disease, with hundreds of cases confirmed, many requiring hospitalization. The government has also shut down schools as a preventive measure.
Cholera causes severe diarrhea and vomiting and can be fatal within 24 hours if left untreated. Kenyan health officials have been working to distribute clean drinking water door-to-door in the affected areas to stop the spread of the disease, and the United Nations Environment Program is calling for such measures
as wetlands and coastal mangrove preservation to restore these natural water purification systems.
Our appreciation, health officials and United Nations Environment Program for your caring assistance in bringing relief to the people of Kenya.
Let us all become part of the solution to climate change through sustainable daily actions on our shared planetary home. During a May 2009 videoconference in the African country of Togo, Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed her concern for the global warming effects already threatening the lives of the African people, also highlighting what could be done to halt them.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Sadly, global warming is affecting African countries in all the severest and some of the most visible ways. Increased temperatures mean erratic rainfall – either too little or too much at a time – so we have ravaging floods that drown the crops and fires that burn the forest.
There are more frequent droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, frosts, freezes, and locusts than before. These impacts of climate change increase food insecurity and the food crisis in Africa. There is also increased risk of diseases. The United Nations is afraid that hundreds of millions of people in Africa are at risk.
This is just a handful of all the news reports coming out about global warming in your land. I’m sure there are more.
So let us try our best to help remind and encourage our leaders to do something. If the world becomes vegan as a group, we can remedy the disasters that affect us globally.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121392§ionid=351020506http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/289412http://www.clubofmozambique.com/solutions1/sectionnews.php?secao=social_development&id=17763&tipo=onehttp://www.nation.co.ke/News/regional/-/1070/885016/-/8rc5bn/-/Mitsubishi debuts the electric i-MIEV. As Japan’s first widely marketed electric vehicle, the clean-running four-seat i-MIEV costs US$30,000 thanks to government incentives. With a top speed of 82-miles-per-hour, the bubble-shaped i-MIEV uses lithium-ion batteries that can be conveniently charged either through a regular electric socket or in just 30 minutes at a special recharging station.
The vehicle, which can cruise up to 160 kilometers on a single charge, is also being tested in the United States for a planned release in the near future. Bravo, Mitsubishi and Japan! We are excited at the emergence of such innovative transport technology and can’t wait to see more vehicles as these speeding us all toward a brighter, greener world.
http://english.cctv.com/program/worldwidewatch/20100402/101089.shtml http://www.insideline.com/mitsubishi/i-miev/first-drive-2010-mitsubishi-i-miev-plug-in-electric.htmlA team of Spanish and Australian researchers confirm that the world’s oceans have reached alarming levels of acidification as they become saturated with greenhouse gases.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/carbon-emissions-lead-to-dangerous-changes-in-oceans_100342477.htmlhttp://www.ideal.es/almeria/v/20100330/sociedad/trabajo-csic-alerta-sobre-20100330.htmlAreas of Rajasthan, India are facing severe drinking water shortages along with poor quality, leading as many as 15% of the villagers to migrate away from their homes.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Acute-water-crisis-in-Bikaner-area/articleshow/5758884.cmsAfter the lifting of a ban on rosewood exports led to the destruction of some of Madagascar’s most diverse forests and the hunting of rare lemurs for meat,the government agreed to reinstate the ban.
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0325-madagascar_rosewood_ban.htmlFollowing a tour of six Pacific Island nations, Formosan (Taiwanese) President Ma Ying-jeou pledges a partnership with the international community to help address rising sea levels and assist in their sustainable future.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/316949,taiwan-to-join-effort-to-save-pacific-islands-from-rising-seas.html#ixzz0k4Tp4g6C
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