Global warming affects key food crops. Research conducted by a team of scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, evaluated such crops as cassava, which is widely grown in Africa and is the third major source of carbohydrates throughout the world.
The scientists grew cassava under several climate change scenarios, evaluating different levels of CO2 on the crop yields and nutritional value. They found that at double the current atmospheric CO2 levels, cassava yields fell by more than 50 percent moreover, in this condition,the plant’s leaves produced increasingly more toxic chemicals called cyanogenic glycosides, which could be harmful to humans.
Our sincere appreciation, Monash University scientists for your efforts which urge all of us to action as we face a future with more greenhouse gases.
Let us each do our part to return harmony and equilibrium to the planet through our sustainable daily actions.
Supreme Master Ching Hai has frequently offered her insights as we face the urgent matter of global warming.
During a February 2009 videoconference in Formosa (Taiwan) with the 12th President of the Philippines, Mr. Fidel Ramos, she spoke of the fastest way to reduce the world’s CO2 and provide food.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Scientific studies have found that organic farming not only reduces energy usage and produces less CO2, which helps lower greenhouse gases, but it actually allows the soil to absorb CO2 emissions.
Before we even invent any technology to reduce CO2, or before we even reduce all the cars and transportations, if we go organic we reduce 40% of the current CO2 in the air already, and the daily emissions.
If we reduce the livestock raising, then we can reduce all the toxic gases lingering
in our air right now. And if we go organic vegan, then everything will be back to normal as before and even better.
Referencehttp://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE55S2KY20090629 http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava#Human_food Climate-related hunger a mounting tragedy On Monday, humanitarian organization Oxfam released a report that detailed the devastation climate change has had on people who depend on their harvests to survive. As weather patterns become more irregular and extreme, farmers are more impoverished as their harvests fail, with hunger ever more imminent.
Oxfam warns that without intervention, the past 50 years of work to end poverty could be reversed. Calling for commitments in the upcoming United Nations climate talks, Oxfam spokeswoman Julianne Richards said: “Without urgent action to reduce our emissions, climate-related hunger could be the defining human tragedy of this century.”
Oxfam, we appreciate this timely reminder of the pressing issue of global warming that is affecting all aspects of human survival. Blessed be all efforts to assist those in need as we strive for meaningful changes that ensure a sustainable future for all in our world.
Referencehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/06/2617366.htm?site=newsFarmers reforest the Philippines. Over 33,000 growers recently received two hectares of deforested land each, with half to be planted in trees and the other half free for crop cultivation. The lands provided are located in elevated regions and in coastal mangrove areas.
As the initiative seeks to create over 52,000 jobs and restore millions of hectares of forest, Environment Secretary Joselito Atienza said, “Such opportunities will help give our upland families economic resiliency in dealing with the impact of the current global financial crisis while enabling them to take active part in fighting global warming.”
We join in lauding Your Excellency and the Philippines for this opportunity that helps the land, fellow citizens and the environment. May many more countries be inspired by your green example to similarly restore our precious Earth and her inhabitants.
Referencehttp://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/july/01/yehey/top_stories/20090701top10.html Extra NewsInternational environmental group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) urges leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) nations to commit to limiting average global temperature rise well below two degrees Celsius.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090703-environmental-group-wwf-urges-g8-make-climate-pledge A three-week delayed monsoon arrival in Nepal this year means low-yielding or damaged crops for rice farmers, with food shortages remaining a dire threat.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iERBwP52jPAUFvFoR0qz6vOVee7Q The US-based, on-line newspaper Examiner.com, points out that switching to a vegan diet protects the world’s oceans from the ‘dead zones’ caused by planet-warming methane emissions and waterway pollutants, both products of the meat industry.
http://www.examiner.com/x-13282-Cincinnati-Vegetarian-Examiner~y2009m7d3
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