A rally of hope and climate solving action. - 25 Apr 2008 | |
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A rally of hope and climate solving action. Amy Goodman, Democracy Now TV host and award-winning journalist author: I just want to remind us how fast everything is moving, not just on the bad news, but on the good news. Reverend Jim Wallis, best selling author: You change the nation when you do one thing: you change the wind. We have to be those who change the wind. We have to rise up now, and you are the new generation of wind changers. Dr. James Hansen, who is known as the country’s top climatologist, also presented the urgency of climate change, saying that humans have created the “perfect storm” for climate change. Dr. James Hansen, top US climatologist: We have reached a point where we have a real emergency. And the result is that we have in the pipeline much larger climate changes than what we see we’ve seen so far. Dr. Hansen said that many natural phenomena crucial to the climate’s stability have passed their points of no return, such as the melting Arctic sea ice. Dr. James Hansen, top US climatologist: Dr. Hansen, however, concluded with calls to action from the scientific community, including a halt on coal power plant expansion as well as the inevitable need to switch to sustainable energy. Dr. James Hansen, top US climatologist: Now, the bright side of this picture is that if we at once understand this, and take the necessary actions, then we actually have a much better situation, a cleaner atmosphere, a cleaner ocean. And the jobs that are created are actually good jobs, better than coal mining. And I think we could get to this big tipping point where the government and the public all begin to work in the right direction. Dr. James Hansen is also the recipient of the Shining World Hero Award from Supreme Master Ching Hai. Please stay tuned for a feature program about Dr. Hansen on Saturday on Enlightening Entertainment's Shining World Leadership series. We convey our thankfulness, participants of the Earth Day Climate Super Rally. May the proactive energy in all of us inspire one another, along with our societies, governments and nations, to quickly progress towards a sustainable world. speaking about climate change, Supreme Master Ching Hai has also urged for an immediate and large-scale:
So we better be prepared, and whoever in authority and have power must use it to change the way we live our life. Have to clean up our planet, and quick.
If it were up to me, I’d forbid everybody to eat meat. Yeah? Stop immediately. Stop all the pollution cars. National Public Radio (NPR) evaluates the carbon impact of food choices. Kudos, Dr. Solomon and NPR, for raising awareness of the connection between what we choose to eat and the health of our environment. We pray that many will explore the carbon footprint calculator and realize that even one person’s choice of a vegetarian (vegan) diet greatly benefits our planet. Go green and go veg! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89808292 Thank you, scientists, for these vital findings on the life-changing effects of continued climate change. May all governments and individuals alike act now to stop global warming. http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=14531&channel=0 http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010721260 US food providers focus on carbon efficiency. What delicious news! Our thanks, Bon Appetit, for helping raise awareness and providing alternatives for meat and dairy products. May God bless you and all food providers in creating tasty, “low carbon” vegetarian (vegan) meals to nourish our planet as well as the people. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89836312 As the European winner, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, is a world advocate for sustainable policies.
Ms. Liz Thompson, former Minister of the Environment and Energy of Barbados, 2008 Earth Champion for Latin America and the Caribbean Ms. Liz Thompson: Any damage to the environment affects your ability to earn and pay your way as a country. I believe it is important for us to explain to the globe that climate change is not just a new mantra, some new language that has been used on the international conference circuit, but that for some people it represents a threat to their very life. Dr. Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), 2008 Earth Champion for Asia and the Pacific Dr. Atiq Rahman is a leading environment and sustainable development specialist from Bangladesh. He explained how climate change is creating more situations of food insecurity for vulnerable nations. To Dr. Atiq Rahman, you mention a lot about the relationship of food scarcity and climate change. Can you comment a little about how you see these relationships are going to be developing? Dr. Rahman: The critical question is there must be enough food supply and enough food security. Food supply is how much food you produce in the field and taken to the storehouse. Food security is food on the plate. And there is, between those two situations, there is a whole politics of distribution and access. So how do you make sure the poor get their food? Right now, the rice prices have gone so high, that many poor people in Asia don’t have money to buy that food. So, we’re getting into these areas where climate change will create such an amount of natural disasters, where there is drought, floods, cyclones, wrong timing of rainfall, erratic rainfall behavior. So this will bring out instability in the food production system, which will reflect in the market. Our gratitude goes to the concerned leaders in every country who are raising our attention to the important matters that affect people's livelihoods and all beings' lives. May the international community act to address the preventable damage by helping one another in this time of global need. |
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