Significa che abbiamo un obbligo di risolvere di ridurre i combustibili fossili, e inoltre altre questioni sul bestiam dell'agricoltura. Una dieta carnivora consuma molta energia.

 

Come mai prima, la consapvolezza sul grave stato del nostro pianeta è molto elevata.
Cittadini da tutto il mondo stanno chiedono azioni ai loro governi, consapevoli che c'è una possibilità di correggere il corso dell'umanità.

Durante un'intervista telefonica sul cambiamento climatico concessa dalla Somma Maestra Ching Hai con il giornale Irish Independent, il giornalista ha chiesto se avesse un messaggio per i leader del mondo

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Somma Maestra Ching Hai: Direi ai leader del mondo di dare alle persone un più ampio incoraggiamento per uno stile di vita senza prodotti animali, perché è completo, è salutar, è nobile e salverà il mondo. Per favore lasciate perdere tutti gli inutili protocolli e la politica.

Ora è un'emergenza. Abbiamo bisogno di azioni diverse e azioni immediate per salvare il mondo.
E' urgente. Per favore siate leader eroi. I cittadini del mondo si rivolgono a voi per salvare le loro vite e le future generazioni ricorderanno la vostra giusta leggenda.

Usate il vostro grande potere, per questa nobile causa. Perché avete solo una possibilità per prendere questa straordinaria decisione.

Abbiamo solo una possibilità, solo questa possibilità per salvare il pianeta.

Per favore fatelo.

 

AUDIO: Marianne Thieme cofondatrice del Partito per gli Animali dei Paesi Bassi, un partito politico che ha affermato che gli animali devono essere trattati con rispetto dagli umani. Lei è il leader del partito nel Parlamento Danese.

La signora Thieme ha chiaramente denfinito cosa significherebbe per il Regno Unito se i suoi cittadini adottassero un'alimentazione senza carne. 

 

Marianne: Se tutti nel Rengo Unito non mangiassero carne 7 giorni alla settimana, si risparmia 91 mega tonnellate di emissioni di gas serra.
Senza dubbio, questo corrisponderebbe alle eliminazioni di tutte le emissioni di gas serra di 12.5 milioni di case nel Regno Unito.

Cioè metà delle case del Regno Unito. Se tutti i britannici non mangiassero carne per 6 giorni alla settimana, si risparmierebbe più carbonio della rimozione di tutte le auto dalle strade del Regno Unito, 29 milioni di auto.

 

Se ognuno nel Regno Unito si astenesse dal mangiare carne per 5 giorni alla settimana, si risparmierebbe 65 megatonnellate di CO2 di emissioni di gas serra.

Questo farebbe risparmiare più delle riduzioni di emissioni raggiunte se si eliminasse tutta l'elettricità in tutte le case del Regno Unito.

Se tutti i britannici non mangiassero carne per 4 giorni alla settimana, risparmierebbero 52 mega tonnellate di emissioni CO2.

Questo farebbe risparmiare più carbonio di togliere dalla strada il 70% di tutte le auto nel Regno Unito.
E tre giorni senza carne avrebbe gli stessi effetti positivi sulla riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra sostituendo tutte le apparecchiature domestiche come frigoriferi, congelatori, lavastoviglie e lavatrici con apparecchiature a efficienza energetica o isolando le pareti, installando doppi vetri, bollitori efficienti e termostati.

 

AUDIO: L'Irish Independent, il quotidiano più letto d'Irlanda, ha invitato la Somma Maestra Ching Hai a un'intervista telefonica per condividere le sue visioni su quello che deve essere fatto per salvare il pianeta.

Di seguito, un estratto della risposta della Somma Maestra Ching Hai alla domanda del giornalista dell'Irish Independent su che tipo di mondo avremmo se diventassimo tutti vegetariani.

 

Somma Maestra Ching Hai:  Non avremmo più la Terra; avremmo il Paradiso. Siccome l'atmosfera che generiamo è amore e gentilezza per l'alimentazione vegetariana,

senza uccisioni, abusi e sofferenze per gli animali né malattie per noi, saremmo più sereni, più compassionevoli.

Il positivo attira il positivo e avremmo abbondanza di tutto.
E avremmo una coscienza felice e un cuore amorevole per i nostri esseri, umani  e animali. E allora vivremmo in perfetta armonia e pace.

 

Andrew Revkin, The New York Times journalist, USA:
The cheapest meats would come from industrial scale farming which has other questions.
There is a lot of water, there is a lot of pollution that results from large scale farming.
So eating down the food chain is something that many scientists feel in a growing global population is something that would be important.

VOICE: According to the Stockholm International Water Institute, 70% of all water goes to producing food, compared to 20% by industries and a mere 10% to households. Now consider:

It takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of lettuce;25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat;49 gallons to produce a pound of apples;

815 gallons to produce a pound of chicken; 1,630 gallons to produce a pound of pork;and 5,214 gallons of water to produce just one pound of beef.

Supreme Master Ching Hai:  We have choices.

We have jobs, we create green energy.

Yeah? Sustainable energy and even growing vegetables now is on demand.

We are short of food; everywhere is food shortage. Everywhere the food price rising so high that people, even middle class people are having difficulty to make ends meet.

So growing vegetables now should be profitable, should be a very good incentive already.

If the government encourages them, explains to them, they will know it. And the best is if the government can do it. But you, individual citizens of the world can also do it.
Try to go to the farmers one by one, whenever you can make the time to go, even though we are not in a power position like the government.

But we can try, one by one to persuade the farmers to change their lives, to grow vegetables to feed humans instead of raising animals.

Tell them the picture. Tell them the situation.

 

 

Dr Rajendra Pachauri (Chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change): If you look at the impacts of climate change on water, on human health, on agriculture, on ecosystems, we really are getting into a zone where these impacts are going to become very serious, even with a 1 to 1.5 degree increase in temperature.

So we really don't have a moment to lose and I think if the world wants to stabilize the Earth's climate and therefore minimize or eliminate the threat of harmful impacts, then we have to move very quickly.

 

SupremeMasterTV Reporter: As the chairman of the IPCC, is there any advice that you would like to give to leaders and governments around the world regarding the huge amount of carbon emissions produced by the animal agriculture industry and what action we should be taking in regarding this?

Dr Rajendra Pachauri (Chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change):
The entire meat cycle is very, very intensive, in terms of carbon dioxide emissions.
Right from the moment you cleared forests as pasture land, you have cattle grazing over there then cattle are killed and then refrigerated.

If you look at some of the estimates, that really seems staggering. But more than anything else I think it's a win-win solution to eat less meat.

There is enough medical evidence, that the levels of consumption of meat that we have in the world today on a per capita basis, particularly in societies where that's a very large part of the diet, it's something that's even harmful for human health. And therefore if you turn to eating less meat then as I said, individuals
would be healthy and so would the planet!

 

The main cause of the danger to our survival right now is caused from meat diet.

The more we stick to the meat diet, the more we need oil and other fuel, resulting in even more shortage in all necessities.

So I suggest only one thing: just to go veg. Be vegetarian. Choose a vegetarian diet. Then all will cool down. All disasters

will disappear.We will see how simple and happy life can be, and how we will think clearly, and how our heart will be more open, more blissful.

We can understand many more things than we have up to now.

And that, we really can live with much far less than what we thought possible, and still be happy, survive, satisfied, and healthy.

 

 

Scientists have calculated that we would actually save more water by forgoing one pound of beef, or four hamburgers, than by not showering for at least six months.

Dr. David Archer: It's very clear that when you grow grain and then feed it to animals and then eat the animals, you lose 90% of the energy from the original grain, and so not only can you feed fewer people on the agriculture that you have but as they discovered, it also requires a lot more fossil fuel energy to make that happen.

 

Supreme Master Ching Hai: We have to choose the vegetarian diet, no more animal breeding. Choose organic farming, helping each other, sharing the food that we have, because if we are vegetarian, all of us, we would have so much food to share with everybody: no one will ever go to sleep hungry at night anymore. And then we will save a lot of time, energy, money to help them also combat disease and rebuild their lives. Everything's possible, because there will be no more war, even with animals.Peace begins at home.

 

Senator Andrew Bartlett - Member of Australian Parliament - Queensland, Animal welfare advocate & vegetarian:
Global warming is probably the most important issue facing all of us and for taking the long term view we're facing an extremely serious threat of major climate change.

And frankly if we allow the current growth in livestock production to continue to occur then all of the other things that we try and do in changing the way

we generate our energy is going to be cancelled out.

Dr. Jonathan Patz, Lead author of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, Professor of Environment and Public Health:
This is a challenge that is quite urgent.

 
I mean it's really quite urgent, according to climatologists. We need to act soon, as in now.

 

Supreme Master Ching Hai: You see, we all know already through scientific evidence,and UN report that the stock raising causes a lot of methane gas, yes? And also, nitrous oxide,

which is 300 times approximately more deadly than CO2, yes? If we stop the worst cause of global warming, meaning stock raising, animal breeding, then we will be able  to save the planet. We have to stop the killing of man or animals. We have to stop producing animal's products. And we have to stop using it, ok? 

Three stops: Stop killing, stop producing, stop using.
And stop eating it of course;

 stop eating the meat. Then the methane gas and the nitrous oxide gas will stop! And then we cut already, a big chunk of pollution off our air, and