Guyana spends scarce resources to fend off rising seas. As highlighted in a recent article by the international news network Al Jazeera, climate change is already having drastic effects on this small South American nation. Around 90% of the population lives from 50 centimeters to 1 meter below sea level. Between 1955 and 2005, the Guyanese coastal waters rose 17 centimeters, twice the global average.
Devastating flooding in 2005 put the capital under water for months and caused US$2 billion in damages. Now, the country is spending over US$5 million per year, an amount it can hardly afford, to build and maintain sea walls, sluice gates as well as water pumps that return the flooding salt water back to the sea.
Individuals have also been forced to elevate their homes in an effort to prevent constant inundation. Highlighting the global nature of this problem, Guyanese Agriculture Minister Robert M. Persaud stated, “Whatever happens in the climate, it is not situated in a particular part. If you look at … the United States, (or) what is happening in Europe in terms of the weather patterns and what has been taking place (there), we all see that it is becoming everyone's problem and everyone in the global community needs to do something.”
We thank you Minister Persaud, Al Jazeera and Guyana, for sharing information about this urgent situation that we indeed all share. Our prayers for the protection of the good-hearted people of Guyana and other nations facing similar challenges of rising seas, and that governments and individuals join in concerted efforts worldwide to restore the balance of our Earth.
During a February 2009 videoconference in Formosa (Taiwan), Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke with great concern about this distressing predicament as she urged for the immediate actions necessary to protect lives.
Supreme Master Ching Hai :The situation is really urgent. And honestly, every day I'm worried about the fate of many people.
I wish and pray all the able governments and great nations, please help them.
We cannot just sit here and watch them drown.
We do hope we do something so that we can stop the rising sea level the way it is right now and not getting worse so that other nations can still help the already sinking nations.
I wish that all the governments in the world would encourage organic farming to save our world.
The benefit of organic farming for human livelihood, for human health, and for animals' health, natural resources and protection of our planet, all these benefits we cannot even underestimate. So, I just suggest vegan organic.
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2010/12/201012617352069179.html Extra News
At the closing ceremony of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity in Kanazawa, Japan, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announces
the 2011, International Year of Forests as he calls for continued momentum to preserve wildlife and their habitats.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/359217,year-forests-decade-biodiversity.html,
http://www.undpi.org/World-News/UN-looks-to-International-Year-of-Forests-decade-on-biodiversity.htmlRescued after being stunned by the extreme cold off the northerly coast of Massachusetts state,
20 endangered Kemp Ridley sea turtles are flown by the US Coast Guard to southern Florida for rehabilitation and a planned return to the wild.
http://www.happynews.com/news/12142010/coast-guard-giving-turtles-lift.htm
http://eponline.com/articles/2010/12/14/1-coast-guard-gives-endangered-sea-turtles-lift-home.aspx,
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101212/NEWS/12120335/-1/rss02
http://www.poten.com/NewsDetails.aspx?id=10865297 US scientists find that the municipal water in 31 out of 35 cities contains the substance hexavalent chromium, a toxic manufacturing byproduct considered to be a likely cancer-causing agent for which no limits have yet been set.
http://www.france24.com/en/20101219-us-water-has-large-amounts-likely-carcinogen-study,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/20/AR2010122002505.html
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