Seychelles threatened by rising sea levels. In the Indian Ocean nation of 155 islands and 80,000 people, beaches have become noticeably more crowded as the ocean waters have crept inland within just a decade.
Apart from the country’s infrastructure becoming inundated by the forecast of a two-meter sea level rise, other urgent problems include once-thriving coral reefs that are already dying due to warmer ocean temperatures.
The increased heat is also threatening animal species such as a rare sea turtle that depends on stable temperatures to bear its young. Knowing of this increasingly urgent situation, Seychelles President James Michel had addressed the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Conference in December 2009, saying, “I am not here to celebrate the limited progress, but to speak out once again, as we have always done, of our fight for survival, our human right to exist.”
Your Excellency we are touched by your concerned appeal for climate action. Let us join in united efforts to stabilize the environment for the preservation of our globally shared planetary home. In an October 2009 videoconference in Indonesia, Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed her deep concern for all sinking island nations, offering the one sure remedy for their safety.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: The threats imposed by global warming are more than imminent; they are already here,as you can see through many disasters, upheavals, climate refugees, phenomena around the world.
It’s the rising sea levels as well that force people to lose their home, their ancestral home, to go begging elsewhere; losing also their dignity, losing everything, not just physical possessions, but losing their loved ones as well.
We must change while there is still time. If we want to receive the mercy of Heaven for our life here on Earth, we must first be merciful in granting the same dignity and freedom of life to the animals.
So please, everyone, plant veg, be veg and we can go green later when we’ve already saved the planet.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100212/FOREIGN/702119852/1135/pollarchiveExtra NewsMedia members and animal advocates join in calling for the release of all captive whales and dolphins, as biologists report following a tragic accident that these intelligent and social animals should not be subjected to the extreme stress of confinement.
http://www.pr-inside.com/barker-calls-on-seaworld-bosses-to-r1743829.htm http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/25/whales.seaworld.death/?hpt=T2 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/animal-activists-say-whales-dolphins-should-be-freed/1 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0225/SeaWorld-killer-whale-incident-gives-parents-pause http://www.counterpunch.org/hribal02262010.htmlExtra NewsUS researchers find that human-generated noise pollution such as the sounds of boat engines can impair the response time of marine organisms such as the hermit crab, which could have severe impact on their survival.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/hermit-crabs-noise-distraction.htmlAs Chinese citizens become more conscious of their transportation eco- footprint, many are choosing electric bikes, with approximately 120 million currently on the roads and rising.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100221-electric-bikes-roll-chinaUS-based fuel cell company Oorja Protronics announces a new technology that generates 50 times more power, enabling electric vehicles to travel over 400 miles on a single charge.
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2258169/oorja-fuel-cell-breakthrough
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