In
an article written for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s online
News, Right Honorable Hilary Benn, Member of Parliament and UK Secretary
of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs cautioned that
biodiversity worldwide is reaching a point of irreversible loss.
Highlighting
the interdependence between human activities and ecological systems, he
warned that deforestation, overfishing, and other environmental abuse
is impacting sustainability on all levels.
Secretary Benn stated,
“…Our ecosystems also sustain us and our economies – purifying our
drinking water, producing our food and regulating our climate. Climate
change and biodiversity are inextricably linked.
We ignore (such)
natural capital at our peril.” His Excellency concluded by urging for
continued protective measures with close monitoring for effectiveness,
saying that the time to act is now.
Our earnest appreciation,
Your Excellency Hilary Benn, for bringing attention to the vital
safeguarding of Earth’s biodiversity. Let us be quickly motivated to
work together in saving our irreplaceable planet and co-inhabitants.
Concerned
for our global welfare, Supreme Master Ching Hai has often emphasized
the need to act to protect all beings on Earth, as during July 2008
Heart-Touch Tour videoconference in Formosa (Taiwan).
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Up to now, we have lost so many, not just marine life, but land
species. They disappear faster than we can imagine. They suffer a lot,
they die, or they completely disappear because of our careless
management of the world.
And we just feel like it doesn’t
concern us or that we are not responsible for their plight, for the
death and disappearance of our precious co-inhabitants. But the fact is
that we are responsible.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
We have to stop the harmful effect of meat consumption, then we will
see a happy, sufficient and satisfied world manifest in front of our
eyes in a matter of weeks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8461727.stm http://www.hilarybennmp.com/41c571d4-9a4c-85c4-3104-a7b2af04423e http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8467746.stm http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/ http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/01/biodiversity_year.html
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