Pakistan adversely affected by climate change. A new report by the UK-based charity Oxfam has found that although Pakistan emits only a small fraction of the world’s total greenhouse gases, it is being significantly impacted by global warming.
Noting more frequent and intense extreme weather events along with hotter summers and warmer winters, the report stated that some 40% of residents have become increasingly vulnerable to coastal rainfall, increased cyclones, flooding in some areas and drought in others.
Besides the property devastation caused by extreme weather events, farmers report that many crops are also destroyed by floods or diminished by shortened agricultural cycles overall. The resulting losses are causing poverty levels to rise.
We are deeply saddened to learn of the suffering of Pakistan’s gracious people. Let us unite in protecting our planet for the sake of all cherished inhabitants.
In these urgent times, Supreme Master Ching Hai has often reminded of the actions that we can take to alleviate the tolls of global warming, as during a June 2008 videoconference with our Association members in London, England.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: It's just getting worse nowadays, more obvious. You just have to tune in to any TV channels, any radio, read any newspapers; they are full of reports, almost daily, about world hunger, and the shortage of food, unaffordable food prices, unaffordable daily necessities, basic necessities.
And unprecedented frequent disasters. And crop failures due to bad weathers. And the non-stoppable sea rising levels, high priced fuels, shortages, incurable or strange new diseases... all of these are happening now!
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Veganism is the only solution. It's the best, the fastest solution.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: I pray that people in the world wake up on time and just forsake that piece of meat; then everything will be just fine. Everything will be beautiful, nice, peaceful.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/13+climate-change-affecting-crop-output,-says-oxfam-610-za-04 Extra NewsChina’s Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang announces national plans to promote eco-friendly transportation and build a sustainable, low-emission transport sector.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/16/content_12818213.htmUK researchers at the University of Leeds report that although the ozone hole over the Antarctic has been viewed as a vast environmental threat, its repair is also ending its cooling effect and creating more rapid warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
http://www.physorg.com/news183669926.htmlA report commissioned by the Indonesian government recommends halting peat-land conversion, which accounts for 50% of Indonesia’s total greenhouse gas emissions and increases the risk of flooding.
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0118-indonesia.htmlUS scientists studying historical data from cave samples dating back 45,000 years state that current warm events and cold reversal patterns indicate that the American southwest is heading into a prolonged period of severe drought.
http://www.physorg.com/news183667867.html
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