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.
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