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Lord Stern says to give up meat to save the planet.
In an interview featured on the front page of the United Kingdom's Tuesday, October 27 issue of The Times, Lord Nicholas Stern, a global authority on climate change, stated that people need to consider going vegetarian to overcome climate change.

Lord Stern, who has previously served as Chief Economist of the World Bank and as advisor to the United Kingdom, published the Stern Review, an analysis of the economics of climate change.

He is now warning that unless actions change, the future holds temperature rises of five degrees Celsius, which will cause Southern Europe to become a desert and require hundreds of millions of people to move, leading to global conflict.

Explaining that such a crisis would come very quickly, he stated, “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” 

Our heartfelt thanks, Lord Stern, for your forthright call for the shift to a veg diet. We applaud your courage and honesty, and pray that climate change expert and leaders around the globe join in the planet-saving vegan diet.  The benefits and planetary need for a plant-based lifestyle have been affirmed on many occasions by Supreme Master Ching Hai, as during an April 2009 videoconference in South Korea.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Some governments already have policies in place and are encouraging people to go green.But my only concern is that the changes are not happening quickly enough.

We really need to stop global warming now, like yesterday, because I’m sorry to say that while all these green changes are good, there is still one action that must be on the top of the list, the most important one, which, once again, is the vegan diet.

The greenest of all the green policy, the greenest of all the green action, the most compassionate, the most heroic, the lifesaving action, the vegan diet. It will eliminate methane, one of the most heat-trapping greenhouse gases. And this will cool the planet the fastest and give us more time to exercise our green policy
or finding better technology.

This is the most valuable step, the vegan step, that the governments could make, could encourage, could pass into law, could inform the people at large. This is the realistic way, the only way that I know, the only way that I see that we can save the planet right now.

2009 EMA Awards honor the creative and eco-conscious.
The renowned US-based Environmental Media Association’s (EMA) 20th annual award ceremony was held last Sunday in Los Angeles, USA. Supreme Master Television was there on location.

SupremeMasterTV correspondent (F): This is Supreme Master Television at Paramount Studios in lovely Los Angeles, California. We’re here at the 2009 Environmental Media Association Awards.
There are many wonderful celebrities coming through here tonight to help give their support to the Earth.

Jennifer Taylor – American actress, “Two and a Half Men” (F): The single most important action is to be aware that what we do affects the planet.

VOICE: This year’s EMA Award recipients included British billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group Ltd., Sir Richard Branson; Centropolis Entertainment, the production company that created Hollywood’s first carbon-neutral film, “The Day After Tomorrow”; and American vegan singer Jason Mraz, known
for his green touring.

Sir Richard Branson – British billionaire entrepreneur (M): I think if everybody could just cut out beef, that would most likely save the rainforests, because the main reason the rainforests are being cut down is that more and more farmers are cutting them down in order to create big cattle plantations.
Hallo, I’m Richard Branson, you're watching Supreme Master Television.

VOICE: Among the many celebrities who graced the green carpet, including Oscar-nominated actor Harrison Ford and Cedric the Entertainer, were proponents of the eco-friendly veg lifestyle, such as famed vegan singer Alanis Morrisette and others.

Lindsey Broad – American actress, Vegetarian (F): I’ve been vegetarian since I was 10. My whole family are vegetarians, so obviously, we’re big animal lovers.
Hi, I’m Lindsay Broad, Be veg, go green and save the planet.

Frances Fisher – British-born American actress, “Titanic,” Vegetarian (F): You know it’s time that people realize that we don’t need animals to eat. We’re not in the Dark Ages anymore.
And it’s possible to get as much protein as you need through other forms and even vegetables. Hi, I’m Frances Fisher. I’m a vegetarian. Be veg, go green and save the planet. Save yourself.

Marilu Henner – American actress, national bestselling author, Vegan (F): We’re destroying our planet because we’re not green. Because we’re not you know eating vegan, like we should be.

SupremeMasterTV (F): How long have you been vegetarian?

Marilu Henner (F): 30 years. Hi, I’m Marilu Henner, author of “The Total Health Make-Over.” Be veg, go green, save the planet.

Louie Psihoyos – Director of “The Cove”, Photographer (M): Be veg, go green, save the planet.
VOICE: Congratulations, shining honorees of the EMA Awards! May fame, art and media continue to serve their noble roles in helping humanity awaken to harmonious, life-saving ways.
Reference
http://www.ema-online.org/awards.php
http://www.americansuperstarmag.com/galleries/environmental-media-awards-2009-red-carpet-photo-gallery?nid=16678&picture=0

Signs of a returning Aral Sea.
Once the fourth largest freshwater body in the world, water diversion projects and global warming had caused the Aral Sea to shrink 80% in just the last three years. However, restoration efforts by Kazakhstan that include partnering with World Bank for a retaining dam have resulted in one portion now accumulating fresh water
over areas that had become desert.

The rising water has cooled the regional climate and lowered salinity levels as well. Many thanks, Kazakhstan and World Bank for your efforts to revive the Aral Sea.

May we continue to see such environmental renewals through our greater awareness and respect for Mother Nature.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8914467

Extra News
Professor Bob Pressey of the Center of Excellence for Reef Studies in Australia urges for more protection from overfishing in the Pacific Ocean, as satellite technology reveals the harsh reality of their decline.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/20/2718748.htm?site=news


The Los Angeles Times in California, USA reports on a growing number of persons entering African refugee camps who are not fleeing war or persecution, but are being forced to leave their homes due to climate change induced drought.  
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-climate-refugees25-2009oct25,0,4396751.story
http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/183056.asp