Creating a lasting, peaceful world.
Among the world’s legislators, media, and the public, recognition of the need to lower meat consumption to reduce carbon emissions is growing. It is becoming more widely known that the livestock industry generates more greenhouse gas pollution than all transportation combined. A Dutch study released in February found that a global reduction of meat intake could halve the cost of mitigating global warming, while a completely animal-free diet could save 80% of this cost.

In the recent climate change conference broadcast live on television and radio from Togo, Africa, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke as the honored guest to shed light on the conference theme: “Be Organic Vegan to Save the Planet.” She offered the following insights to a guest participant’s question about the immediate and visual changes to the environment if we all switched to a vegan diet.


VOICE: We are ever grateful to Supreme Master Ching Hai who conveys a great message of hope to humanity at this crucial time. Through the simple yet powerful step of adopting a vegan diet, may we achieve our shared vision of a peaceful and compassionate world.

Please tune in to Supreme Master Television’s Words of Wisdom for the full rebroadcast of this live event at a later date, with multi-language subtitles.

Glaciers quickly retreating in the Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
 International scientists gathered at the University of California San Diego in the US last week concluded that nearly all the 20,000 glaciers in the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountain ranges are melting. The water from these melts is placing large lakes on the verge of overflowing, with residents in the valleys below at risk of floods. According to the International Commission on Snow and Ice in Kathmandu, Nepal, the Himalayan glaciers are retreating more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, and may be gone by 2035. Higher temperatures, reduced precipitation, black carbon particulates from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass, and fluctuating monsoon season patterns are considered the major contributors to their rapid degradation.

We thank all scientists involved for raising public awareness about the critical state of the legendary Himalayan mountain range. Let us quickly heed these urgent calls and transition to loving Earth-saving lifestyles.

In a November 2008 videoconference with Supreme Master Television staff in California, USA, Supreme Master Ching Hai once again voiced her concern for humanity and the planet’s future as she spoke of the one way to stop the devastating loss of the Himalayan glaciers.