August 11, 2007 at 4:48 pm (Buddhism, civilisation, climate change, conservation, earth, environment, global warming, global warming fears, science, spirituality, thoughts, vegetarian, water scarcity)
Many know that the other most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.
Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. While atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen by about 31% since pre-industrial times, methane concentrations have more than doubled.
The number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture. Animal agriculture produces more than 100 million tons of methane a year.
The root of farming livestock is the demand of human desire. This addiction from the mouth is poisoning and depleting our potable water, land, and clean air. Forests are being bulldozed for factory farms and feed crops to feed farmed animals. Farmed animals consume 70 percent of the corn, wheat, and other grains that we grow.
The conclusion is simple: one of the best way to reduce global warming in our lifetimes is to reduce or eliminate our consumption of animal products. Simply by going vegetarian (or stop eating beef, pork and chicken). Just a simple determination from the heart, and everyone can do it, why not we all start immediately ?
Ref . 1. saveearth.org
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August 2, 2007 at 3:45 pm (Buddhism, Tzu Chi, TzuChi, civilisation, climate change, conservation, earth, environment, general, global warming, inspiration, nature, philosophy, science, thoughts, water scarcity, 慈济)
Restrain and conserve might not good for the economy, but it makes good economic sense. We always heard about “A dollar saved is a dollar earned”, the same concept apply. “A kilowatt-hour saved is a kilowatt-hour earned.”, “A kilo-liter water saved is a kilo-liter water earned.”
Whenever I was tempted to spend, I will think about the above phrase : Restrain ourself, restrain ourself and this definitely help us to reduce spending, reduce usage, reduce pollution hence reduce CO2.
This is what everyone of us can do to reduce CO2 and also prevent being trap into the debt slavery in this debt based monetory system society.
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July 30, 2007 at 2:31 pm (conservation, earth, environment, global warming, science, water scarcity)
My July water bill is RM5 (USD1.5). Malaysia water tariff is here. http://www.pba.com.my/. I think this might be one of the lowest rate in the world. Many countries where low water price is giving the public the wrong perception that water is cheap and abundant. I am sad seeing some people do not know know how to appreciate water, like leaving the water tap open when brushing teeth, leaving the water tap open when combing their hair.
In fact, we shall not view water to be a gift of nature that should basically be granted for everyone. We shall be thankful for the goverment for subsidising the water and in return we shall use our water more efficiently and effectively without waste. Not to wait till the goverment to impose penalty by raising water price.
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July 26, 2007 at 4:49 pm (Sydney, climate change, conservation, earth, environment, general, global warming, ipcc, nature, science, thoughts, water scarcity)
Don’t think that water scarcity is only happen in rural area of India, China and Africa or only happen in under-developed countries. One example of the well developed city is in Sydney. Sydney’s water supply is one of the largest domestic water supply in the world. The capacity is as big as 9 times of London and 4 times of the New York city. The Warragamba dam is the world largest dam. Yet even with this capacious storage, it has proven to be insufficient. The authority still impose water restriction when the dam water reached certain level low.Ref : http://www.sydneywater.com.au/SavingWater/WaterRestrictions/
These include restrictions on watering lawn, using sprinkler system, washing vehicles, hosing in paved areas, refilling swimming pools, etc.
Many people of the industrialised world tend to think that the technology will protect them from water scarcity like rural area. For every degree of warm we create, we are heading toward a city like Sydney is now.
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July 25, 2007 at 2:21 pm (Buddhism, climate change, earth, environment, general, global warming, ipcc, nature, science, water scarcity)
In western England, the worst flood hit 60 years high hit counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire. The flood has affected power stations and water treatment plants. The authorities said that in Gloucestershire, the western English county worst hit by the deluge, up to 350,000 people could be without running water for the next two weeks.
While in central and southeast Europe, people are struggling with the other extreme. Up to 500 Hungarians are estimated to have died last week as temperatures soared to nearly 42 degrees Celsius (108 Fahrenheit).
Do we still need to prove or argue about global warming or climate change ? Do we have enough time to argue or prove it and stay ignorance about the issues while it is coming.
Well. Global warming is not coming, it arrived !
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June 29, 2007 at 8:51 am (Mahayana, Resource Recycling, climate change, disparity, earth, environment, general, global warming, philosophy, poverty, science, spirituality, thoughts, water scarcity, wealth gap)
Imagine, you have a 2 months old baby. Is this water enough to clean your baby nappies using water that arrives once in 3 days for 15 mins ?
This is a real situation happening in India, Peeplee Ka Bas. The residents can only fill their buckets for 15 minutes every 48 hours. A country with millions of brilliant scientist and programmers. Water crisis is no longer a problem that we can continue ignore.
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June 24, 2007 at 4:44 am (climate change, disparity, earth, environment, general, global warming, love, nature, philosophy, poverty, powerless, water scarcity, wealth gap)
When your finger slightly push the toilet flush, the amount of water that flush your toilet bowl is equal to a Somalian people consume for a day. And these people are walking up to 70km to search for that amount of water.
The easiness to access to water in our city make many of us around have neglected to appreciate this resources.
Transporting water from a far to help these unfortunate is much much harder than transporting foods. If we lost our water due to vapourisation and global warming. It will not be easy to get help from neighbouring countries.
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June 23, 2007 at 3:11 am (climate change, earth, environment, general, global warming, nature, science, spirituality, thoughts, water scarcity)
Unless we stop now, we will really doom the lives of our descendents. If we just go on for another forty or fifty years faffing around, they’ll have no chance at all, it’ll be back to the stone age. There’ll be people around still. But civilisation will go. – James Lovelock
Download the below file of pps file and see where are we heading if the global warming continue to accelerate.
letter_written_in_20701.pps
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