Yes, be veg be green and save our planet!

Hopeful message:
Many governments are encouraging people to eat more vegetable and less meat. :):) If the media can join in to broadcast: Go Veg, Be Green to Save the Planet, it would help tremendously.
Let's hope everyone joins in to save the planet. Together we can make it!!! : )

2 recent reports on Global Warming

Recent reports on Global Warming:

Methane Gas release from Oceans:
A Storehouse of Greenhouse gases is opening up in Siberia:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,547976,00.html

extracts:The report shows that Russian polar scientists have strong evidence that the first stages of Methane Hydrates melting are underway.In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons.

"This submarine hydrate was considered stable until now," says the Russian biogeochemist Natalia Shakhova.The permafrost has grown porous, says Shakhova, and already the shelf sea has become "a source of methane passing into the atmosphere."

The Russian scientists have estimated what might happen when this Siberian permafrost-seal thaws completely and all the stored gas escapes. They believe the methane content of the planet's atmosphere would increase twelvefold. "The result would be catastrophic global warming," say the scientists.

Animal Farming and Global warming:
Report on Global farm animal production and Global Warming: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2008/11034/11034.html

The report is a comprehensive study on how animal farming contributes to Global Warming.

Canadian Geneticist Part 1

Interview with David Suzuki. Human has forgot that we are part of nature. We also depend on clean air, clean water, clean soil for survival.
Human has the faculty to look to the future, look at the opportunities and the pitfalls and act accordingly.
Leading scientist are warning about climate issues and telling us about the catastrophies
that is ahead, but world leaders are not acting fast on it. [Because of economics etc,etc]:(
Log on to www.davidsuzuki.org for some solutions. Solution includes taking more vegetarian meals / taking public transport/ conserve electricity etc.

Canadian Geneticist Part 2

Part 2 of Interview. David talks about the people in the developed nations using too much resources of the planet. [Big house, huge spendings, lots of waste.] Developed nations have to reduce consumption. Humans have thought that consumption will lead to happiness. But actually it's harmonous human relationship that leads to happiness. Endless consumption has lead to huge environmental destruction.
Human have to put a value to everything. A CEO of a tree cutting company says that 'A tree has no economic value if it stays in a forest. It only has economic value if it is being cut down.' But we forget that when the tree is in the forest, it is a tremendous help to the environment. It absorbs CO2 from the air and place O2 into the atmosphere, it's roots hold the soil and prevent erosion, it provides shade and is a home to many animals. But all that has no economic value and so they cut the trees down. :( We really have to relook at our economic sense and put a priceless value on the trees, forests, clean water, coral reefs so that we will conserve these natural resources for the balance of the Ecosystems on Earth. : /

Canadian Geneticist Part 3

Interview with David Suzuki, scientist and environmentalist. Informative. He talks about the reverance for nature. The UN report: Lost of 55 thousand animal spieces per year. The analogy of we are like a car heading towards a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and yet no one is putting the brakes on. [The ones who knows are locked in the back of the car :( ] The interconnection of all life.