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This is only the beginning, the world is choking: Time to Wake up and take the right steps, otherwise soon, you have to pay for oxygen for the breath of life! Think that through!
‘Enjoy It While It Lasts: Dropping Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth.’
Photo: Daily Mirror, Friday 13 September 2019
‘Brazil’s Amazon rainforest – the world’s largest rainforest responsible for 20 percent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere – is burning at an unprecedented rate right now. Often referred to as “the lungs of the planet,” the Amazon is home to more than three million species of animals and plants, and one million indigenous people. It is also a vital carbon storage that slows the pace of global warming…’- Continue to read
Amazon on Fire!
‘The Amazon is burning at a rate not seen since we started keeping track.
The smoke is reaching cities 2,000 miles away.’-INSIDER
'Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs'
‘Cutting emissions more urgent than ever, say scientists, with forest producing more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.’
‘The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time.
The emissions amount to a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to a study. The giant forest had previously been a carbon sink, absorbing the emissions driving the climate crisis, but is now causing its acceleration, researchers said.
Most of the emissions are caused by fires, many deliberately set to clear land for beef and soy production. But even without fires, hotter temperatures and droughts mean the south-eastern Amazon has become a source of CO2, rather than a sink.
‘Burning for Burgers: Amazon Rainforest Set Ablaze for Cheap Meat’
Photo:RainforestRescue
“The first very bad news is that forest burning produces around three times more CO2 than the forest absorbs. The second bad news is that the places where deforestation is 30% or more show carbon emissions 10 times higher than where deforestation is lower than 20%.”-Luciana Gatti, at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil
'Growing trees and plants have taken up about a quarter of all fossil fuel emissions since 1960, with the Amazon playing a major role as the largest tropical forest. Losing the Amazon’s power to capture CO2 is a stark warning that slashing emissions from fossil fuels is more urgent than ever, scientists said.
The research used small planes to measure CO2 levels up to 4,500m above the forest over the last decade, showing how the whole Amazon is changing. Previous studies indicating the Amazon was becoming a source of CO2 were based on satellite data, which can be hampered by cloud cover, or ground measurements of trees, which can cover only a tiny part of the vast region…’- Continue to read
‘Scientists Warn Climate Change Is Suffocating the World's Oceans.’
‘Low oxygen caused the death of these corals and others in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
The dead crabs pictured also succumbed to the loss of dissolved oxygen.'| Arcadio Castillo/ Via Seeker
‘German scientists have determined what many have feared: Climate change has reduced the amount of dissolved oxygen in the world's oceans, a situation that can have dire consequences for marine organisms.
Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtze Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany found that between 1960 and 2010, the oxygen content in the world's oceans declined by 2 percent. The study also notes that because oxygen is not spread out evenly among the world's oceans, the overall 2 percent decline means that some areas have seen a much steeper decline in oxygen than others.
The Pacific Ocean, the world's largest, lost the most overall volume of oxygen, although the most precipitous decline occurred in the Arctic Ocean where climate change is ravaging the environment. The findings were published in the February edition of the journal Nature…’- Continue to read
The Wisdom of Mother Nature belongs to all Life.
Let be guided and inspired by Her and Save the Web of Life
'Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others’ faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are.
Be as you appear.'- Rumi
Photo: Petal Republic
If something is abundantly so clear, it is extremely obvious and self-evident
Discover what you love, what you value
Then,for sure, you will look after it.
Be in love with life and the living and the world will be a better place.- Kamran Mofid
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the world on fire
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the oceans on fire
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: From inside out You are now fully Plasticised!
Do we love the world enough to look after it, to save it?
‘Nature and Me’: Realigning and Reconnecting with Mother Nature’s Wisdom- A Five Part Guide
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What if the Amazon Rainforest Disappeared?
Photo: YouTube
Save the Lungs of Earth-Amazon Rainforest
Watch the video: So What if Amazon Rainforest Disappeared?
Amazon rainforest ‘will collapse if Bolsonaro remains president’
‘The collapse of the Amazon rainforest is inevitable if Jair Bolsonaro remains president of Brazil, academics and environmental activists have warned amid a fresh government assault on protections for the forest.
Despite evidence that fire, drought and land clearance are pushing the Amazon towards a point of no return, they say the far-right leader is more interested in placating the powerful agribusiness lobby and tapping global markets that reward destructive behaviour.
The onslaught on forest safeguards has picked up pace. On Wednesday the lower house was due to vote on legislation that would reward land grabbers by legalising ownership of property that had been illegally invaded and cleared before 2014.
...Since Bolsonaro took power in 2019, deforestation and fire in the Amazon have risen to their highest levels in more than a decade. The past three months have continued that trend, though slightly behind last year’s peaks. Given the tinder-dry conditions in many parts of the Amazon, there are fears that the usual peak of the fire season in July and August could be worse than usual.
Scientists suspect the rainforest may be slipping into a series of vicious cycles. At a local level, land clearance and burning led to extended droughts and higher temperatures, which in turn weakens the resilience of the ecosystem and leads to more fire…’-Continue to read
And this is the man who is destroying the world, a very good friend of America and the western world!!
Trump sings the praises of the ultra-right wing politician engaged
in Ecocide who is also a COVID-19 denier
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro presents U.S. President Donald Trump with a Brazil national team jersey at the White House in
Washington, DC, on March 19, 2019. Photo: Pool / Getty Images / CNN)
‘Jair Bolsonaro: a danger to Brazil, and the world.’- Editorial, The Guardian, 5 April 2021
‘The prospect of the rightwing extremist Jair Bolsonaro becoming Brazil’s president was always frightening. This was a man with a history of denigrating women, gay people and minorities, who praised authoritarianism and torture. The nightmare has proved even worse in reality. Not only has he used a dictatorship-era national security law to pursue critics, and overseen a surge in deforestation of the Amazon to a 12-year high, he has allowed coronavirus to rampage unchecked, attacking movement restrictions, masks and vaccines. More than 60,000 Brazilians died in March alone. “Bolsonaro has managed to turn Brazil into a gigantic hellhole,” Colombia’s former president, Ernesto Samper, tweeted recently. The spread of the more contagious P1 variant is imperilling other countries…’- Continue to read
See also: 11 Things That Will Happen to Our Planet If the Amazon Rainforest Burns Down Completely
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If something is abundantly so clear, it is extremely obvious and self-evident
Discover what you love, what you value
Then,for sure, you will look after it.
‘Let the beauty we love be what we do.’- Rumi
Be in love with life and the living and the world will be a better place.- Kamran Mofid
The time is now to challenge the accepted wisdom that has denied and degraded
the people and the environment
Neoliberalism destroys human potential and devastates everything that is good and valuable
Photo: Kamran Mofid, a flower of love from our garden, Coventry, July 2021
To save the world I urge you to move from amor fati, 'embracing our fate', to amor mundi, ‘love of the world’.
Walking in Love for our Children’s Sake
Photo:Medium
Surely, as we love our children, then, we must also love the world. We must act now, so that we may maintain a prosperous economy and a cohesive and just society that will not leave an enormous burden and costs on future generations, our children and grandchildren. This is our moral and spiritual calling
Lest We Forget: The key that will unlock the door to amor mundi is EDUCATION. But, of course, Not any EDUCATION!
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.' ―
‘Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.’— Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Education
‘From the Latin educare, to educate means to lead into or draw out. Education is the activity of leading a child into the world, of drawing her into the world. Parents educate their children by drawing them out of their private selves and into the world of the family, their community, and their society.
‘Schools educate, in turn, by drawing students out of the confines of their families and into the wider political and social world. Education is always an entry into an old world. And yet, it is always a new experience with infinite possibilities for every new initiate.’- Education, Hannah Arendt tells us in the quotation above, is about the love for the world…’-The Crisis in Education
The Love of the World
This is How Education Can Save The World: A Perspective from the GCGI
Lest We Forget: We are called to be guardian angels of the earth and "sons and daughters of the rainbow." The challenge is to see ourselves "as alongside things, as members of a larger planetary and cosmic community."- Leonardo Boff, Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
Photo: HuffPost
Education to Save the World
'Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world'.- Lao Tzu
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Caring for the World, Mother Nature and the Sacred Earth: A Perspective from the GCGI
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the world on fire
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the oceans on fire
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: From inside out You are now fully Plasticised!
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have now suffocated the world!
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And now for your enjoyment and also to focus our minds on what is valuable, rewarding and life-enhancing,
please see this timeless video: “What a Wonderful World” with David Attenborough
'I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... What a wonderful world…'
See the Video: What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough
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‘You eat thousands of bits of plastic every year.’: ‘Our environment is so saturated now with plastic
that it seems almost inevitable that we were going to absorb it somehow.’
Our life is plasticised!
Photo:How plastic appeared in our lives
‘New research shows microplastics present in frequently consumed fruit and vegetables. It is time to ban throwaway plastic packaging and support research into the health impacts of plastic pollution. The longer we wait, the more plastic we will eat.’
Indeed paraphrasing the words of the wise First Dog on the Moon, You are now all walking plastic bags!
Yes, Humans, You have done it, You have invited chaos and disaster into your lives:
From Fish to Humans, Microplastics have invaded virtually every crevice on Earth
See also: Microplastics Have Invaded The Deep Ocean — And The Food Chain
Microplastics have invaded the food supply
Plastic bags and bottles littered on a beach.-Photo: plastic pollution
Tiny bits of plastic have seeped into soil, water, air, rivers and oceans, the food chain and more, posing a life-changing threat to animals and humans.
You’re eating microplastics in ways you don’t even realise
Are You Eating Plastic for Dinner? | Short Film Showcase
‘The plastic in our bodies’
‘When two Austrian scientists discovered last year that it's likely most people have plastic inside their bodies, it wasn’t because they had invented some new, complicated scientific method. It was because they were the first to check.
‘Their approach was simple. They asked eight people, mostly in Europe, but also in Japan and Russia, to keep a weeklong food diary. Then, they examined stool samples from their subjects, looking for plastic.
‘They found it in every single one: On average, 20 tiny pieces in each 10 grams of stool; given that humans poop on average 400 to 500 grams a day, that means their subjects were likely passing some 800 to 1,000 pieces of so-called microplastic daily…’ Continue to read
See also: From Fish to Humans, A Microplastic Invasion May Be Taking a Toll
Photo:knowledgeoftoday.org
‘We are what we eat, and what we eat reveals something about what we are in return. So it shouldn’t be all that surprising that
humans are now apparently eating plastic, given what we mostly are is thoughtless enough to have littered the planet with the stuff.’- Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian, 23 October 2018
Our life is plasticised!
‘New research shows microplastics present in frequently consumed fruit and vegetables. It is time to ban throwaway plastic packaging and support research into the health impacts of plastic pollution. The longer we wait, the more plastic we will eat.'
‘Researchers at the University of Catania, Italy, discovered tiny plastic particles in fruit and vegetables like carrots, lettuce, apples, and pears.
‘Apples had one of the highest microplastic counts in fruit, with an average of 195,500 plastic particles per gram, while pears averaged around 189,500 plastic particles per gram. Broccoli and carrots were shown to be the most contaminated vegetables, averaging more than 100,000 plastic particles per gram.
‘Two studies published earlier found that microplastics are penetrating the roots of lettuce and wheat plants, and nanoplastics were absorbed by plant roots. Fruits and vegetables can accumulate microplastics through uptake from microplastic-contaminated water or soil. When we take a bite of an apple, we are almost certainly consuming microplastics along with it…’- Continue to read
And finally, all said and done, the pertinent question must surely be:
Then, what are we going to do about this man-made crisis?
To my mind, the solution is very simple, should we be wise enough to see it! Simply said, rediscover yourself and realise what is important, precious and priceless.
Yes, it is you and your health. So, begin to eat healthily and wholesomely. Give up junk food, unhealthy and expensive takeaways and more. Know your food, where it has come from, how it has been produced and marketed.
All in all, stop abusing your body, your diet and health, and do the same for your family and friends. This is the first step.
It’s so easy to forget the power of what is on our dinner plate for good or bad!!
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Now, when you value yourself and those close to you, you will also begin to value Mother Nature and your home, our Sacred Earth, and then likewise, you will stop abusing the environment. Because, now you know, how important they are to your own sustainability and good health.
You are now ready to take the necessary steps in the interest of the common good to further your new vision and mission for a better life.
See, I told you, it is so simple to be good!! So now, please join the club:
Slow Food for the Common Good to save the World
'If It’s Good for You, It’s Good for the Planet Too!'
Photo:Slow Food International
The way we eat, the food we eat, is a guidance on how seriously we are taking care of ourselves and the Mother Nature
"What we eat is one of the most powerful drivers behind most of the world's major environmental issues,
whether it's climate change or biodiversity loss."-Joseph Poore, University of Oxford
“Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food.” -Hippocrates, The Father of Medicine
What is Slow Food for the Common Good?
The Message to the World: Time is running out for a world at risk of war with itself,
destroying the only collective home we have, Our Sacred Earth
The Time is Now to Take Action.
‘Time is running out for a world at risk…threats that were considered inconceivable, no longer are.’
Photo:littlesun.canalblog.com
A Call to Action from Our Children and Grandchildren.
We Must Not Let Them Down!
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