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  • SAVE OUR PLANETEarth is headed for un-inhabitability. A recent collaboration between researchers

  • from the University of New South Wales in Australia and Purdue University in the USA

  • probed the long-term consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Their findings were simple

  • but conclusive: If climate change is not halted promptly, it will not be long before the world

  • can no longer sustain human life. Study coauthor Professor Tony McMichael explained, “Under

  • realistic scenarios extending out to 2300, we may be faced with temperature increases

  • of 12 degrees (Celsius) or even more. If this happens, our current worries about sea level

  • rise, occasional heat waves and bushfires, biodiversity loss and agricultural difficulties

  • will pale into insignificance beside a major threat, (which is that) as much as half of

  • the currently inhabited globe may simply become too hot for people to live there.”

  • Professor McMichael and fellow Purdue and New South Wales University scientists, we

  • thank you for your work in assessing the direct human impact of global warming. May such tragic

  • scenarios be averted through our unified steps to restore planetary harmony and stability.

  • This urgent message has long been emphasized by Supreme Master Ching Hai, who again reminded

  • of the planet-cooling actions needed during a November 2009 videoconference in Washington,

  • D.C., USA.

  • Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai

  • Washington, D.C., USANovember 8, 2009

  • Supreme Master Ching Hai: We still have a little time to change; it’s just that we

  • need to act now, you see, to profit from this so-called catastrophic future awaiting us.

  • We have to act now for all of humanity. Because along with our own survival and health, there

  • is an entire planet that is in trouble, and everyone needs to be vegan to save it. It’s

  • a very simple solution that we might overlook. Because if we all change to vegan, put down

  • the animal products, then we would have a dream world - that I promise. Because like

  • begets like.

SAVE OUR PLANETEarth is headed for un-inhabitability. A recent collaboration between researchers

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