Our Oceans are Under Attack

Amen, Brother.

 

More and more Americans are passing on gluten — some for medical reasons, most by choice. Others are adopting diets that exclude meat, or insisting on the kinds of unprocessed foods that early man would have hunted and gathered.
All of this is a challenge to the traditional Thanksgiving feast,

Perhaps its the sleep-inducing chemical, tryptophan, in turkey that clouds the minds of Thanksgiving left-over lovers from realizing the ecological footprint a colonial diet leaves on Mother Earth-Pachamama-and Indigenous peoples

 

Australia's ecological footprint

Australia has one of the world's largest ecological footprints per capita, requiring 6.25 global hectares per person. Australia’s ecological footprint is made up mostly of carbon emissions, followed by the biologically productive area required for cropland and grazing.

If the rest of the world lived like we do in Australia, we’d need the regenerative capacity of 3.6 Earths to sustain our demands on nature. The message is clear and urgent.

We have been exceeding the Earth's ability to support our lifestyle. Habitats are being destroyed; the soil and waterways are being irreparably degraded. We must get back into balance!

Each of us can make some simple changes that will add up to a great deal of relief for our increasingly fragile planet by starting to going vegetarian and stop slaughtering our ocean and butchering animals when it’s well proven humans have no need to do so by following the conscience and considerations for all living earthlings, the rewards of leading a much healthier life, physically and morally that has not a need for weapons of mass destruction

 

Goce gravity map traces ocean circulation | BBC

 

A Lifesaving Transplant for Coral Reefs | New York Times

 

How humans treat animals leads to how they treat each other including the environment "our oceans"


Nepal's animal slaughter begins

Hordes of Hindu worshippers were Friday slaughtering thousands of animals in a remote corner of Nepal to honour their goddess of power, defying a chorus of protests from rights activists.

Sword-wielding devotees have poured into the village of Bariyapur near the Indian border which will become the world's largest abattoir during the two-day festival, with animals ranging from buffaloes to rats butchered.

"It is very festive here, everyone is excited," said head priest Mangal Chaudhary at the slaughter site near a temple devoted to Hindu goddess Gadhimai.

Animal carcasses and severed heads were piling up in a large field near the village where thousands of devotees were carrying out the sacrifices, eyewitnesses told AFP.

"It is very bloody... you can hear the animals moaning," said Rameshwor Mehta, 50, who was waiting to offer his prayers.

Worshippers on the first day were sacrificing mainly buffaloes, thousands of which have been coralled into holding pens in the field, before moving on to other animals.

Sita Ram Yadav, a 55-year-old farmer who had travelled three hours to attend the festival, said the atmosphere was "like a carnival" with devotees packing the area.

"I am offering a goat to Gadhimai to keep my family safe. If you believe in her, she grants your wishes," Yadav told AFP.

Worshippers from Nepal and neighbouring India have spent days sleeping out in the open and offering prayers to the goddess at a temple decked with flowers in preparation.

The festival kicked off at midnight amid tight security, with the ceremonial killing of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and a pigeon.


Some 1,200 police personnel were patrolling the village and the field where sacrifices were taking place to control crowds gathered to watch.

Excited devotees attempted to scale a five-foot high (1.5 metre) wall erected around the slaughter site, while police worked to keep the area clear and avert possible clashes between worshippers and activists.

Authorities have also banned the sale of alcohol during the festival, according to local police official Lokendra Malla.

"It is a security issue, people get intoxicated and fight. We don't want any of that," Malla told AFP.

An estimated 300,000 animals had their heads chopped off or throats slit during the last festival in 2009, making it the world's biggest sacrifice of animals at any one site.

The spectacle leaves pools of blood across the temple grounds, the air thick with the stench of raw meat, while authorities eventually dump buffaloes' heads into a large, freshly dug pit.

The goat and chicken flesh is distributed to devotees and villagers, while contractors bid to buy the buffalo and animal hides.

Animal rights activists accused temple authorities of "cashing in on people's beliefs".

"They are extorting money... in the name of entry fees, parking, and so on," said Manoj Gautam, president of Animal Welfare Network Nepal, who is in Bariyapur to protest against the ritual.

According to legend, the first sacrifices in Bariyapur were conducted several centuries ago when Gadhimai appeared to a prisoner in a dream and asked him to establish a temple to her.

When he awoke, his shackles had fallen open and he was able to leave the prison and build the temple, where he sacrificed animals to give thanks.

A campaign to ban the festival has attracted support from celebrities including British actress Joanna Lumley and French movie legend Brigitte Bardot, who has petitioned Nepal's president to end the "cruel tradition

 

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Just how bad global warming is for the world’s polar bear population | Washington Post

 

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And poverty and the resulting hunger aren’t matters of bad luck; they are often a result of people buying the property of traditional farmers and displacing them, appropriating their water, energy and mineral resources, and even producing cash crops for export while reducing the people growing the food to menial and hungry laborers on their own land.

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Yep, that sure explains what happened in Zimbabwe, doesn't it......

Sometimes I wonder just what a lot of these people are smoking because their contact with reality is minimal to nonexistent.

PDW

 

The sun, earth, and nature self regulates very well. Well designed.
If you think you can beat the laws of physics and chemistry, you are too optimistic.
Thinking man causes climate change or can do anything to stop it is arrogance.
Been happening since the world was created and will continue until the world ends.
Over population will result in many deaths.
Dying is part of living.
All living things die. You can't stop that either.
This life is temporary.
Worried about the future?
Eternity awaits.

 

I am worried about my children’s future "earths environment" and their children’s future naturally and would be a greedy fat pig if I was not.
My son Myark and I went and had a look at the Buddhist temple been built next to our house today and took a few pictures of paintings and the painter showing examples of greed such as a greedy meat eaters ways and poor people.

 

Devotees believe the event brings good luck and will encourage Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, to answer their wishes.
“The sights and sounds are unimaginable,” wrote Jayasimha Nuggehalli director of the Indian branch of the Humane Society International. “Pools of blood, animals bellowing in pain and panic, wide-eyed children looking on, devotees covered in animal blood, and some people even drinking blood from the headless but still warm carcasses.”
An Italian charity, Partito EcoAnimalista, called Gadhimai “unparalleled religious madness”, saying the buffaloes are not given food or water for several days before the slaughter to make them docile and weak.
Peta also launched a petition calling for the “horrifying display of violence” to be stopped.
Its letter read: “The frenzied slaughter of hundreds of thousands of goats, chickens, buffalo and other animals only tarnishes Nepal's international reputation. Numerous animals, already weakened by their long journeys, die from exhaustion, starvation or dehydration before the massacre begins.”
Several Hindu leaders have also argued that the ritual goes against core religious beliefs.
Pictures of the slaughter showed carcasses of countless beheaded and mutilated animals surrounded by pools of blood as young boys watched the bloodshed.

 

Looks like quite a job to clean up the mess !

 

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32 Countries Where Global Warming Could Make Violence Worse | Mother Jones