C2O : Carbon to Zero

The major theme of this year’s G8 Summit is the environment, including climate change, global warming, etc .
Japan, the host of this year’s G8 Summit, possesses a spiritual term, mottainai, meaning “do not waste, use everything in a fashion commensurate with its true value.” This concept recognizes the mysterious “giftedness” of all existence, and urges that natural resources must be used appropriately, while simultaneously encouraging responsible and sustainable consumption. The concept also provides a base for recognizing that it is unethical to burden future generations with excessive pollution or other gross environmental imbalances. Development must be environmentally sustainable.
Here are 7 ways to do our part to start making a difference now.
- Commit to a reduction of total national defense and military expenditures and utilize the saved funds to establish an Earth Fund dedicated to environmental protection.

- Establish a new binding framework to follow up the Kyoto Protocols that limits global average temperature rise to avert catastrophic climate change.

- Provide leadership to expand energy efficiency and conservation efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emission rates.

- Advance policies and practices that increase forestation and other forms of carbon dioxide sequestration.

-Recognize that trading “global warming gas emission rights” has at best limited value, and could disproportionately penalize the least developed.

- Facilitate major investments in the development of new sources of energy and technology essential to sustainable development, specifically without jeopardizing food security.

- Implement the recommendations contained in the Kobe 3R Action Plan (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)..

Life and Dry

Forest destruction and converting land, made the green house effect become true more fast in the last decade. Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century. Over the last five years, 600 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sifted through thousands of studies about global warming. The scientific community has reached a strong consensus regarding the science of global climate change. The world is undoubtedly warming, and the warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities. Pollution, especially from cars and from making electricity, is a major cause of global warming. Global warming and climate change issues are perhaps the greatest threat to this planet.
For several years believers and skeptics have argued about the causes of global warming. The problem is complicated because believers warn that man-made causes if left to advance too far may be irreversible. Reduction of the rainforests, continued growth in hydrocarbon industries, increases in livestock, and depletion of the ozone are all considered factors in the debate. Skeptics maintain that the climate change is a natural phenomenon, that man's effect on nature is largely overrated. The fact is that for several years, the earth's temperature is rising. The problem remains in deciding what if anything we can do about it.

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toraja, megalithic burial ceremony. 2003.

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