THE LOVEWISDOM MESSAGE ON PARADISE
BUILDING
Our survival is literally challenged
like never before in human history
and we must awaken to the reality now
in order
to avert disaster:
Climate change, hurricanes,
tsunamis, water shortages, famine,
deforestation, desertification, the
terror of war, over-population,
meaningless jobs, poverty,
environmental pollution and health
epidemics.
Please read the following excerpt
from the foreword to the book, to
see why re-forestation and dietary
changes are the key to the climate
problem.
Foreword
Here we present, The Lovewisdom
Message on Paradise Building by Dr.
Johnny Lovewisdom, first published
in 1975, which even after 30 years
is now more than ever a timely
message. “Build Paradise and eat the
fruits thereof” is the call to get
back to paradise.
Every culture has its memory of
paradise, a golden era of peace and
harmony; “With the Hebrews it was
the Garden of Eden, with the Celts,
the lost island of Avalon; with the
Greeks, that wonderful garden on an
island in the Western seas the
Hesperides; with the Persians, the
Haoma-Tree Paradise; with the
Chinese, the garden of the Peach
Tree Goddess...” (Henry Bailey
Stevens).
Mankind has since chosen an
artificial lifestyle, a far cry from
our original paradise way of life.
As a consequence, pressing issues
now threaten the survival of life on
Earth: the terror of war, climate
change, hurricanes, tsunamis, water
shortages, famine, deforestation,
desertification, over-population,
meaningless jobs, poverty,
environmental pollution and health
epidemics.
The world livestock population (cattle,
dairy cows, pigs, goats, lambs and
poultry) now exceeds 21 billion
animals, 3 and a half times the
world’s human population. The
raising of livestock takes up more
than two-thirds of all agricultural
land, and one third of the total
land area according to UN figures.
Virgin rainforests are being cleared
to accomodate this excessive
livestock animal population.
Forests are the greatest carbon
sinks converting CO2 into
carbohydrate sugar, plant fiber and
oxygen and thus are the most
important climate control factor.
Animal farming accounts for 21% of
man-made CO2, emits the greenhouse
gas methane and is the main reason
the tropical rainforests are being
cut down, all to feed people’s
acquired desire for meat, poultry,
dairy and eggs.
According to British physicist Alan
Calverd, global warming could be
controlled if we all stopped eating
meat and became vegetarians. Dr.
Calverd points out that giving up
pork chops, lamb cutlets and chicken
burgers would do more for the
environment than burning less oil
and gas.
Cattle ranching is the number one
cause of deforestation in the
Brazilian Amazon. Cattle ranchers
cut the rainforest because of the
demand for cheap hamburgers in trans-national
fast food restaurants worldwide.
According to the World Watch
Institute magazine (July/August
2004), “In Central America, 40
percent of all the rainforests have
been cleared or burned down in the
last 40 years, mostly for cattle
pasture to feed the export market,
often for U.S. beef burgers.
The human appetite for animal flesh
is a driving force behind virtually
every major category of
environmental damage now threatening
the human future- deforestation,
erosion, fresh water scarcity, air
and water pollution, climate change,
bio-diversity loss, social injustice,
the destabilization of communities,
and the spread of disease.”
THE LOVEWISDOM MESSAGE ON PARADISE
BUILDING
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