Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

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A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2008-03-24

Dutch Climate Change Film Reveals Livestock Farming as Major Cause

By Dutch News Group (Originally in English)

The scientific bureau of the Party for the Animals, also known as the Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation, is to release a documentary this spring about climate change called “Meat the Truth.” The foundation wants this movie to be regarded as a sequel to former US Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” While “An Inconvenient Truth” does explain the problems resulting from global warming, it does not mention the biggest cause – livestock farming.

“Meat the Truth” shows clearly that livestock farming for meat and dairy production is a bigger cause of global warming than emissions from all the world’s vehicles combined. Appearing in the movie are renowned Dutch actors, writers and politicians, who also share their views on being vegetarian. Scientific evidence from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is presented as well, with supporting data about the immense effects of livestock farming on our climate and environment.

Some of the facts mentioned in the movie are:
  • The carbon dioxide emissions of a cow for a year are the same as those of driving a car for 70,000 km.

  • A vegetarian driving a Hummer SUV is environmentally friendlier than a meat eater on a bicycle.

  • If people in Holland were to eat no meat for one day per week, the amount of carbon reduction would equal the Dutch government's goal for all households for an entire year.

  • In South America, about 400 million hectares of soya crops are used as cattle feed. If this were to be used for human consumption, only 25 million hectares would be needed to feed the whole world.
Scientists of Vrije University in Amsterdam lent their expertise to the filmmakers in presenting this information. At the end of the movie, the audience is provided with tips on how they can make a difference in addressing climate change.

There is already much worldwide interest in this documentary, which is planned for release in both Dutch and English languages. We wish “Meat the Truth” every success. May it be well received as a valuable contribution to our understanding of why vegetarianism must be included as one of the solutions for saving lives on our beautiful planet.

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