Monday, November 20, 2006

Forest Expansion

Many of us realize that global environment is degrading and forest is diminishing. We all know something innovative measures should be taken, but so far we could not see any effective measures that would save the planet. However, I found a really gratifying move that forests in the world are expanding. At first, I could not believe the news, but it seems to be true. The Reverend Masanobu Taniguchi, Vice President of Seicho-No-Ie, introduces this news on his website, quoting International Herald Tribune's article. His website is available only in Japanese.

According to the article by Pekka Kauppi, a professor at University of Helsinki, who leads a team of researchers in Europe, the United States and Asia, it seems possible that we could reverse a global trend that many people thought was irreversible. Yes, since some experts even expect our earth to be skinhead by 2050, the fact that more developed countries had more and denser forests in 2005 than in 1990 or countries like Vietnam and Turkey seemed to have reversed the trend, along with India and China, must encourage people, like us, who are engaged in a movement to a protect global environment or try to lead a life not to deprive from nature.

As I attached solar panels to our roof, I've been more concerned about how environment preservation movements are going on. I believe we have more and more fellows who take care of world's environment and enlightening general public as a position granted. I hope there will come a day when almost all people in the world respect any men and women, animals, plants, foods, resources and others, in other words whole universe, as a manifestation of God's life.

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