Climate Change: The Solution
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, European Retreat, Austria
February 28, 2008 (Originally in English)
 
 

No one wants to do anything. We have a solution but they don’t do it! There is a solution, of only three steps: Be vegetarian, use sustainable energy, and plant trees. How much more simple can it be? But no one does it because not all governments endorse it and there’s no sense of urgency. And in the media, we are the only one or almost the only ones airing it on TV.

We’re also almost the only one that airs so often and cares so much about it and gives so much information about the evidence as well as the solution. We air a big scroll every day. It costs a lot of money to air all these solutions and problems of climate change 10 or 20 minutes at a time. We don’t take any donations and we don’t take any advertising money. We are the only ones who really unconditionally help. For everyone else, it seems like it may be another few centuries until things really start kicking in.

I’m trying so hard and the solution is so simple. If the government and the media jump in and help and spread all this, and say, “It’s really urgent, and everyone must do it,” then we still have time: Two years. Okay, it’s short, but we have time, to keep the planet ‘as is.’ Not as good as before, but as is, and not worse. But they don’t do it.

One Solution: Stop Raising Animals for Meat

We have solutions. Everyone knows the solutions. They are doing some, but it’s not just doing; the government has to really broadcast it on their internet. They have a lot of money, and they can do anything; they’re powerful. I do my best: the flyers, seminars and everything are just for that, just to save the planet. But it’s too slow, just like a little bit here and there. The government has to say something, just like they ban smoking. When it is banned; it’s done. The government could do that. They ban cigarettes, and they’re banned. And they ban drugs, and they’re banned. They’re not legal. The cigarette reduction now also lessens a lot of illness everywhere in the world. People know that. The same with the climate change policy. If they just do what they know is good, then it’s very quick. In no time, we will recover, or we can stop the effects. If we don’t raise any more cattle or animals, then the Earth will be more sustainable, with no more greenhouse gas or methane gas from the animals and no more multiplying all the time. Whatever we have already, we keep it; and no more raising for profit and meat. Then the Earth will recover.

After a while, the cows will be gone the natural way and then all the land will be planted with trees and vegetables again. Because if you raise cattle, even 50 years later you still cannot truly cultivate on that land. It’s been stamped on and is hard and deprived of sustainable quality. They just have to stop meat eating because it’s bad karma also; it’s not just about the methane gas. Every day we air all kinds of warning signs and evidence. My God, what are we talking about all day except this! This is the only important thing right now. First you have to survive, and then you can do anything else you want. But if you don’t survive, if you don’t have the planet, what’s the use? Unless they want to kill their children. If that’s what they decide, what are we going to do? We try our best. Apart from working very hard already, we spread the news; we go out with flyers and everything. We advertise on newspapers from our own pocket. We air it on TV from our own money. We tell everyone we know.

Some do care; they say, “Oh yes!” They’re interested; they want to know, they really care. But maybe they forget afterward, because there is TV to watch, theater to enjoy, husband-and-wife relationship, children, or business and still more money. They don’t seem to know the priority.

Wealth Has No Value When Change
Affects the Whole Planet

There’s a film called “I Am Legend” with Will Smith. The city is besieged with mutated people who are sick and have been transformed into vicious animal-like beings. The main character who is still alive, is the only normal person in the whole city of New York. Everywhere is deserted and just full of mutated, vicious animals and vicious humans. As the main character walks into the bank, the whole floor is covered with money, and then he goes into the bank vault that’s full of gold bars. You just see the truly useless nonsense of making or amassing money. If you see him walking on the stacks of money, my God, it really drives home the message. But people watch it and just think it’s entertainment. Because if they were afraid, they’d have to do something - unless they don’t care whether they die or live; that’s also okay with me. Or, unless they want to kill their children knowingly, which is really gruesome; knowing that your children are going to die by your actions now, and you still let it happen.

So we do what we can do, and at least you’re doing it with your heart. Give the flyers and all that; maybe some people will awaken and maybe those people will affect other people. We just hope. We’re always hoping. Positive thinking is better than negative. So, we just meditate, help people the way we always do and distribute the flyers to awaken whoever can be. Some of them are scared but then you have to do something, not just put the seeds in the Arctic, and save it in case. What’s the use of saving the seeds when there’s poisonous gas all over, and people are all dying and diseased; who’s going to eat them? If we die, no one can eat them. Or even if they save so many, it may be just enough for a few. The wealthy and the able are the ones who can reach it; they’re the ones who will be able to profit from it.

I don’t understand humans. The point is, maybe some of us think that if we have money, we’ll be able to survive, or if we can reach the seeds, we can plant them again, and so on. But who knows, maybe you can’t, whether rich or poor, when disaster strikes. It will be difficult to tell, even if you have money or you’re powerful, if you can survive or not, and even if you survive, for how long. If the whole planet is destroyed or polluted, where do you go with your seeds, with your money and with your power? And, one more thing: If all or most of the poor people die, they are the work force. Who’s going to plant seeds for you? It is the workers, the farmers, the poor people who are cleaning the roads, planting the trees and sowing the seeds. So, I don’t understand the thinking of this world. I know you understand, but then we’re doing our best. We still do the flyers; who knows, it might help. But still, you understand the feeling.

Well, it’s happening everywhere already, or at least they are a little bit panicking now. It seems like all the governments concentrate on it. At least these are some of the topics that are being discussed, and they gather here and there to talk about it recently. They have to do it concretely. Everyone knows by now from the United Nations report that meat eating and animal raising is one of the worst factors, or even the worst factor of climate change, or global warming. But no one talks about it. Everyone talks about new energy, bio-fuels, hybrid cars, compressed air cars, carbon sucking machines, or digging a hole and storing the carbon, as if it will not bust one day. But before that, you have to breathe in already, as if it will not affect you.

Putting Down Meat Is a Key to Human Survival


I don’t understand this. What is so difficult about putting down one piece of meat, and replacing it with one piece of tofu, which is exactly the same, with better nutrition and better for your health, also more economized? How can anyone not sacrifice just a little palate taste? Even if the meat tastes that great, even if they so love the meat, how can they not sacrifice it, just for the sake of everyone’s survival, and their own children? How can they not? Just replace one piece of meat with another piece of tofu; that’s all there is to it. Especially even nowadays we have all kinds of vegetarian meat that tastes so delicious. Even soya, it looks the same. I don’t know if it tastes the same or not, but it tastes good to me. It tastes delicious, even better. But they still cannot put down that piece of meat, no matter if they die tomorrow, or if their children suffer.

It’s not just about dying. It’s the suffering - mental and physical, psychological and emotional - before dying. Because all this gas, it’s already in the air. It affects people a lot. Yet they don’t admit it; they don’t even claim it. But some have already said that it is because of that. Some scientists already do research and say it is because of global warming that people have more mental illness, more internal organ failure and so on. There’s evidence everywhere, but it seems like no one listens or no one cares. Still, we continue to do it. And then if we die, oh well, we die happy. Where else do we go?


It’s fuming everywhere. It’s just that at the moment, it’s not so intense. Then you probably have a headache when you pass by some place, and you don’t know why suddenly the headache comes, or why suddenly your heart hurts or burns. You don’t know why today your liver is no good, so then you take medicine and you forget about it. But it’ll be more and more intense if we don’t do something.

Suppose no one does anything and the planet is kaput. What will you do? Any idea? Suddenly, do you see how many “Time to Act?” Before, we didn’t have them. Now you can look everywhere, and they’re doing something for the environment. I hope they all do it and quick enough. I hope the governments and the media really put their thumb into it. That’s all I hope for, every day. And just ban this, ban that: No meat anymore and then we’re saved. Truly, it’s very simple! Just use the meatless or animal-less diet; use sustainable energy, with limitless sun or wave power; and plant trees. Everyone can plant only a couple of trees, not a lot. And the government, instead of putting money into war, they could just use the money to pay people to plant trees in areas of desert, dry climate or where it’s already damaged, to revive the atmosphere. It’s very simple!

We’d be happy to also go out and plant trees free of charge, and donate our labor anytime; we can, if the government is really behind every one of these programs. We would also be happy to go out and cook vegetarian, to show everyone in all of our houses. We can invite people to come into our house and show them how to cook vegetarian. After a few weeks, they’ll know how, if you can do that first. But what I mean is, if the government and the media are really behind it, they just have to put down that piece of meat. Even if it is a sacrifice, it’s really worth it. It’s really the most noble thing they could do in their whole life. Just put down that piece of meat and replace it with the veggie meat. We have so much food to eat; it’s not that we don’t have a choice. Why don’t they just try it?

Make Every Home a Veg Restaurant

>From now, each of you should be a teacher. Anywhere you go, anyone you meet, you talk about it. You invite them to your house and show them vegetarian cooking. Show it on hand; otherwise if they just see it on TV, it may be different. Use your personal energy and love to show them. We just spread it out and do what we can. Use your time for saving the planet. Show them how to cook vegetarian food.

Every house, I want turned into a veggie restaurant. Show them what you eat. If they don’t know what vegetarian is, they don’t know how to do it. Truly, they don’t know. Even if some people know that vegetarian is good, they don’t know how. They even ask on the internet: “How did you do it?” Truly, some people have never heard of it before. They never thought about it. So we do that. All of you in the world teach them how, every day and every time you can. Invite them at random, as a guest, unconditionally, and show them how. Anyone who smiles at you, talk to them and invite them for coffee in your home: “I live nearby! I didn’t know such a lovely neighbor exists. Wow, what an honor! Let’s go to my house and have a cup of coffee.” And then, from then on.

Start it; I’m not joking. Do something because you’re out there. I do it on Supreme Master TV and in cooking for my dogs. I talk to whomever I can also. But I’m also very busy with the planet things. So do that; be a restaurant owner, or restaurateur. Learn to cook well and learn to show it. With your smile, a stone will melt; and with your food, the heart will melt. There’s nothing to lose. Vegetarian is very cheap; you can always afford to invite someone. And it’s a good investment; it saves the planet. So it’s worth it. You try what you can, through Supreme Master Television, through flyers, through books, through the internet. It influences a lot. But still, that habit dies hard. Just tell them to change the habit, that’s it. Invite whoever you can, show the vegetarian diet and make them feel welcome. It’s like everything else. Put candles and all that. How much does it cost? Not so much. It doesn’t have to be a lot. Make it festive and welcome and homey. Make the food taste good and then they’ll come back for more and you can show them how.

Because truly, they don’t know. I’m telling you the truth. Not many people know how to cook vegetarian. They think vegetarian is just to eat green beans, like string beans, and then they worry they become like a string. Surely many would ask you, “Oh, vegetarian! Can you live on that? Is it nutritious enough that way?” They ask you like that because they don’t know, truly. They don’t research into that, so they’re not used to it.

Ban All Meat for the Good of the World

I hope I live to see the day that the governments really ban meat because it’s also poisonous to people. Not to talk about methane or waste gas, depleting energy or water or medicine, nothing like that. Meat makes everyone sick. Meat is poisonous. Everyone knows that. The people’s leaders have to help protect people.

Suppose you know something is poisonous to your children; will you deliberately give it to them, to kill them? No! So now all the evidence points out that meat is also poisonous and alcohol is bad. Just ban them outright. There’s no more discussion. Poisonous things you don’t give to your people. You don’t allow them to be near your people. And children even have access to alcohol, not to talk about meat. Okay, that’s it. We have to ban meat. We’re banning it now by showing people how to cook and eat vegetarian. We go all out. This is really for survival. You have only two years to change, two years. Four years is when it happens but within two years we have to do something; otherwise, it will happen, do you understand me? (Audience: Yes.) Do you know how long two years is?

Audience: Very fast.

M: Seven hundred something days; that’s it - 104 weeks. With 52 weeks per year, two years is only 104 weeks. 1...0...4...weeks. That’s all we have. Do you understand? Does it sound very long?

Audience: No!

M: It’s short. When you say two years, it might sound long. No! It’s only 700 days, 104 weeks. That’s a very scary number. Okay, we have to do it. We have to take matters into our hands. We do what we can. And if we die, we die, but we have to do something. Make it your mission in life, to inform people about the danger of eating meat, and show them the solution.

Meat is really not good for our planet. Meat is bad. Because meat is the reason, not the people! Not the people, right? They don’t know! Truly they don’t know. They influence each other. And they’re really poor victims of the situation. It’s really, truly like that. You have to do it with love. You have to have big compassion, to sacrifice your time and your energy.

D: There’s an organization called Animal Aid. I got an email from them the other day and they’ve got a system where they train you or you can train yourself, so you can go and speak at schools. They get the schools for you and you can pick the age group of people you talk to. And a brother is thinking of going and doing it with younger children.

M: Yes, we can do that.

D: You can speak about vegetarianism or climate change or anything.

M: Yes, you can volunteer to go to any school, to cook a free meal that day, or bring samples. Or ask whoever wants to come with you to learn vegetarian food, and everyone brings a few carrots.

D: Because the children love the animals and then they start to ask the parents, saying,

“We can’t eat these, they’re beautiful beings.” Yes, children are great.

M: Yes, if we can.

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