Posted on March 15, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
When we talk about global warming, we are in the habit of only considering the damage that could affect the most developed countries, without considering that there are regions on the planet that are even more concerned with these issues:
In recent years, African countries have been suffering from increasing desertification, which is destroying their environmental resources.
Fortunately, a new project is trying to save these countries: they call it “the great green wall“.
The Great Green Wall is over 8000 km long
The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement with the humble goal of building an 8,000 km long natural wonder across the entire width of Africa.
Already a decade later and around 15% in progress, the initiative is bringing unprecedented life back to the degraded landscapes of Africa, offering food security, jobs and a reason to stay for the millions of people who live on their way.
The wall promises a convincing solution to the many urgent threats to which not only the African continent but the entire world community are exposed – in particular climate change, drought, hunger, conflicts and migration.
Millions of people are working to create the green wonder of the world.
When completed, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure in the world, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Green Wall takes root in the African Sahel region on the southern edge of the Sahara – one of the poorest places on earth.
The Sahel is at the forefront of climate change more than anywhere else on earth, and millions of locals are already facing the devastating effects.
Persistent droughts, food shortages, conflicts over dwindling natural resources and mass migration to Europe are just a few of the many consequences.
Communities from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east are resisting.
Since the initiative was founded in 2007, life has returned to the country and improved food security, jobs and the stability of people’s lives.
The project was an idea as early as 1952 when Richard St. Barbe Baker, an English environmental activist, suggested planting a significant number of trees in Sub-Saharan Africa to curb desertification in Africa.
The idea was reconsidered at the N’Djamena Summit in Chad in 2002 on the occasion of World Day Against Desertification and Drought and was presented and adopted in 2005 by the Saharawi and Sahara Heads of State and Government in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The program involves the development of an extensive green space (approximately 15 km wide and 8,000 km long) by planting millions of acacias, trees that are drought-resistant because their roots attract water.
The Green Wall has been approved, supported and co-financed by the African, Caribbean and Pacific Republic (ACP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Union.
This is a project of enormous importance, not only because it is a concrete fight against climate change, but also because it shows that humanity can still be united and fight for a common cause.
By 2030, the wall wants to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded soil, bind 250 million tons of carbon and create 10 million jobs in rural areas.
Since its launch in 2007, major progress has been made in restoring the fertility of Sahelian lands. Key examples include:
Ethiopia: 15 million hectares of degraded land restored, land tenure security improved
Senegal: 11.4 million trees planted, 25 000 hectares of degraded land restored
Nigeria: 5 million hectares of degraded land restored and 20 000 jobs created
Sudan: 2,000 hectares of land restored
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: about 120 communities involved, a green belt created over more than 2,500 hectares of degraded and drylands, more than two million seeds and seedlings planted from fifty native species of trees.
My comment: I see the GREAT GREEN WALL project as an initiative of optimism, solidarity and determination that captures the zeitgeist of a unique moment and reveals the soul of a new African generation trying to take control of its own destiny.
Future music is not a utopia here, but rather the engine of hopeful people who mercilessly declare war on the destruction of climate change with a green thumb.
Posted on March 14, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
State Department spokesman Lijian Zhao has asked the US authorities to disclose information about the origin of the corona virus.
Beijing even hintedthat the U.S. military might have brought COVID-19 to China.
Zhao pointed to a video on Tuesday in which the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Robert Redfield, apparently reveals that several corona deaths have been reported in the United States that were wrongly classified as flu.
Redfield admitted that the doctors did not have a precise test for the new condition at the time. He did not go into detail about when these misdiagnosed cases first appeared. He only said that “some cases were diagnosed this way”.
The Chinese Department of State spokesman called on the U.S. agency to clarify information about these cases. In addition, he pointed to a military delegation from the United States who traveled to Wuhan for the Military World Games in October 2019.
A little later, the city confirmed the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
The delegation was part of a group of American athletes.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 epidemic was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31, 2019. The origin of the disease has not yet been established.
And I mean…Yes, it can be the military games.
If that’s true, it’s biological warfare.
Consciously and deliberately in order to damage China economically, that has always been “Nero”- Trump’s dream and now the polluter has it himself.
I myself exclude China, it just doesn’t make any sense.
Posted on March 14, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Many meat eaters react irritably to a vegan lifestyle. There is a psychological reason for this: the meat paradox!
This text comes from the “taz.magazin on the weekend”.
To my great joy, the topic of veganism is more topical than ever! More and more people are open to a switch to plant-based nutrition; in Germany alone, almost half a million registered for the veganuary campaign in January, of which one or the other has certainly stayed on. Excellent!
With the popularity, however, the vegan rage of many meat eaters increases, which I also experience in the online comments on this column every now and then.
The most hated are vegans who, for ethical reasons, do without animal products – which is strange considering that a large part of our society would like to see less cruelty in the world. Or?
Not at all, says the American psychology professorHank Rothgerber. Because the reason for this veganophobia is the so-called “meat paradox”.
The cognitive dissonance that meat eaters experience when they have to reconcile their diet and their love of animals. Because when we have two incompatible views in our heads and live one of them, it causes stress.
Now our brain knows a few tricks to protect us from this stress. I experienced that myself.
Previously, the first trick, I was a master at completely ignoring the reality of meat and milk production.
Finally, there were pictures of grinning pigs on my sausage packaging and happy cows wandered over green mountain pastures on my milk cartons.
And, second trick:Sooo much meat, I said to myself, I don’t eat at all. A liver sausage bread for breakfast, spaghetti Bolognese for lunch and the salad with a little steak in the evening – almost half vegetarian.
Stupidly, this mental trickery no longer works if you are directly confronted with a vegan lifestyle. Then the “meat paradox” hits your head again.
You feel condemned, that stresses and makes you angry. And who is to blame for the anger?
These stupid, better eaters, on which you dump your bad feelings.
This is how you resolve the dilemma in your head instead of changing your behavior and reducing meat consumption. I felt the same way.
Today I know that when in doubt it is better to be for something rather than against it.
For the animals.
For the environment.
For social justice.
For delicious vegetable food. Then the spark jumps faster and enables a conversation with each other.
And who knows… maybe there will be a million in Germany in 2021 who will try vegan in January.
And I mean…The favorite excuse of all meat eaters: vitamin b12.
My first thought at the sight of twitching, bleeding pigs with electric tongs or “CO2 anesthetic”, scalding bath, cutting throats etc., is not the lack of vitamin B12 or 6 or 100, but the lack of responsibility and compassion of a society that already knows all of this but a shit cares.
We have ethics and morality. This is the basis of our basic law, from which unfortunately only human animals benefit.
But the nonspeciesist morality command us to avoid suffering, torture and murder of non-human animals, that means the morality command us to stop eating animals.
This morality is the future of a civilized society.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 