THE LOVEWISDOM MESSAGE ON PARADISE
BUILDING
Pressing issues 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.
Please read the following excerpt
from the foreword to the
book, to
see why reforestation and dietary
changes, which
is the message of Paradise Building are the keys to
resolving
the
problems confronting us.
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
click here to
purchase
