August 31, 1999
Subject: Last feedbacks about the August 11 meditation, some other miscellaneous subjects
and a warning by 4,000 scientists from 100 countries regarding the ongoing mass extinction
of plant and animal species on Earth
Hello everyone
This email contains the last feedbacks received about the August 11 meditation, a
couple feedbacks regarding the Chinese persecution of Ghi Gong practitioners, 2 initiatives
I recommend to your attention, a couple other personal feedbacks -- and again thanks for all your great feedbacks and supporting words for this networking service --
and a sobering analysis by scientists warning humanity of mass extinction of plants
and animals on Earth, something we ought to pay close attention to as we enter the
last stretch before the turn into a new millennium that will show whether we have the collective
spiritual wisdom necessary to overturn a dire ecological mess into a bright future
for all - a feat I believe we can and *will* achieve - see more on this in my response below to Catherine Tilley.
May Peace Prevail on Earth... and Love in every heart
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000
But first some good news...
From: grace <grace@senet.com.au>
Subject: East Timor update
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS!!!
The latest reports are (I updated this sentence - JH) that there was an astounding
90% participation rate to the polling and that THE VIOLENCE HAS STOPPED !!! The
voting has been PEACEFUL!
Please continue to include the people of East Timor in your prayers, so the peace
may continue!
Much love and warm hugs
Grace
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999
From: Joy Wright <joyeagle@uswest.net>
Subject: Personal Update
Hello Jean, I want to thank you for all you have been
sharing, and I in turn have been passing it along to to
others in other states as well as local.
On a personal level, the meditation consisted of one other &
myself. The changes since that time have been, well---
interesting. I FEEL different. Not bad, not good, but
different. Emotions have been running higher, "adjustments"
have had to be made in my relationships, I am more "in your
face" with situations that do not serve "my higher good".
Setting boundaries, not in anger anymore, but certainly
grounded. Seem to be refocusing. Your info has been VERY
useful to understand what is going on too. Thank you
again--Joy
I have a web page I am sending to you to check out. James
Twyman & Greg Braden were here locally last weekend & a
friend attended & gave us this connection for James's new
book and why the info cannot wait for publishing as regard
the energy changes. For instance did you know the pulse of
the earth has gone from 7.8 bpm to 10-11? Increased energy.
Keep it coming, I pass it along and thank you.
Check out this web page:
http://www.worldpuja.org/beloveddisciple/beloved.html
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999
From: Bonnie Talbot <btalbot2@earthlink.net>
Subject: August 11th Report
Jean,
This year was the most fun I have ever had on my birthday (August 11th)! I want to
thank you for coordinating and sharing all the information you did regarding that
day.
The August 11th events were preceded by about a week of higher than usual energy
and very little sleep - the body felt August 11th coming on a very cellular level.
The most incredible experience for the body was actually on the afternoon of August
9th - about 36 hours before the worldwide meditation. In Santa Barbara, a light
worker was sitting with me when this body was flung back onto the couch as flashes
of a former body being dragged through the streets to its death passed before these eyes -
then hundreds of other deaths followed - burnings, stakes through the heart, etc.
There have been many, many lifetimes of being persecuted for my spiritual teachings
and beliefs. Yet, on 8/9/99, they were blown away in 10 minutes and my calling in this
lifetime to do Satsang (spiritual teaching of non-duality/advaita) has been deeply
anchored. No more shadows or lurking beliefs around persecution for speaking Truth
- the
transformation of this ancient belief already speaks to what is happening
cosmically! All that remains is love! In fact, I have started writing a book this
week to share the truth with the world.
The night of August 10th to the morning of the 11th, this body did not sleep at all
until after the morning (3-5 AM) meditation. While most of my neighbors here in
Southern California were sleeping, there was a group meditation at my home of 4 people
and there were 3 other friends meditating at their homes as well. The energy in the house
was buzzing and was so thick it was palpable. There were a lot of flashes of light
and the two times I got up to go to other areas of the house, it felt like I was
walking on a surface other than a solid floor. The gravity also felt affected as I walked
as I could hardly keep my balance. The two hours flew by like it was only 10-15
minutes.
Then at around 12:15 Pacific Time, we started the second meditation with 5 people.
After a couple of hours, we drove as a group of 7 up to the RamaKrishna Monastery
and meditated in their shrine room for an hour around 4 Pacific Time. That evening,
twelve of us celebrated the birth of this body and shared dinner,
laughter, love and light into the wee hours of the morning - the last car to leave
for L.A. left around 1:30 AM and those remaining stayed up until about 4:30 AM on
the 12th.
The high-level energy was buzzing for at least the last 10 days and the shifts
continue to manifest.
In deepest gratitude to the universe for this transformational time . . . and an
incredible birthday!
Pavani
From: "Grover, Virginia M" <Virginia.Grover@PSS.Boeing.com>
Subject: My 8-11-99 meditation:
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999
I meditated during the eclipse and saw wonderful things ahead for us all. The new
energy pouring down on the planet will bring great changes. Discoveries and inventions
that will change all our lives for the better. Events like the recent shooting rampages will become unimaginable. Deliberately harming the environment will not be tolerated
in any degree; companies who refuse to change their ways in this regard will vanish
like smoke upon the wind. The countries that were directly under the light of the eclipse will be most dramatically affected, although the effects will not be immediately
apparent, or perceived as permanent. Mostly it seems to be a general change in attitude
and values. Negative attitudes will be recognized as destructive and become utterly repellant. A great spiritual change will occur in India, transforming their
culture and eliminating much of their poverty. In France, there will be less focus
on protecting the purity of the French culture and more appreciation of and melding
with other cultures. Important medical discoveries about human fertility and contraception
will occur there within the next few years, and spread rapidly; as an eventual result,
abortion will cease to be an issue anywhere. The Vatican initially will not be 'pleased' but will ultimately decide these changes are a result of 'divine inspiration'
- a face-saving way to accept the inevitable. All I got about Germany is that it
would 'mellow out'. In Great Britain, there will be a strong resurgence of Celtic
culture, and nearly-extinct traditions will be widely practiced again. It also seemed
there would some land-loss, as though parts of the British Isles would sink or be
eaten away by the ocean rather more rapidly than usual.
Learning to eat foods only when they are in season and natural to the area where you
live. Incorrect combinations of foods will be shown to be the cause of obesity and
various illnesses. Helping people to change their habits in this regard will be
a minor industry for a while, but mostly for the older generations. Children will adapt
quickly and easily to the revised guidelines, and intuitively recognize that it makes
them feel better, and it will reduce learning problems in younger children.
How will America be affected? Much of the changes will leapfrog over or around agencies
like the FDA and the AMA. Changes at the grass-roots level will transform how communities
cope with their problems; their solutions will be simple, effective and permanent because they embrace and support as opposed to controlling and punishing. Government
as it now is structured will become irrelevant and will restructure and downsize,
becoming a open framework, easily traversed and accessed, its function to facilitate transport and communication between communities, but without interfering with the
wishes of the communities. Transportation itself will change a lot. People will
walk more because the streets will be safer and they will not be commuting as they
are now, certainly not over long distances. Cars will be for the old and infirm, and will
not be allowed to operate if they pollute the environment. The attitude toward sports
will change - participating will be more important than watching - watching will
be more for instruction than amusement. Community gardens will become more popular and
important; cities will show them off with great pride. The most beautiful garden
of all will be on the site of a former prison; it will be created to exorcise the
pain and fear lingering at the site. It will be seen as a cultural triumph, an emblem of
the changes we have wrought.
Ginger rhiannon@halcyon.com
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999
From: omahhung <omahhung@netvigator.com>
Subject: Chinese persecution of Ghi Gong practitioners
Dear Jean,
Hi, this is your friend in Hongkong. I am writing coz i have always suspected
that what Nostradamus referred to...the Mongols..was actually this Fa Lun Gung
thing.
I was in Beijing last week and they are still making a lot out of this. They have
ppl on TV being interviewed, saying how 'bad' the Fa Lun is etc. etc. Most of them
look like poor farmers. They have put together shows on TV, linking Fa Lun with
cults like the American ones where many people were murdered or voluntarily committed suicide.
I truly believe that good will come out of this, if people would just concentrate
on doing it for themselves, and in return affecting the collective, instead of involving
the ego's needs to publicize and preach. Personally, being half Chinese, i do not
understand why people are making a big protest out of this. Chinese are taught to have
low profiles, not to create mountains out of mole hills.
We can always practise at home. The whole point is to have good health, to feel
good about oneself. If everyone did this, every one who has learnt Chi Kung, we
will affect the energy around us, the Chi around us.
Why has this escalated to this level? Why create so much fear? If we really
wanted to do some thing, we can meditate and practise on our own. In numbers we will
succeed more quickly, but alone we can still invoke love and light.
The thing that bugs me most and which has me seriously thinking about leaving
here, is the fact that the Pope was disallowed from coming. To me, this is the
end of any kind of professed freedom that we are supposed to enjoy being a SAR
(Special Administrative Region).
This Fa Lun Gung furor is causing much repercussion.
As a producer of TV commercials, i was gonna be filming a statue of Buddhist
significance for Fung Shui purposes, as a collector's item. The TV censorship
board has told us not to show the "buddha" face, that anything religious is not to
be shown!
This is a first for me, as i have been producing commercials for the past 20 years
for Hongkong and China.
May love prevail on earth, May Peace Prevail on Earth.
summer love lotus (my Chinese name)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999
From: Gene Svetlana Albinder <genesa@best.com>
Subject: Chinese persecution of Ghi Gong practitioners
Hello Jean et al,
As far as the Chinese Government going after the Ghi Gong masters. Well, technically
speaking - I wouldn't be doing that if I were them. That is - if they believe in
such a thing as a Human Soul. For going after Spirit - they make themselves adversaries
of Spirit, thus, making their own demise manifest. This has always surprized me about
the commies; They lack consciousness to such an extent that are willing to crucify
their own children for the sake of maintaining control over system that is implicitely
self-destructive and at this point dilapidated beyond repare.
If somebody ( anybody ) in Chinese Government had a shred of humanity left in them,
they would find it in themselves to wake up in the morning and look up to the skies
- for they are on the display - the sorry and saddening display of a miserable failure
to understand their own temporality, - on display in front of the whole Universe.
Practice of Ghi-Gong is older than anything they can imagine. It is, in a way, the
method of super-human communications. Ghi-Gong works with energy patterns, - the
natural flows of Chi in and out of the human vessel - human body. Advanced practitioners
live in a sort of expanded vortex, - their energy presense 'phase-shifts' ( Thank You,
Dr. Greer ). Another words, - an advanced practitioner affects the field around him
or her-self to the extent that it is felt in the body of the Universal consciousness.
These are truisms to those who have ever taken T'ai-Chi and realized its potential.
The larger picture, however, needs to be taken into consideration when the scale of
involvement reaches the numbers it has reached in China. 30 million people, moving
within the Universal consiousness, being in harmony with that Universal consciousness
_HAVE_ the Love and Blessings of the Universe - and those who go against them, - go against
the Universe as well. To me - it is strange that such obvious things aren't understood
in their proper context.
To be more 'practical' about it, - it is precisely that kind of pressure from the
Government that precipitated Mao's revolution itself. Another words, those communists
that are now suppressing the Spirit, - themselves were that Spirit behind a common
idea once, - and they probably know that it is very difficult to suppress the Spirit. Stalin
and Mao tried - and they never could. I don't see how this isn't obvious. When people
are stripped of all hopes of personal dignity, afforded to them by the society in
which they live, - which has turned out to be the sorry consequence of the communist
(and otherwise) dictatorships, - they have nothing to go back to, - but their own
Spirit, - and those who relate to that Spirit the way they do, - that, technically,
is how Love comes about. When it is Love, - come hell or high water, - people will go through
tortures and imprisonments - but they will carry on its Spirit. This is just the
way it has always been, - and that is the way it always will be.
The strength of Human conviction is in the action of the Spirit. T'ai-Chi has always
been the action of the Spirit. He or she who has ever marveled at the way the trees
and birds are talking in the morning Sun, - or the flight of a butterfly - a creature
of the changing wind, - or the floating of the lotus-flower upon the surface of a lake,
- would understand what I am talking about. To us, - it is the breath of that Spirit,
that determines the quality of our Reality. The way a T'ai-Chi master understands
the world in and around him or her *creates* a natural harmony in the field in and
around him or her. They heal be mere presence. These people, - are national treasures,
- and, indeed - Universal. Why would anyone in the right mind ever persecute them?
That, I suppose, is a puzzle even Lao-Tzu wouldn't be able to explain away. Or, maybe,
he would. He was a wise man, that Master.
Cheers,
Gene.
From: "Katharina Bless" <soma@loxinfo.co.th>
Subject: Re: FWD Alert: Animal poisoning
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999
Dear Jean
I am very happy that this letter about the Animal poisoning spreads out so
well now, we can change the world now, we are going to be strong enough!
Please help us here to promote our first international Congress on "holistic
lifestyle" in Thailand (I had to select very carefully a name that we don't
run into trouble and the Congress will be possible) and Thom Hartmann will
be one of our main speakers about his book "The last hour of ancient sunlight". We
try to educate people here and I will put up a lot of informations about what's going
on in the world, but I have to be "diplomatic" in the topics, specially for this
first congress. I had to learn a lot in Asia (I am here now 7 years and am originally from
Switzerland).
If this congress is a success the energy pattern here will be
changed, the energy field of consciousness will shift here, young people
are quite open but the system of the tradition is quite difficult.
Please help to promote Silver Dove Congress 2000 - see
http://www.ivu.org/silverdove.
We will also host the Light Link conference from network 2012/PAN organized
by Michael Lightweaver before the Congress.
Thank you so much for the great work you are doing by spreading out all this
information and I will also in future forward them to my groups here in
Thailand.
Love and Peace
Katharina Bless
From: Catherine Tilley <tilleycatherine@yahoo.com>
Subject: Global Healing
My name is Catherine Tilley. I am the founder and executive director of
The Institute for Global Healing. The Institute prints a publication
called The Feminine Voice. Currently this publication is providing a
global vehicle, for the sharing of personal experience, so that we may
learn from the richness of our differences, work together to educate
and empower humanity, end global violence, hoplessness and despair and
heal the earth with our feminine touch. Also in production; The Voice
of the Wise Man; The Voice and Wisdom of the Elders; The voice of Our
Children; The Voice of our Teens; The Voice of our Planet.
We are here to support you and the healing light you continue to send
to us all. Send us your information and mission statement, as well as
any information you feel must be shared with the world in order to
expedite the process of global healing.
In order to begin healing globally, we must first have a vision; see
our planet and it peoples as it was intended to be; clearly see the
goal and believe that it can be achieved.
The reason I am contacting you is because we need your help. It is time
to manifest the vision! Empower our natural abilities to create miracles!
Would you please answer and present to your network the following two
questions and ask that they respond to tilleycatherine@yahoo.com
1. In detail, how do you picture a "perfect world", the world at its
best, your greatest desire for ourselves, our children, our global
communities, our planet?
2. What action do you feel is needed in order to "begin" global
healing?
I thank you for your immediate response and I wish you days overflowing
with laughter and magical moments! :)
Catherine Tilley
Institute for Global Healing
8880 Rio San Diego Dr., 8th floor
San Diego, Ca. 92108 USA
Tel (619)286-4503 Fax (619)585-8230
AND MY RESPONSE WAS:
Dear Catherine
First my apology for the one week delay in responding. I have a hard time keeping
up with the continuous inflow of attention and time-demanding requests and information
from an average of 40 to 50 people each day.
Thank you for your information about The Institute for Global Healing and for your
interest in our work. I've just include your email in a forthcoming series of feedbacks.
I would *love* to have time to answer your 2 excellent questions in details but I
doubt I'll find it anytime soon. I guess it is by doing what I've been doing on a regular
basis over the course of the last 20 years that I can best contribute to healing
this world. To me action speaks louder than words. May I also recommend you read
the document Pathways to Unity which I wrote and posted at: http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/Pathways.htm
as it will give you many insights as to how a "perfect world" or what I prefer to
call a "much better world" could come about.
If you could understand French you would also have the option of reading a 30 page
document on the Awakening of Consciousness (L'éveil de la conscience) also posted
on my site.
I've also written in 1986 an ecospiritual novel entitled The Immortal Child which
could prove to be a most interesting read with regard to your search for inspiring
visions of our future - just tell me if you are interested to get it - go at the
bottom of http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/IntroInfo.htm if you want to see what the
cover of The Immortal Child looks like - a picture is worth a thousand words. One
last thing. As I already mentioned in a recent email, most people who have done a
progression (instead of looking in the past as in a guided "regression", people are lead
with an appropriate guided visualization to explore the future of this world) came
back with wonderful visions of a world that is back to its pristine natural virginity,
where humans live harmoniously with each other and all other life forms, their entire
existence being focussed on divine spiritual pursuits. I also happen to believe that's
where we are headed despite all current contradicting evidences.
Looking forward to hear from you again
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000
P.S. May I also suggest you visit this website above and read some of the material
posted to the Earth Rainbow Network emailing list and linked at the bottom of the
first webpage. Check also the Earth Proclamation and the rest of this Millennium
Gathering website.
The Earth Rainbow Network, founded in February 1997, has an extensive list of nearly
1500 people in more than 50 countries sharing information, visions and feedbacks
on a broad range of subjects as a way to expand and deepen global awareness and the
sense of forming a global spiritual community gradually empowering itself to contribute
in shaping the future of this world.
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999
From: Sharon Mullane <blueheron1@earthlink.net>
Subject: Thank You
Dear Jean,
A heartfelt thanks for your e-mail/newsletters. You are providing a
wonderful service to humanity. I always look forward to your e-mails.
They are inspiring, informative and at times a call to action. Through
them, I am experiencing a special connection to the greater spiritual
community on our beautiful planet, Gaia.
Blessings and Peace,
Sharon Mullane
Los Angeles
From: RPeyser@aol.com
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999
Subject: hi Jean, you used my material
Hi Jean,
Thank you for the work you are doing.
I notice you used my material in a recent newsletter, but did not include my
contact information which was at the bottom of my article on Steven Greer.
Would you be willing to include the following information in your next
newsletter?
Randy Peyser, who interviewed Steven Greer, has many articles of profound
interest on her web site, including interviews with: James Twyman, Neale
Donald Walsch, Caroline Myss, Bernie Siegel, James Van Praagh, Dannion
Brinkley, the producers of the movie, "What Dreams May Come," and many, many
more. Go to: http://members.aol.com/rpeyser
Jean, would you please contact me first if you wish to run any of the
interviews on my site in your newsletter? Some haven't been published yet
and those aren't for newsletters until they've first been sold, but many are
available. Just let me know if you'd like to use any of them!
All the best to you.
Sincerely,
Randy Peyser
Note from Jean: I gave a look at some of Randy's interviews tonight and they are a
great read!
From: "steve diamond" <ommm7@rain.org>
Subject: Fw: Scientists warn of mass plant/animal extinctions
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999
Hi Jean -- thought you'd like to see this from Ron Anastasia -- he was at the Earth
Rainbow Network meeting briefly. He's involved with Paolo Soleri and the Arcosanti
project in the desert. Best wishes, Steve
From: Ron Anastasia <Rjon11@aol.com>
Hello Folks,
While I agree that it's important to focus on what's working in the world, I also
think a balanced perspective requires monitoring of potentially serious negative
feedback loops. Ignoring them is like not having pain receptors; we obviously need
their warning signals to alert us to pull our fingers back from hot surfaces, to treat local
infections before they spread, etc.
Warm regards,
Ron Anastasia
HUMANKIND'S GRAVE IMPACTS ON THE NATURAL WORLD
"The current extinction rate is now approaching 1,000 times the background ("normal")
rate and may climb to 10,000 times the background rate during the next century if
present trends continue ..."
More than 4,000 scientists from 100 countries, meeting at the Sixteenth International
Botanical Congress in St. Louis, Missouri in late July, have sounded an urgent warning:
Human activity is gravely impacting the natural world, leading toward a mass extinction of plant and animal species that will rival the greatest extinction events
of geological history.
According to papers issued by Congress participants on August 2, the "human footprint
on Earth" has gravely altered the chemistry, biology and physical structure of the
planet's land and water. Data show that nearly half of the Earth's total land surface has been changed by human activity, and some 50 "dead zones" (areas with little
or no oxygen) have developed in the Earth's coastal waters.
The latest findings, analyzed by Drs. Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University and
Harold A. Mooney and Peter M. Vitousek of Stanford University, show a "disturbing
negative trend in the Earth's ability to maintain the quality of human life."
At the same time, between one-third and two-thirds of all plant and animal species
now living will become extinct during the second half of the next century if current
trends continue, according to a paper released by International Botanical Congress
president Dr. Peter Raven, a world leader in plant conservation.
"Human efforts have been notable for their lack of attention to the living world
that supports us all," said Raven. "In the face of the worldwide extinction crisis,
we should redouble our efforts to learn about life on Earth while it is still relatively
well represented."
Scientists believe there have been five great extinction episodes since life first
appeared on the Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago. In each case, as much as
80 percent of all then-living species were wiped out within a few decades or centuries.
In the most recent case, 65 million years ago, it is believed a giant asteroid slammed
into the Earth, causing one of the greatest of all extinction events including the
disappearance of the dinosaurs.
But, according to Raven, the present extinction episode -- entirely induced by human
activity -- could be similar in scope. The current extinction rate is now approaching
1,000 times the background ("normal") rate and may climb to 10,000 times the background rate during the next century if present trends continue, he said.
Among the chief causes of species extinction is forest loss, particularly the destruction
of tropical forests in South America and Africa. If the world only manages to retain
five percent of tropical forests in protected areas, which will be true within 50 years at present rates of destruction, then one-third to two-thirds of all species
of plants, animals, and other organisms would be lost during the second half of the
next century, the Congress paper said.
Thus far, scientists say, only about 1.6 million organisms out of a conservative
estimate of between seven and 10 million have been identified, and vast numbers of
plants, animals, and other organisms are currently being lost before they've even
been discovered.
Raven noted that only a coordinated international effort could slow the extinction
of the world's plants and animals. Inasmuch as most of the world's threatened animals
are dependent upon forests, he stressed the urgent need to monitor threats to the
world's plantlife. Raven advocates establishing a new coordinating body through the
United Nations or one of its constituent organizations to monitor the status of
plants throughout the world, detecting those most in danger and taking steps to
conserve them.
Dr. Lubchenco, a Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University, emphasized
other factors that show the grave impacts of human activity.
Close to 50 percent of the land surface of the planet has been transformed by humans,
such as filling in wetlands, converting tall grass prairies into cornfields, or
converting forests into urban areas. Humans have more than doubled the amount of
available nitrogen in the environment because of excess fertilizer use and burning of fossil
fuel. The year 1998 was Earth's hottest on record, as human activities continue
to increase the concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in
the atmosphere.
Lubchenco pointed out that while human domination of land masses is clear, the new
data also indicates a dramatic alteration of Earth's oceans. There are now some 50
"dead zones" in the world's coastal areas, she reported. The largest in the Western
Hemisphere is in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus flowing down
the Mississippi River.
"We've long thought of oceans as having an infinite ability to provide food and other
goods and services to humans. But the massive human-wrought changes in our oceans
are impairing their ability to function as we assume they will," stated Lubchenco.
"We're degrading the water, changing our coastlines, filling in our estuaries, and
changing our rivers," she said. "And we're witnessing many signals of the problems
that will result from these changes, including toxic algal blooms, coral bleaching
and sudden disappearance of fish from key fisheries."
The global-scale changes that human beings have set in motion will impair the Earth's
ability to provide a wide range of services to human life, Lubchenco said. For example,
forests, grassland and coral reefs contribute to flood control and climate regulation. Mangroves, estuaries, coral reefs, and kelp forests protect shores from erosion
and provide nursery areas or spawning habitat for economically important species.
Massive changes in the Earth's environment also result in human conflicts across
political boundaries. "Scarce resources such as water or fishing rights lead to battles
between states and nations. Environmental degradation resulting in food shortages
lead to civil unrest and migration into neighboring countries," Lubchenco said. "The dramatic
rise in human population simply exacerbates the problems," she added, noting that
the number of people on Earth has doubled from 3 to 6 billion in less than 40 years.
Lubchenco did see some hope in the fact that "there is an increasing focus on the
part of the private sector, religious groups, and individual citizens to take responsibility
and undertake innovative action.
"As inhabitants of Earth, we need to take stock of these massive changes, understand
their implications, and change our direction," she said. "We are currently inattentive
stewards. It is in our best interests to be more fully engaged in ensuring our own health, prosperity and well-being."
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