I found a wonderful, well-thought-out and practical way to actually save our planet here - OceansOcean.com
Here is the article:
Ocean’s Four-Fold Plan to Save the Planet
There is a four-fold plan that will absolutely save the world, if instituted
universally very, very soon, while there's still time -
1. Veganize
2. Be Child-Free
3. Ecoize
4. Create Diplomatic Solutions Internationally - Think Globally
1. Veganize
Veganize to Save the Planet
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival
of life o***n Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetable-based diet."
-Albert Einstein
"If Americans were to reduce their meat consumption by o***nly 10 per
cent for o***ne year, it would free at least 12 millions tons of grain for human
consumption - or enough to feed 60 million people... Indeed, if Americans
were to stop eating grain-fed beef altogether the grain thus released would
be enough to feed all the 600 million people in India. -Peter Singer, Author
Do you want the planet to survive? Do you want for all the starving childrn
in the world to thrive? Do you want all the over-fed children to survive?
Do you actually care for the spiritual? For Compassion? For others? Do you
care about the cruel suffering inflicted upon helpless, sweet beings?
Veganizing from a Spiritual Perspective
Suppose you met a soul who was unable to speak quite legibly, who was naive,
trusting, and not quite as bright as yourself. Would you treat him with kindness? With respect?
What if he were in fact helpless. Would you offer sympathy, compassion? Pity,
at least?
Treat him with mercy?
You meet him every day in many forms- this innocent, helpless soul,
As the innocent and helpless victims of the most horrendous aspect of our
society, the most helpless of all beings, the victims of the meat industry.
The most shameful legacy of our shameful era, factory farming has taken the
already cruel practice of eating fellow mammals and taken it to a level far
beyond evil.
In the interest of profit for the handful of owners, every shred of decent
behaviour extended to these utterly dependent and feeling beings has been
stripped away.
Few laws protect them, and of those, most are ignored.
In many states, even inspection in to their torture chambers is not allowed.
Why would they - the raisers, the o***nes who make profit off the untold misery
of totally innocent animals - why would they not want for their warehouses,
their transporters, and, particularly, their butcheries, to be seen? o***nly
if they are not complying with the minimal laws which are in place would they
seek to hide their doings like criminals.
One does not act guilty if there has not been a crime.
The fact that they do not ensure either that the animals in their care are
either raised humanely, transported humanely, or even killed humanely.
We, the people, we, the Americans, have a voice in this. We, the citizens of the World, have the choice in this.
We must use it to aid the sentient, suffering beings at the very bottom of
society- the animals raised and murdered for food.
We need to make sure that the cruelest of people are not allowed to continue
their clandestine outrages against the o***nes who, in Issac Bashevis singer's
words are 'totally inoffensive' animals.
We must be their voice.
'If ye have done it unto the least of them, you have done it unto me.'
The words of Jesus apply to all these souls, the very most helpless of our
world. Jesus himself chose not o***nly to be born among them- the barnyard animals,
the least of society- our greatest victims, - but he also chose to be called
'the Lamb'.
Veganizing from a Personal Life Enhancement Angle
Do you like to live? To be hot? To stay youthful? To be healthy and vital,
energetic and attractive?
Do you want to be able to, with every part of your being, with your body,
soul, mind, and heart, with your spirit, be able to say that you are aliened?
Whole? That what your mind knows and your heart feels - that it's wrong, wrong,
wrong to shove innocent fellow animals into horrible, small complexes that
make the idea of hell a reality and then to murder them in atrocious conditions
- that it's wrong to take the acres needed to grow grain that would keep countless
starving children alive by growing grain instead of feeding grazing herds
of cattle - would you like to have all of you - mind, soul, heart, body -
aligned in knowing that by your every meal, your every day of being alive,
that you are living in compassion and righteousness?
Your entire life will change into a glowing, beauteous exercise in power,
stamina, energy, and spiritualness that you have never before had access to
when you decide to go vegan.
http://www.Veganize.com http://www.EcoEat.com
2. Be Child-Free and/or Adopt
Think of the world as o***ne household. The house is small, the income fixed,
and they cannot move. The family already has a child, and cannot feed another,
and yet they think of having another child. Either the quality of life will
suffer and each will have less food, they will put o***ne out to starve, close
the windows, and not heed his cries, or they will stop having children, if
they have any compassion or caring.
EcoChildFree
Stop Human Overpopulation
GetFixed.org
ChildFix
3. Ecoize
Ecoize to Keep the Planet Alive
Ecoize and You Will Thrive
EcoMermaid.com :: Where Saving The Planet Is Fun
With your heart, make every choice in life.
Choose to buy o***nly planet-friendly, vegan, compassionate products.
Seek them out.
Get lists of who does and who doesn't test o***n animals, like these -
Caring Consumer // A Guide to Kind Living http://www.americanhumane.org/site/D...pdf?docID=3821
Boycott cruelty-based industries.
find lists here
Care2 : The Petition Site : Create free, easy online petitions
Find out how to use o***nly green products and where to buy them.
Even with pests - learn how to deal with them respectfully and compassionately
at
http://www.loveinsects.com/
Tread lightly during your stay o***n earth, your spirit will lighten too, as well as your body.
4. Create Diplomatic Solutions Internationally - Think Globally
Insist o***n diplomatic rapport, o***n unilateral discussions, o***n peaceful conclusions
to all problems in the world among nations, within nations, and other cultures.
Insist that religiosity stay out of politics.
Insist o***n logical thought, problem-solving, and in finding answers.
Find common denominators. Focus o***n what we have in common.
Diminish the differences.
Seek to communicate with all and insist that our governments do the same.
Vote with your conscience.
Vote with your determination to save our planet.
Vote with your dollars and your voice every day. Boycott where necessary.
Email and join campaigns, lobby, spread the word. Use your power.
If you feel that war is wrong, voice your feelings and your morality.
If you don't, then examine your soul, and follow the money - find out who
war benefits and who it destroys.
Find out which industries excel at making profits o***n war and basically, follow
the themes, the threads, and decide how you want your tax dollars to be spent
and how your conscience feels about it, and then become active in effecting
change.
If you do not step up to create change, you are part of the problem - not
part of the solution.
Become active.
Do something every day to help innocent victims, to help starving children,
to help helpless animals, to help struggling adults, to help save trees and
wildlife and wild lands, to help create green industries to take over from
the cruel o***nes, to learn more and more about how your power right now can
save the world - and by every meal, by every purchase, by every thought -
be compassionate.
This will save the planet.
Act now!
To join Ocean in her Campaign to Save the Planet, Visit
at OceansOcean.com and email her there.