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汙染海洋水源，破壞自然生態環境，殘踏了動物的生存權利，肆意屠殺動物作肉食…….，都是做成人類今天面臨幾乎近于末日的兩大嚴重威脅！
Polluting ocean water, damaging the natural ecology of the environment, savagely trampling upon animal rights of survival, arbitrarily slaughtering animals for food, etc,…have brought about these two deeply serious threats to humanity that seem to be the Apacolypse.
而其中，肆意屠殺動物作肉食的殺業，更是罪魁禍首。以下略作分述：
And among these, the karma of killing by wantonly slaughtering animals for food is the stalwart crime of a disaster. I will explain in detail below:
(一)全球暖化的危機
1. The crisis of global warming
全球暖化帶來的是溫室效應，溫室效應會帶來氣候異常變化，引發水災、旱災、海嘯、暴風、地震等種種問題。
Global warming brings about the greenhouse effect and the greenhouse effect brings about abnormal climate change, causing floods, droughts, tsunamis, storms, earthquakes and other problems.
曾經登上南極、北極及地球高極的珠穆朗瑪峰的香港環保先鋒李樂詩著有“叁極宣言”。
The Hong Kong Environmental pioneer, Joyce, Lee Lok See, author of The Poles Declaration had been to the antarctic, north-pole and the Everest mountain range – the highest peaks in the world.
她接受香港佛教雜志“溫暖人間”(注一)訪問時說：
When the Hong Kong Buddhist journal, Buddhist Compassion (1) interviewed her, she said,
“如果南、北極的冰全部溶化，全球海洋的水位都會上升，沿岸的城市會被淹沒。
“If the ice of the southern and northern poles should melt, ocean water levels would rise flooding all coastal cities…
中國的雪山溶化，低窪盤地如四川等便會有水災，大水過後，繼之是旱災。”
“Melting of the Himalaya snow in China would flood low-lying basin areas such as Sichuan Province, etc. and after the deluge, drought would follow…
“海水被煮滾，海床發生變化，地底版塊震蕩，結果就是海嘯、地震，2004 年的南亞海嘯就是這樣來的。”
“Ocean water heats up, [and the weight on the] seabeds changes, so that the tectonic plates tremble, resulting in tsunamis and earthquakes. The South Asian Tsunami of 2004 came about by a condition like this…
“科學家發現北極已有北極熊屍體，它們是因爲全球暖化，固定冰減少，以至遊來遊去都不著岸，筋疲力盡而死；
“Scientists have already discovered the corpses of polar bears in the north pole. Global warming has caused the ice shelfs to decrease to the extent that the bears can find no place [to rest upon] as they swim, causing them to die of exhaustion;..
“南極也有大量企鵝死亡……。”
“In the antarctic a huge number of penquins have died…..”
地球暖化，北極冰山溶化，海嘯地震肆虐，都是地球對人類發出的警告！
Global warming, the melting of the north pole glaciers , tsunamis and earthquakes are all reaking havoc and are our planet”s warnings to us.
令到地球暖化的溫室效應氣體又從那裏發生的呢？
And where are the global warming greenhouse effect gases coming from
溫室效應氣體包括了甲烷排放物及二氧化碳等。
The greenhouse gases include methane emissions and CO2, etc.
這些氣體數量太多了，遠超過地球所能負荷，把地球表面厚厚的包圍起來，讓太陽射入的熱量無法正常舒放回太空，做成全求暖化及産生溫室效應。
The amount of these gases is so high that it has already surpassed the earths load limit, thickly enveloping the surface of the earth and making the heat projected by the sun unable to be released normally back into outer space, causing global warming and the greenhouse effect.
燃燒石油的交通工具，如飛機、汽車、火車、卡車、船，爲地球排出大量的二氧化碳，但根據聯合國食物和農業組織(UN FAO)報告說：
Modes of transportation that burn fossil fuels such as airplanes, cars, trains, trucks, and ships, discharges a great amount of CO2 into the earth”s atmosphere, but according to a report by the United Nations FAO,
畜牧業産生的溫室效應氣體，大過全球的小客車、卡車、火車、船、飛機的排放量總合。
Greenhouse gases produced by the farm animal industry greatly surpass the total amount of the world”s transportation emissions.
由此可知，現今工廠式的畜牧業才是製造溫室效應氣體的大黑手！
From this we can see that modern industrialized farming is really the most evil hand behind the manufacture of greenhouse gases!
根據美國出版的“我爲什麼成爲素食者”(注二)一書的作者佩美拉
韋斯引述資料說：
Pamela Rice, the author of 101 Reasons Why I”m a Vegetarian (2)published in the USA, stated,
“人類造成的甲烷排放物，大約百分之二十二是經由全球二十四億的反刍動物噴出，此外畜牧業也招致了每年産生八千萬噸的二氧化碳。”
“Approximately 22% of the methane gas emmissions produced by human kind is expelled…
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