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污染海洋水源，破坏自然生态环境，残踏了动物的生存权利，肆意屠杀动物作肉食…….，都是做成人类今天面临几乎近于末日的两大严重威胁！
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，肆意屠杀动物作肉食的杀业，更是罪魁祸首。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)全球暖化的危机
1. The crisis of global warming
全球暖化带来的是温室效应，温室效应会带来气候异常变化，引发水灾、旱灾、海啸、暴风、地震等种种问题。
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.
曾经登上南极、北极及地球高极的珠穆朗玛峰的香港环保先锋李乐诗著有“三极宣言”。
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.
她接受香港佛教杂志“温暖人间”(注一)访问时说：
When the Hong Kong Buddhist journal, Buddhist Compassion (1) interviewed her, she said,
“如果南、北极的冰全部溶化，全球海洋的水位都会上升，沿岸的城市会被淹没。
“If the ice of the southern and northern poles should melt, ocean water levels would rise flooding all coastal cities…
中国的雪山溶化，低洼盘地如四川等便会有水灾，大水过后，继之是旱灾。”
“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…
“海水被煮滚，海床发生变化，地底版块震荡，结果就是海啸、地震，2004 年的南亚海啸就是这样来的。”
“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…
“科学家发现北极已有北极熊尸体，它们是因为全球暖化，固定冰减少，以至游来游去都不著岸，筋疲力尽而死；
“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;..
“南极也有大量企鹅死亡……。”
“In the antarctic a huge number of penquins have died…..”
地球暖化，北极冰山溶化，海啸地震肆虐，都是地球对人类发出的警告！
Global warming, the melting of the north pole glaciers , tsunamis and earthquakes are all reaking havoc and are our planet”s warnings to us.
令到地球暖化的温室效应气体又从那里发生的呢？
And where are the global warming greenhouse effect gases coming from
温室效应气体包括了甲烷排放物及二氧化碳等。
The greenhouse gases include methane emissions and CO2, etc.
这些气体数量太多了，远超过地球所能负荷，把地球表面厚厚的包围起来，让太阳射入的热量无法正常舒放回太空，做成全求暖化及产生温室效应。
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.
燃烧石油的交通工具，如飞机、汽车、火车、卡车、船，为地球排出大量的二氧化碳，但根据联合国食物和农业组织(UN FAO)报告说：
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,
畜牧业产生的温室效应气体，大过全球的小客车、卡车、火车、船、飞机的排放量总合。
Greenhouse gases produced by the farm animal industry greatly surpass the total amount of the world”s transportation emissions.
由此可知，现今工厂式的畜牧业才是制造温室效应气体的大黑手！
From this we can see that modern industrialized farming is really the most evil hand behind the manufacture of greenhouse gases!
根据美国出版的“我为什么成为素食者”(注二)一书的作者佩美拉
韦斯引述资料说：
Pamela Rice, the author of 101 Reasons Why I”m a Vegetarian (2)published in the USA, stated,
“人类造成的甲烷排放物，大约百分之二十二是经由全球二十四亿的反刍动物喷出，此外畜牧业也招致了每年产生八千万吨的二氧化碳。”
“Approximately 22% of the methane gas emmissions produced by human kind is expelled…
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