BUDA MAITREYA DATA VI: Buddha Ecology

The Earth, our home," says Maitreya, "is burning with the insatiable fire of greed, of overconsumption, with the fire of overpopulation, it burns with oil, with gas and coal... it burns with deforestation and with intensive large-scale agriculture... its effects are an alarming increase in extreme weather events: droughts and floods, record low and high temperatures, raging forest fires, increased intensity and frequency of typhoons, accelerated melting of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers, slowing of the Atlantic Ocean conveyor belt.... Everything burns with deadly heat waves, desertification, increased hurricanes and a sustained rise in sea level that will affect all island countries and coastal cities... Drinking water and food supplies will be in short supply... Everything burns with millions of environmental refugees on the rise, which will cause social, political, economic and even military conflicts".