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Kurangi Makan Daging Dapat Hapuskan Kelaparan Dunia

Batam, (Analisa) Pakar lingkungan dari Inggris Tony Deep mengatakan jika setiap orang mengurangi makan daging 20 persen, maka akan mampu menghapuskan kelaparan di dunia. "Kalau saja Anda mengurangi makan daging, maka tidak akan ada lagi kelaparan di dunia," kata dia di sela-sela Kongres Vegetarian Asia ke-4 di Batam, Sabtu. Ia mengatakan jika setiap orang mengurangi memakan daging dan menggantinya dengan makanan tumbuhan, maka akan tersedia lebih banyak makanan di bumi. Daging, kata dia, diambil dari peternakan. Sebuah kandang hewan membutuhkan banyak ruang, yang bila dimanfaatkan sebagai kebun, akan menghasilkan lebih banyak makanan. Hewan, sebelum dikonsumsi, juga memakan tumbuhan, yang sebenarnya dapat dikonsumsi manusia. "Itulah makanya, jika manusia mengonsumsi tumbuhan dan menjadi vegetarian, maka tidak ada lagi kelaparan di dunia ini," kata dia. Ia mempercayai mengkonsumsi tumbuh-tumbuhan akan baik untuk kesehatan manusia. Sama baiknya, bahkan lebih baik, ketimbang mengkonsumsi daging. Menurut dia, menghentikan konsumsi daging juga akan berdampak baik bagi lingkungan. Selain Deep, belasan profesor akan mengisi Kongres Vegetarian Asia ke-4, di antaranya peraih Nobel Perdamaian yang juga Ketua Panel Antar pemerintahan soal Perubahan Iklim Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa atau IPPC PBB Rajendra Pachauri dan mantan ilmuwan NASA, Art-Ong Jumsa[i][Sai Organisation]. Sekitar 1.000 peserta dari 14 negara mengikuti Kongres Vegetarian Dunia ke-4 di Batam. Meskipum Kongres Asia, namun beberapa ilmuan Eropa seperti Inggris, Perancis dan Belgia juga turut hadir merumuskan rekomendasi dunia tentang vegetarian. Kongres, dibagi dalam beberapa fokus grup yang membahas berbagai hal yang terkait vegetarian, mulai dari hidup sehat hingga penyelamatan bumi. Kongres Vegetarian Asia Ke-4 dilaksanakan di Novotel Batam, 6-10 November.(Ant)

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Ardi on: Fadel Muhammad dan Isu Perusakan Lingkungan, Perubahan Iklim

Tulisan anak muda [bung Ardi] ini baik dan penting untuk di-ingat oleh Pak Menteri. Mengatur garis pantai lebih dari 80.000km itu tak mudah karena butuh koordinasi dengan daerah terkait serta Polisi Air maupun AL. Nusantara itu negeri maritim bukan negara agraris.


Visi Fadel Muhammad untuk meningkatkan kesejahteran masyarakat pesisir melalui departemen perikanan dan kelautan akan menjadi sebuah retorika yang miskin substansi apabila dia tidak bisa menghadapi dua isu yang berhubungan juga kesejahteraan masyarakat pesisir.

Masalah perusakan lingkungan dan perubahan iklim menjadi salah satu persoalan yang sangat serius di abad ini. Perubahan iklim dan Perusakan lingkungan yang banyak diakibatkan oleh ulah manusia telah memberikan pelajaran yang serius mengenai masa depan umat manusia itu sendiri.

Perubahan iklim yakni meningkatnya kadar karbon dioksida yang diproduksi oleh industri berbahan bakar fosil (migas dan batu bara), dan kendaraan bermotor telah banyak berakibat kepada perubahan tata kehidupan mahluk hidup dan lingkungan.

Setidaknya ada dua fenomena ekstrem terhadap lautan akibat perubahan iklim global yakni kenaikan suhu air laut dan permukaan laut. kenaikan suhu air laut akan mempengaruhi ekosistem terumbu karang yang menjadi tempat fishing ground dan nursery ground. Menurut hasil Penelitian yang dilakukan LIPI secara nasional. Dari luas areal total yang diperkirakan mencapai 85.700 km2, hanya 6% yang kondisinya baik, sementara 31.5% dalam kondisi sedang dan 40% dalam kondisi yang rusak berat. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Puslitbang Perikanan Universitas Bung Hatta sejak tahun 1995, kondisi terumbu karang di perairan Sumatera Barat hampir 80% dalam keadaan rusak berat.

Dan Hasil penelitian Ove Hoegh-gueldberg yang dipublikasikan di jurnal Science edisi Desember 2007, juga meramalkan pemanasan global pada tahun 2050 akan mendesgradasikan 98 persen terumbu karang dan 50 persen biota laut. Oleh karena itu sangatlah tidak mengherankan jika hal ini terus terjadi, maka akan mempengaruhi tingkat kesejahteraan terutama masyarakat nelayan yang secara langsung besentuhan dengan mata pencahariannya, yaitu terjadinya kelangkaan　 hasil tangkapan ikan akibat　 terjadinya kerusakan terumbu karang.

Di samping perubahan iklim, perusakan lingkungan akibat ulah manusia juga memberikan dampak yang serius mengenai persoalan tersebut.Penangkapan ikan dengan cara-cara yang tak bertanggung jawab seperti menggunakan bom sianida, trawl juga memberikan dampak perusakan yang semakin cepat yang pada akhirnya berdampak pada masyarakat pesisir.

Namun jika kita berbicara mengenai isu perubahan iklim maka kita akan berbicara mengenai isu internasional, persolan ini bukan saja menjadi persolan nasional namun telah menjadi persoalan seluruh dunia. Perubahan iklim tidak akan bisa dilepaskan dari pesatnya pembangunan dan majunya peradaban umat manusia terutama dalam bidang industrialisasi yang berbahan bakar fosil.

Dari berbagai penelitian mengenai perubahan iklim Negara-negara maju yang memproduksi barang-barang elektronik, kendaraan bermotor seperti Amerika Serikat, Uni Eropa, China dan India, memberikan dampak yang besar terhadap terjadinya pemanasan global.

Dari sinilah sebetulnya pangkal masalah dan tarikan kepentingan antara Negara-negara maju dan Negara-negara berkembang seperti Indonesia. Pada satu sisi Negara-negara maju akan terus menggenjot industrialisasinya demi menjaga pertumbuhan ekonomi mereka, namun pada sisi yang lain Negara berkembang seperti Indonesia akan merasakan dampak dari perubahan iklim yang sebagian besar diakibatkan oleh aktifitas Negara maju.

Tarikan kepentingan ini dapat kita lihat dari enggannya Negara-negara maju menandatangani emisi penurunan karbon, namun lebih menekankan mekanisme perdagangan karbon yang sarat akan kepentingan Negara maju.

Oleh karena itu,Indonesia dengan rentang garis pantai 81.000 km dan dengan jumlah sekitar 11 juta nelayan yang menangkap ikan di laut seluas 5,8 juta km persegi, akan sangat terjajah dalam bentuk penjajahan ekologi oleh negara-negara maju jika pemerintahan yang baru tidak bisa membuat terobosan berdiplomasi dengan Negara maju.

Sudah sepatutnya kita memberikan perlawanan terhadap mereka, misalnya menolak produk-produk Negara maju yang masuk ke Negara kita. Tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa Negara kita adalah pasar yang potensial bagi Negara maju.

Di samping itu, persoalan perusakan lingkungan laut yang terjadi akibat kita sendiri termasuk nelayan dan industri-industri yang membuang limbahnya kelaut harus segera ditindak. Penegakan hukum bagi penangkapan ikan tak bertanggung jawab sudah selayaknya diberi ganjaran yang tegas, di samping telah merusak lingkungan juga telah mengurangi pendapatan nelayan lainnya secara tidak langsung.

Inilah tantangan bagi pemerintahan yang baru termasuk Menteri Perikanan dan Kelautan,untuk memujudkan konsep pembangunan yang berkelanjutan. Visi Fadel Muhammad untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat pesisir tak akan tercapai apabila tidak ada terobosan yang baru dalam mengurangi kerusakan lingkungan laut Indonesia. Semoga bisa !!!***

Penulis adalah Ketua Permakan (Persadan Mahasiswa Karo Universitas Padjadjaran) 2009-2010

Gubernur Kepri: Sumatera Harus Jadi Satu Kesatuan

Gubernur Kepri: Sumatera Harus Jadi Satu Kesatuan
Medan, (Analisa)

Gubernur Kepulauan Riau (Kepri) H Ismeth Abdullah mengatakan, Sumatra harus menjadi satu kesatuan dalam berbagai bidang, mulai dari bidang ekonomi, pendidikan hingga menjadi satu kesatuan sebagai "center of excellent" (pusat keunggulan).

"Kita harus berpikir Sumatra, jangan lagi berfikir sektoral dan mementingkan provinsi masing-masing," katanya ketika menerima kunjungan jurnalistik wartawan unit Pemprovsu ke Provinsi Kepri dipimpin Kepala Dinas Kominfo Sumut H Eddy Syofian MAP di Batam, Rabu (28/10).

Ismeth Abdullah yang juga Koordinator Forum Gubernur se-Sumatra itu mengaku sangat berharap provinsi-provinsi di Sumatra bersedia berjuang bersama-sama dalam mengejar ketertinggalan dari daerah lain, khususnya dari provinsi-provinsi di Pulau Jawa.

"Kita harus bersedia dan mau berjuang bersama-sama, apalagi dalam kondisi otonomi daerah yang masih setengah hati seperti sekarang ini. Kita harus bangkit dan maju bersama," ujarnya sembari memberikan apresiasi atas kepemimpinan Gubsu Dato’ Seri H Syamsul Arifin SE yang dinilainya punya komitmen tinggi terhadap kemajuan Sumatera.

Menurut dia, APBD se-Sumatra jika dikumpulkan menjadi satu bisa mencapai angka Rp100 triliun, belum lagi jika melihat PDRB-nya. Semua itu merupakan sebuah potensi besar sekaligus kekuatan yang bisa dimanfaatkan untuk maju bersama.

Menurutnya, Provinsi-provinsi di Sumatra juga harus bisa kompak dalam memperjuangkan segala hal, termasuk dalam memperjuangkan bagi hasil di sektor perkebunan.

"Kita jangan berjuang sendiri-sendiri. Kita harus kompak, karena kalau tidak kita akan lemah dan tidak akan digubris," katanya. Dikatakannya, banyak hal yang bisa diperjuangkan bersama. Selain bagi hasil sektor perkebunan, ia juga menunjuk sektor perikanan dan kelautan sebagai sektor yang harus diperjuangkan bersama.

"Di sektor perikanan kita tahu daerah hanya boleh mengeluarkan izin untuk kapal-kapal berukuran maksimal 30 GRT, sementara di atas itu izin hanya boleh dikeluarkan pusat. Ini juga bisa kita perjuangkan bersama," katanya.

Otorita Danau Toba

Ismeth Abdullah juga menyarankan Pemprovsu segera membentuk Badan Otorita Danau Toba guna memaksimalkan upaya pengembangan kawasan wisata terkenal di Sumut tersebut.

"Dulu saya juga pernah menyarankan hal serupa, itu jika Sumut benar-benar ingin mengembangkan sekaligus memaksimalkan potensi Danau Toba," katanya. Menurut mantan Kepala Badan Otorita Batam itu, pembentukan Badan Otorita Danau Toba dapat dilakukan dengan mensinergikan delapan daerah yang berada di sekitar kawasan danau terbesar di Indonesia itu.

Kedelapan kabupaten di kawasan Danau Toba, katanya, harus mampu bersatu dan bersinergi membentuk Badan Otorita Danau Toba. "Dengan keberadaan sebuah otorita di sana saya sangat yakin Danau Toba akan bisa dikembangkan secara maksimal dan jumlah kunjungan wisatawan ke lokasi wisata itu bisa ditingkatkan hingga tiga atau bahkan sampai empat kali lipat dibanding yang sekarang," katanya.(ir)

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Planet-o-my

A planet, according to NASA's definition is first "a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun..." -- so it a body -- in the parlance of human-biology it is similar to a collection of cells and specialist cells(or organs) designed to perform/s specific function. More than that a body is also a whole system accommodating many sub-systems that may and can override other sub-system in need of help or assistance. The behavior of the sub-systems are mainly devoted to stabilize the whole system upon which it rests, the scientific term for this is called 'homeostasis' (Greek for 'state of equilibrium). This quest for stability is critical for any system as it provides conditions favorable for growth/development/progress or similar.

In my view, this systemic understanding is lacking in our education for the last few decades. Mainstream education were and still is placing a lot of importance on the 'part' not the 'whole' resulting in the overrating and overvaluing the opinion of experts and specialists while overlooking and undervaluing the more holistic view of the generalists.

The driver for this inequality originates from the technocentric, interventionist and managerialistic approaches and above all an atomistic (individualistic) Western world-view of the universe. Fortunately this view is fading fast as we now reap the ripe fruit of decades of blatantly ignoring the dire consequences [of adopting] this short-sighted view for our world. Examples of these are manifested in the multiple-crises we are now facing which fused together a range of problems from local to global socio-ecological and economic and political issues. The scope is wide, encompassing the way we deal with the issue of hunger, impoverishment [poverty is is more about power-relations rather than being poor], the wasteful world economy and climate-change - which hopefully will create a united platform for [an ecologically sustainable] and saner ways to conduct on this finite planet.

[From: tanikota tanikota] Guyana is a model of forest protection that could solve the climate crisis

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Deforestation is responsible for almost 20% of the world's carbon emissions ? more than all of the cars, planes, ships, trucks and trains on earth put together.
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Guyana is a model of forest protection that could solve the climate crisis

A Copenhagen deal must enable countries like ours to generate an income by conserving forests rather than cutting them down

Bharrat Jagdeo
Tuesday September 22 2009
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/sep/21/forest-guyana

The UN general assembly this week is going to change the world. This is because quiet conversations in meeting rooms and corridors around the UN complex will shape the world's climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December ? and all of our lives, and those of every generation that follows.

And this is all going to happen because of trees. This week, among the talk of recession and growth, defence and terrorism, economic stimuli and trade sanctions, world leaders will discuss one of the key solutions that we need to focus on to tackle climate change ? the world's forests.

Deforestation is responsible for almost 20% of the world's carbon emissions ? more than all of the cars, planes, ships, trucks and trains on earth put together. On top of this, forests and other biological systems are the only viable only way of actually removing CO2 from the atmosphere. So stopping deforestation is one of the most obvious and immediate solutions to climate change.

The particular solution the UN will discuss centres around a set of ideas called Redd (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) that looks set to be a key pillar of the forthcoming Copenhagen climate agreement. Redd should help to lay to rest one of the greatest mistakes of modern times ? the failure to include a mechanism for protecting forests in the Kyoto protocol.

Redd should be good news for Guyana, because we have a lot of trees, and a bold plan to make these trees the economic generator of our nation by offering their services in removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it for the nations who have been generating the emissions.

In fact, more than three-quarters of our nation is covered with trees, and we have been able to keep it that way while many similar nations have suffered from rampant deforestation. But Redd will only work if the governments of the world provide the money to make conserving forests a viable alternative to cutting them down, and it is essential that the UN delegates realise this.

A recent report estimated that Guyana could generate approximately $500m a year by cutting its forests ? money that is desperately needed for healthcare, education and infrastructure in a poor nation such as ours. But the world needs our forests to prevent climate change ? what should we do?

Since I last came to New York to call for forest conservation a little over a year ago, the world has lost an area of forest the size of my entire country ? more than 15m hectares, with huge impacts on the climate for many years to come. This has not happened out of malice or ignorance, but because most of the world's forested nations have no alternative but to generate income by cutting their forests.

Of course, tackling deforestation is only one issue that the international community needs to address in order to stop climate change. Fundamentally, the Copenhagen agreement must involve commitments to reduce global carbon emissions to keep the temperature rise to at most 2C by 2050.

But forest conservation is an essential part of the solution and, if Guyana's model is adopted for Redd, it will overcome this and put the planet on a new path, where protecting forests is more economically prudent than cutting them down, and where we will have a chance to prevent climate change from defining this century ? and prevent our generation being remembered as the one that failed.

? Bharrat Jagdeo is president of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

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[From: tanikota tanikota] A warming world will make love and war minor concerns

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A warming world will make love and war minor concerns

If documentaries are the new rock and roll, then it's time for the world to face the music about climate change

Franny Armstrong

Friday September 18 2009
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"But didn't Al Gore already make the climate change documentary?" has been a common question over the five years we've been making The Age of Stupid. It never fails to raise a weary smile. Casablanca had already done love, so why bother with Brokeback Mountain? Apocalypse Now did war. What's the point of Three Kings?

Love and war will soon become minor concerns, as the full horrors of climate change begin to unfold.

When I started my first documentary, McLibel, I never for a moment thought it would have any effect on that immovable corporate mountain called McDonald's. I just found the story of two people daring to stand up to the Big Mac enormously inspiring - and felt that others would too. But only 10 years later - thanks also to Fast Food Nation, Jamie's School Dinners and Super Size Me - has there been a sea-change in public awareness about healthy eating. McDonald's UK profits have since collapsed and advertising junk food to children is now banned.

Someone recently called independent cinema documentaries: "the new rock'n'roll". Forget writing books, singing songs, taking photographs, or even building websites. If you have a burning idea you need to communicate, uncensored, with maximum possible emotional punch and a potential audience of tens of millions, a doc's the way to go.

So in my not very humble opinion we need more, not fewer, films about every aspect of the climate crisis and how we might yet solve it. Inconvenient Truth did the science. Fantastic. 11th Hour investigated climate change alongside its non-identical twin, peak oil. No Impact Man gets on to practical solutions from an individual's perspective and The Power of Community does the same at the community level. Our film, The Age of Stupid, focuses on the big moral human stuff.

Which is all good. But even the most powerful film in the history of cinema is never going to change anything if nobody sees it. McLibel eventually managed to amass 25m viewers, with no distribution budget whatsoever and just me on the team. For The Age of Stupid we now have more than 1,000 volunteers working from every corner of the planet and a small (but dwindling) pot of cash. So together we're aiming for ten times McLibel's viewers: 250m.

It kicks off next Monday, September 21 at the Global Premiere in New York. Movie stars, politicians and climate thinkers will arrive at our solar-powered cinema tent by sailing boat, bike, rickshaw, skateboard or low-carbon transport of their choice, before braving the photographers on the green carpet. Following the screening of The Age of Stupid, we will be joined live by scientists on a melting glacier in the Himalayas and in a rainforest in Indonesia. Radiohead's Thom Yorke will wrap the evening with a little live music. All of which will be broadcast live by satellite to 440 theatres across America and then to 52 countries, from Argentina and Austria to Papua New Guinea and Peru.

And if we do reach 250m people, and the majority of them do agree with the film's key thesis - that unless we move very, very fast we will make the planet uninhabitable - then so what? What influence could 250m angry, inspired, motivated citizens possibly have in 2009, the year of the Copenhagen climate summit, when the governments of the world will come together in December to finalise the successor to the Kyoto treaty?

? Franny Armstrong is the director of The Age of Stupid and the founder of the 10:10 climate change campaign. You can buy tickets for The Age of Stupid Global Premiere on Sept 21 - one night only - at www.ageofstupid.net. And you can enter the Guardian's competition to win tickets here.

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Sumatra Deforestation

The Indonesian island of Sumatra is being deforested as fast as almost anywhere in the world. One of the logging companies responsible, PT Lontar Papirup Pulp and Papers, is a subsidiary of Asia Pulp & Paper, itself a subsidiary of the powerful Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas. So it is not easy for journalists to draw attention to this ecological disaster. Cyril Payen, the Southeast Asia correspondent of several French media, investigated illegal logging by PT Lontar Papirup Pulp and Papers, but he and his crew were arrested by company security guards on 10 July 2009 as they were filming trucks being loaded with timber. The company's head of security tried to seize their video cassettes before handing them over to the local police, who continued to hold them until they were freed as a result of protests from the local media. Many international corporations do business with Sinar Mas without a thought for Sumatra's deforestation. Referring to Sinar Mas, Payen told Reporters Without Borders: "They buy journalists or threaten them with lawsuits. Although the Indonesian media are free, they do not do enough reporting on the rampant deforestation that is taking place."

World Bank urges G20 action on global challenges

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