〔世界環境日特報〕蔬食抗暖化一一九萬人連署，似象徵地球ＳＯＳ求救訊
清海無上師世界會抗暖化小組繳出漂亮成績單 　　2008年世界環境日的訴求是「踢掉舊習慣」，由蔬食抗暖化行動聯盟所推出的蔬食抗暖化宣言原期望在六月五日世界環境日達百萬人連署的目標，提前達成目標，在環境日前夕6月3 日在NGO會館舉辦成果記者會，為台灣繳出了漂亮的環保成績單。
　　
　　 畜牧業及肉食習慣已為地球帶來的長遠的不良影響，聯合國糧農組織指出：「畜牧業是造成嚴重環境危機三大主要元兇之ㄧ！」畜牧業目前佔用了地球30％的土地，不僅造成全球暖化與生態危機，更造成全球糧食危機與糧價高漲。「強調肉食是當前地球暖化急速惡化的最大主因之一」的蔬食抗暖化宣言推出, 在短短不到一個半月的時間，到目前已有118萬人響應, 願意為地球, 改變自己的習慣, 作以下承諾：
1. 少吃或不吃肉—多採蔬食餐飲及當地食材
2. 以步當車—多走路、騎自行車，取代短程開車；鼓勵共乘；減少不必要交通。
3. 珍惜資源—減少不必要的消費，不使用「用一次即丟」的物品；並支持「低碳能源能源」政策。
4. 告訴身邊的親朋好友們這個重要的訊息

　　成箱的連署書擺在6月3 日在NGO會館的記者會上, 由清海無上師世界會理事長林善國與立委林鴻池、田秋蓳等人一本一本地攤開在記者面前。蔬食抗暖化行動聯盟百萬人連署總執行羅時鴻博士表示,依6月2日午夜截止的統計, 紙本連署人數高達一百一七萬一千四百七十四人(1,171,474人)，目前連同網路連署達119萬人。
　　117萬！這個空前的社運連署成績怎麼來的？羅時鴻表示，保守估計百分之九十的連署是由清海無上師世界會抗暖化小組2218名志工, 利用地球月（地球日到環境日）期間的每個周末假日，到全台各人潮據點，向民眾一個一個解說的成績，平均下來每名志工取得450人的連署。清海無上師世界會抗暖化小組首次環保出擊，漂亮打陣。
　　關懷生命協會秘書長釋傳法說她一開始聽到連署以百萬人為目標，還認為這會不會太困難了？後來聽到連署已破百萬，感到十分振奮。接受訪問時，她特別提到能夠達到百萬以上的連署，清海無上師導師所領導之下的道親朋友的參與，功不可沒。
　　長期關注國際環保運動的綠黨動物支黨部召集人賴芬蘭十分感動，她表示這是懷抱著環保情操與宗教情操人士成功的結合，漂亮的出擊。她強調118萬人的蔬食抗暖化宣言，不僅是台灣的環保盛事，也是國際環保的大事，因為這是草根公民自動自發的減碳行動，不是在任何議定書或碳交易機制下被迫簽的結果。　　羅時鴻表示此次連署，從實際作業中可以歸納出三點特性:
１. 普遍性:簽署人多數都是分佈在大街小巷的不特定連署人,特別要強調的是:連署都非由素食團體或宗教團體內部的連署, 保守估計連署人中約有80%以上原來並非素食,但他們因為了解了地球暖化的訊息,而願意改變自己的習慣來支持及簽署；

２. 廣泛性:簽署人不分年齡、性別、社會各階層、甚至不分國籍人士—例如,連署當中有名人有民意代表有政府首長, 有小學生, 也有原本對環境議題十分陌生的年長阿媽, 其中網路簽署也有許多來自外國與中國大陸的連署；

３. 自發性: 此活動充分展現參與: 有人打專線電話說要連署, 但不會上網,又沒傳真, 而且又很急, 。最後告知他台北愛海藝文廣場地址, 他說要馬上從桃園上到台北連署。也有讀書會及一些不願具名的團體私下發動連署, 前幾天有台中的志工, 急著打電話要傳真!這在在都說明了運動的自發性；

　　中華易經學院研究所秘書長高秀忠，也提到他曾在火車上見到六十幾歲的志工挨著一個一個的座位蒐集簽名，有位媽媽每到周末假日就帶著小孩到動物園，在大太陽下曬得滿紅通，逐一解說找人簽名，下著大雨也沒撤，仍在那裡找人簽，這些故事感動了他從海外回國的朋友，直呼怎麼有人願意為社會這樣付出，也從此看到了台灣的希望、地球的希望。
　　
　　 這次蔬食抗暖化運動的功成推展，的確讓人見識到了精神領袖在環保運動的影響力。長期關愛動物的清海無上師，自2007年起積極關切當前的暖化危機，不斷透過無上師電視台呼籲全球民眾”Go Veg, Be Green（吃素，環保），拒用動物性產品以拯救地球”，其影響力無遠弗屆，雖然她人遠在歐洲，但卻已在亞洲各地（尤其是台灣與韓國）迅速帶起一股蔬食抗暖化的環保風潮。
　　
　　 在這百萬人連署中也有許多指標性人物，包括北、高市長郝龍斌與陳菊，立法院院長王金平，以及前後任環保署長陳重信、沈世宏等。

大愛電視台報導
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世界環境日蔬食抗暖化一一九萬人連署的幕後(苦勞網2008/6/4)
http://www.coolloud.org.tw/node/21782
(素易網2008/6/4)
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百萬人吃素抗暖化(環境資訊中心2008/6/4)
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減碳百萬人連署 蔬食比脫西裝更有效(中廣新聞網2008/6/3) http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080603/1/10hb0.html

一百二十萬民眾連署蔬食抗暖化宣言(中央社2008/6/3) http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080603/5/10iat.html

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環團籲台塑 低價供應蔬食 (聯合晚報2008/6/3) (報紙)
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Janez Drnovsek, the president of Slovenia from 2002 to 2007 who died on Saturday aged 57, experienced an epiphany after being diagnosed with cancer; he left his presidential palace in Ljubljana, dismissed most of his staff and moved with his dog to a mountain cabin near the village of Zaplana, where he grew organic food and baked his own bread.

	Janez Drnovsek receiving the 14th Dalai Lama at Brdo Castle at the start of the latter's visit to Slovenia, July 2002

By then Drnovsek, a former Communist and an economist by background, had been at the centre of Slovene politics for well over a decade, first as prime minister and then as president. A reserved and respected, if somewhat lacklustre, politician, he was best known for his achievement in controlling inflation and moving his country away from the blood-soaked intrigues of the Balkans into the European mainstream.

In 1999 he was diagnosed with cancer and had a kidney removed; but in 2001 he disclosed that his doctors had found further cancerous growths. Subsequently he decided to ditch conventional medicine in favour of veganism and "New Age" therapies. Having cast off the trappings of power, he might be seen wandering in the mountains dressed in Indian clothes, or playing a flute under a laurel-leaf hat of his own devising. Sometimes he would emerge from his hut to greet the trees, clad in a cloak of leaves to express his oneness with nature.

Drnovsek became filled with an earnest desire to bring an end to suffering - be it the plight of the lovelorn or that of the victims of ethnic violence in Darfur. He appealed to his fellow countrymen to join him in embracing the simple life in the hope of averting world catastrophe.

In January 2006 he resigned from his Liberal Democratic Party and formed a group called the Movement for Justice and Development. Its aims were to "raise human consciousness and make the world a better place" and to "restrict the logic of capital and profit and provide a social as well as an environmentally more balanced world". He also wrote a series of books with titles such as The Thoughts of Life and Awareness, Golden Thoughts, and Essence of the World (all 2006), in which he explored his search for inner equilibrium and world harmony. He had recently published another book, Dialogues.

Nothing daunted, the next year he launched a personal initiative to resolve the conflict in Darfur by inviting leaders of the rebel factions and the Sudanese government to a peace conference in Ljubljana. No one came. Meanwhile, in August an envoy whom Drnovsek had personally dispatched to Sudan was sentenced to two years in prison by a Sudanese court after crossing the border from Chad without a visa. It took the intervention of the EU to secure the man's release.

Drnovsek's handling of the affair prompted criticism from Slovenian diplomats, embarrassed at what they described as the amateur nature of his interventions and the damage they did to the country's reputation. In an effort to restrict his activities, the Slovenian government ordered a cut in the presidential budget.

But the affair did nothing to dent Drnovsek's popularity with his people. Indeed, his benign other-worldliness made Drnovsek one of the most popular figures in the country; and his Thoughts on Life and Awareness was second only to The Da Vinci Code on the Slovenian bestseller lists.

Drnovsek remained unapologetic about his peace initiatives, pointing out that conventional diplomacy had fared no better than his own freelance efforts.

Janez Drnovsek was born on May 17 1950 at Celje, Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. After taking a degree and a doctorate in Economics at Ljubljana University he worked for a construction company, then at a bank in his home region of Zasavje. He became fluent in English, French, Spanish and German.

An active member of the Communist Party, Drnovsek spent a year as an economic adviser at the Yugoslav embassy in Cairo and, in 1986, was appointed to the assembly of the Slovenian republic and served as a delegate to the chamber of republics and provinces of the Yugoslav parliament.

In 1989, on the retirement of the Slovenian representative to the collective presidency of Yugoslavia, the Slovenian government, scenting a change in the air, decided to organise elections between two candidates for the position. Drnovsek, a comparative unknown, trounced the government's preferred candidate, Marko Bulc, to become the first elected statesman in Communist Yugoslavia. He served as chairman of the collective presidency in 1989-90 and in 1989 presided over the summit of non-aligned nations in Belgrade.

After Slovenia, along with Croatia, declared its independence in 1991, prompting the intervention of the Yugoslav Federal Army, Drnovsek was the principal negotiator between the Slovene leadership and the leaders of the former Yugoslavia in agreeing the country's independence and the army's withdrawal after a brief 10-day war of secession.

The next year, as president of the newly-formed Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia, he was elected prime minister and, except for a few months in 2000, he continued to serve until 2002, leading his party to victory at the parliamentary elections in 1996 and 2000. After retiring as prime minister he was elected and sworn in as president of the Republic of Slovenia in December 2002.

As prime minister, Drnovsek took Slovenia into the European Union; and he managed to put on a brave face when the American president, George W Bush, then governor of Texas, introduced him as the leader of Slovakia. After his spiritual rebirth, however, he dismayed his government with his attacks on the EU - with his complaints, for instance, that it spent more on cows "than half the population of the world gets".

The Slovenian people, though, took their unconventional president to their hearts. When, late in 2005, a woman surprised him with the revelation that he had a 19-year-old daughter from a relationship they had had in the 1980s, the disclosure only added to his popularity.

Although Drnovsek claimed to be clear of his cancer, after he fainted during a public ceremony in June 2006 some began to express doubts as to whether vegetables and positive thinking really had cured him. But Drnovsek remained unmoved by reports of his imminent demise: "I have reached my inner peace and I am not afraid any more," he declared.

He did not run for a second term as president in elections late last year, and in December he was succeeded by Danilo Turk.

Janez Drnovsek received many honours, including his country's highest state decoration, the Golden Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia.

A divorcé, he is survived by a son and a daughter.