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- H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Sunday 19 June 2011--The Pure Devotees are Saviors of the World--and--How to Get the Normal People to Chant?
- ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Sunday Feast with Devamrita Swami and Bada Hari das
- H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Guru Maharaja In New Orleans, USA, june 2011.
- ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Donuts for Prabhupada!
- Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Revolution Begins Within
- Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Kirtan by 2011-06-16
- Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group
- Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: see how your life becomes improved
- ISKCON News.com: Brisbane Temple Plans Continue Despite Locals’ Protests
- ISKCON News.com: Temple Profile: Mexico City
- ISKCON News.com: Tulasi Harrison: Delivering Little Souls
- Dandavats.com: A Day With Krishna’s Cows In Vraja
- Dandavats.com: Hari Nama in Kashmir
- Dandavats.com: Jagannath Snan yatra festival @ ISKCON Baroda
- Dandavats.com: All Glories To the Bhagavad Gita As It Is
- Dandavats.com: The Book Distributor Preacher wins always
- Dandavats.com: Now online: “Gita changes” for chapter six
- ISKCON News.com: Watch New Vrindaban's 24 Hour Kirtan Live!
- H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Friday, June 17th, 2011
- H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Thursday, June 16th, 2011
- H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
- ISKCON Toronto, Canada: 24-Hour Kirtan LIVE!!!
- ISKCON News.com: Gita Utsava Program in Guntur, South India
- New Vrindavan, USA: 24 Hour Kirtan 2011 Live!
- Subhavilasa das ACBSP, Toronto, CA: Go Krishna Go!
- Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: More Fun Than Chasing An Ambulance: 24 Hour Kirtan T -12 Hours
- New Vrndavan, USA: Internet Shutdown In Temple In Order to Broadcast 24 Hour Kirtan
- Japa Group: The Importance Of Good Association
- H.H. Sivarama Swami: Ramapriya dasa asks
- New Vrndavan, USA: TENTATIVE SCHEDULE 24-HOUR KIRTAN 2011
- Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: A Warming Planet Struggles To Feed Itself
- Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Mood Board : Freshly Minted Kitchen
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H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Sunday 19 June 2011--The Pure Devotees are Saviors of the World--and--How to Get the Normal People to Chant?
bb A daily broadcast of the Ultimate Self Realization Course Sunday 19 June 2011 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger image.) Our Mission: To help everyone awaken their original Krishna consciousness, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. Such a global awakening will, in one stroke, solve all the problems of the world society bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and prosperity for all. May that day, which the world so desperately needs, come very soon. We request you to participate in this mission by reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and assisting us in spreading this science all over the world. Dedicated with love to ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and to you, our dear readers. Today's Thought: The Pure Devotees are Saviors of the World Uploaded from Kuala, Lumpur The pure devotees of Krishna, those devotees who are completely free from all material desires, very strongly desire that all the suffering souls in this material existence can become happy by being reinstated in their original constitutional positions as the eternal servants of Lord Krishna. Therefore they fully dedicate their lives for awakening the sleeping souls of this age, and they take all risks for this purpose, sometimes facing great difficulties such as being publicly beaten or crucified. Such dedicated pure devotees are known as the saviors of the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Srila Prabhupada Chants with the Hippies Golden Gate Park, San Francisco--1967 http://www.backtohome.com/images/Prabhupada/chanting-with-hippies.jpg Answers According to the Vedic Version: Question: How to Get the Normal People to Chant? Dear Srila Gurudeva, How can we get the normal people to chant Hare Krishna? L.I. Answer: They Already Are The normal people are already chanting Hare Krishna. It's the abnormal people who somehow or other need to be induced to chant Hare Krishna. If you become completely pure in your chanting, you will able to convince the entire world to chant Hare Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Transcendental Resources: Receive the Special Blessings of Krishna Now you too can render the greatest service to the suffering humanity and attract the all-auspicious blessings of Lord Sri Krishna upon yourself and your family by assisting our mission. Lectures and Kirtans in Audio and Video: Link to High Definition Videos Link to Over 1,000 Lecture Audios Lecture-Travel Schedule for 2011 http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com/schedule Have Questions or Need Further Guidance? Check out the resources at: http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com or write Sankarshan Das Adhikari at: sda@backtohome.com Get your copy today of the world's greatest self-realization guide book, Bhagavad-gita As It Is available at:http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com/store Know someone who could benefit from this? Forward it to them. Searchable archives of all of course material: http://www.sda-archives.com Receive Thought for the Day as an RSS feed: http://www.backtohome.com/rss.htm Unsubscribe or change your email address Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Daily_Thought Sankarshan Das Adhikari on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SDASITE Thought for the Day on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ultimate.Self.Realization Copyright 2005-2011 by Ultimate Self Realization.Com Distribution of this material is encouraged. Simply we request you to acknowledge where it is coming from with a link to our sign up page: http://www.backtohome.com Our records indicate that at requested to be enrolled to receive e-mails from the Ultimate Self Realization Course at: This request was made on: From the following IP address:
•ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Sunday Feast with Devamrita Swami and Bada Hari das
Toronto's Hare Krishna Centre is excited to welcome HH Devamrita Swami to our vibrant community. Devamrita Swami will be joining us for our weekly Sunday "Love" Feast celebrations. For the past twenty-six years, Devamrita Swami has traveled worldwide, presenting the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness. Currently he is based in Australia and New Zealand, and frequently travels to India and the Orient on preaching missions.
•H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Guru Maharaja In New Orleans, USA, june 2011.
Sent by His Grace Sribash Prabhu For more pictures click here
•ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Donuts for Prabhupada!
•Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Revolution Begins Within
When water becomes ice, it is in an artificial state. The natural state of water, it’s dharma, is liquid. Similarly in our natural condition of life, we are blissful and happy, but when our mind is uncontrolled we experience dissatisfaction. The powerful mind can make a heaven out of hell, and hell out of heaven.
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•Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Kirtan by 2011-06-16
•Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group
•Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: see how your life becomes improved
We have got the science of God, the education of science of God, Srimad-Bhagavatam. So these books are meant for human society, and if you take advantage of the knowledge imparted in this book and if you chant this Hare Krsna mantra, you will see how your life becomes improved, how you become full of knowledge, full of bliss, and how you advance in your eternal life.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture Engagement -- Montreal, June 15, 1968
•ISKCON News.com: Brisbane Temple Plans Continue Despite Locals’ Protests
 | Locals and environmentalists in Brisbane, Australia have raised strong objections about the City Council’s recent approval to build a new ISKCON temple on land they say used to be protected. |
•ISKCON News.com: Temple Profile: Mexico City
 | ISKCON’s Mexico City temple is one of the society’s treasures, as the current building is the same one that ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada sent his disciple Chitsukhananda to open in 1971. Prabhupada also visited it himself on two occasions, and the room in which he stayed has been kept as a shrine to this day. |
•ISKCON News.com: Tulasi Harrison: Delivering Little Souls
 | Tulasi Harrison was only seven years old—still practically a baby herself—when she decided she wanted to become a midwife and help bring new life into the world. Her little brother was fortunate enough to be delivered by a devotee midwife. Present for the birth, Tulasi watched with fascination as her mother’s friend Ramadevi brought her brother into the world. |
•Dandavats.com: A Day With Krishna’s Cows In Vraja
By Parsada dasi
During kartik last year, a very dear friend of mine, Padma visted Sri Vrindavan Dham, and a sincere devotee for many years. She arrived a day after the much celebrated Gopastami festival. As we made our way to the ISKCON goshala that afternoon, I described to her our Gopastami festival, where our Srimati Radharani is dressed as the cowherd boy Subal and at this time Her devotees relish the sweet darshan of Her lotus feet , the only time in the year accept Radhastami
•Dandavats.com: Hari Nama in Kashmir
By Deena Bandhu dasa
Our Prison Preaching Incharge, Jankinath Prabhu, decided to take out a Traveling Sankirtan Party for the summer. In their travels they reached Prabhupada Ashram in Uddhampur in Jummu, where HH Navayogendra Maharaja made very comfortable arrangements for their stay. From there they decided to go to Srinagar in Kashmir where they had the address of a disciple of HH Gopal Krishna Maharaja Arjun Shyam Prabhu, who would provide them nice facilities for staying and preaching
•Dandavats.com: Jagannath Snan yatra festival @ ISKCON Baroda
By Basu Ghosh Das
Water, mixed with a small quantity of water from the sacred Ganges (Ganga) river was kept in clay pots for the bathing ceremony. Here at ISKCON Baroda, the Deities were taken out of the temple by the pujaris accompanied by a kirtan party and placed in the mandap, decorated with flowers, at around 10 AM. At first there were not many members of the public to be seen in a specially erected "pandal" (tent), in front of the temple
•Dandavats.com: All Glories To the Bhagavad Gita As It Is
By Premanjana Dasa
The Bhagavad Gita however should not be taken just as a 'Holy Book' of the Hindus or 'A Gem in Eastern Philosophy' or an 'Indian Ideology'.This Great scripture is the MANUAL for every living entity and does not promote a sectarian outlook
•Dandavats.com: The Book Distributor Preacher wins always
Yadavendra Das: There is a bookstore that used to buy our books regularly. But about 18 months ago, there was a disturbance in the relationship because they not only neglected to pay the invoice on time but also initially ignored our repeated reminders
•Dandavats.com: Now online: “Gita changes” for chapter six
Kaisori (dasi) (BBT): Why so few revisions for this chapter? And why the change for the title? See for yourself in the annotated scans for chapter six, now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes
•ISKCON News.com: Watch New Vrindaban's 24 Hour Kirtan Live!
•H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Friday, June 17th, 2011
Rap It Up
Scarburough Ontario 
I don't follow the rap music scene so when one of our younger monks, Marshal, tells me that he sold a book "Perfection of Yoga" to muscian K'NAAN in downtown Toronto I most definatly do not know who he is talking about. Marshal was in ecstatsy though.
The closest I ever get to rapping is when Prema Dwani prayers are uttered, after a chanting session. I can't help myself but to spice up these long reverential word of glory with a tiny bit of my own pop rhythm. When I take the lead it is received with openess and welcome. Only one traditionalist spoke quietly with me in India last spring, expressing doubt. My mild defence was "In my country people rap. Also our guru Srila Prabhupada worte that one can sing as is done in one's country."
I incorporated a small toned down verison of the rap at a recent home visit where a family had three deaths occur. One after the other. While attending the funeral of a brother in the U.K, the couple was informed of an uncle's perishing and on the day of attending his funeral another close relative passed away.
Had the couple not had a strong sense of spirituality they might have fallen into depression. I felt the obligation to be with them for awhile in the company of others from our ashram. The chant and the subsquent subdued. Prema Dwani rap rendition pacified the family. Now tonight a birthday was honoured in Scarburough. Young Hari das turned 18 and a big gathering came to give support to a fine young guy. I was curious if Haridas knows Alice Cooper's "I'm 18" with lyrics "and I know what I want." But Alice is from another era. Haridas is likely more familiar with K'NAAN.
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•H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Get Behind the Festival
Mississuaga Ontario
I encourage all families with the summer's celebration of the Ratha Yatra, the Festival of Chariots to give support. Each night for several days now I have gone out fund raising for the local event, hosted also as Festival of India. It is out of the range of a monk to do so. Monks in our order are enthusiastic to promote such a terrific culture-changing effects. Running now for a creeping up the 40th year (next year in Toronto) the highlight of feasting, chanting, dancing, and other feel good activities make it a unique attraction. There's no meat, fish, or eggs in the food. You find no drugs or liquor. It's family fun. Sex has it's place, but not here. No innuendos even.
Yogis especially in the bhakti (devotion) category converge. Karma-free food and crowd pleasing drama and dance acts fill the stage. And you get your walking in. In many cities a procession that accompanies temple-like chariots go a distance of anywhere from 5km/3miles to 10km/6mi.
You sweat, you work, you play, dance, and sing, all in the spirit of devotion. And the superstar to turn up is someone by the name of Jaganath, a massive wooden iconic personality representing Krishna. He rocks! And so do many more people at their east meets west flowered ahimsal(non violence) killer kirtan program.
I'm personally crazy about the Ratha Yatra/ Festival of Chariots. It's my summer hightlight.
As I was saying, each night I return on a trail at night after having fund raised and friend raised. Myself and these other stalwart devotees set out for Mississauga to see potential donors. We meet with generous hearts.
So from a monk who is making an appeal, for assistance I ask you now to support your local Ratha Yatras it is an enriching experience for thsoe who attend. You can also take home a book and do yourself that favour to read, apply and make spiritual progress.
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•H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
H.I.T Hang In There!
Toronto Ontario
It had been a message going out there loud and clear for the last two days. There was something weird in the air, the stars, maybe the eclipse. I had been receiving emails, phone calls, and office visits over varying tough issues that compelled victims to cop out, quit, take to the forest (as in Arjuna) and just give up. Whatever the issue was people wanted to resign. And I was saying "No way!"
No one retires from responsibility. I realized when I was talking to the four or so threatened-to-quit folks, whether to do with a relationship, some routine task, or to do with the mission. I was talking to myself.
Everyone goes through periods where you want to throw in the towel, where you feel like saying "Govinda I shall not fight." We know it's wrong, to retreat from the battlefield of duty but you just want to say, it anyway. Maybe someone will hear your frustration, empathize, and encourage. In that sense it's not so harmful to voice the agony. You realize then that you have friends who will say, "Listen, take a break, chill out, get some rest, chant Hare Krishna and with a little time you'll be alright and back at the job."
I did mention to one person (and here's where I really had to be talking to me) "We can't be spineless without guts and heart." We all visit this type of dungeon but we also need to walk out courageously into the fight. Those who know the Gita know what I am talking about when I say "Look, you have a choice, be "Arjuna before" or "Ajuna After." The "After" effect of hearing the speaker of the Gita speaks tons of truth to us all. We got the strength.
So I've been suggestion the H.I.T approach. Hang in there. Let reason and time get you through. Then move on.
11 Km
•ISKCON Toronto, Canada: 24-Hour Kirtan LIVE!!!
The 24-Hour Kirtan (24HK) is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. Held in the foothills of West Virginia at the Krishna farm community of New Vrindaban, the festival offers an opportunity to chant shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most gifted Mantra Music artists in the world. Enjoy the live broadcast HERE!
•ISKCON News.com: Gita Utsava Program in Guntur, South India
 | From Friday 3rd to 7th of June 2011, ISKCON held a Hare Krishna Utsava in Guntur city`s local town hall. The goal of the program was to educate people about the importance of the Bhagavad-gita, as well as to inform the public about ISKCON Kondaveedu`s Spiritual Heritage Revival project. |
•New Vrindavan, USA: 24 Hour Kirtan 2011 Live!
24 Hour Kirtan Live from New Vrindaban
•Subhavilasa das ACBSP, Toronto, CA: Go Krishna Go!
Of course devotees realize that people are in illusion as they "worship" paid employees to chase a black puck around the ice. On top of that most of the players are neither from Vancouver and many not even from Canada but they waste their precious time, money and energy to glorify these false gods as they are glued to TV sets or spending hundreds of dollars on tickets. However, devotees are doing their duty to bring harinam sankirtan to the streets so these fortunate souls can hear the name of Krishna and the ultimate chant...Hare Krishna / Hare Krishna / Krishna Krishna / Hare Hare / Hare Rama / Hare Rama / Rama Rama / Hare Hare.
So these pictures popped up in the Vancouver Province...a popular newspaper in one of Canada's biggest cities. The caption is as they appear with the picture.
•Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: More Fun Than Chasing An Ambulance: 24 Hour Kirtan T -12 Hours
Last night in the cool of the evening I was picking strawberries. I have found that if I don’t pick them at night that I will lose some to slugs, those slimy nocturnal destroyers of garden dreams. Fortunately they only eat the fully ripe. I was also losing some to raccoons but I recently completed an electric fence addition to my deer/rabbit/groundhog fence and (knock on wood) it seems to be holding so far though I know the critters are circling circling circling and probing and if there is a weak spot they will find it.
It was a nice evening, quiet except for the virtuoso concert being performed by our local mockingbird and the distant noise of traffic from Route 250 that when absorbed in gardening activities fades into imperceptibility.
What penetrated my meditation was the sound of multiple sirens heading south from the Limestone Fire House on 250. That is not that uncommon, but what I can perceive is when they turn down unto our ridge — instead of fading in volume as they pass our ridge it maintains it. I was trying to focus on my picking but as they turned the corner by Tejo’s, about a quarter mile away, I couldn’t restrain myself and walked out to the state road that runs by my house.
I was expecting either an ambulance indicating some medical emergency or car accident or a fire truck. I was surprised to see a white pickup truck with racks and tools in the back but with a siren and flashing lights go by. It didn’t say Limestone Fire on it. Then a similar vehicle went by and this time I thought I read the word “Gas” on it, which could have been my fears of a gas well explosion on the Snyder farm next to us where the new well has been drilled manipulating my imagination.
Normally when sirens go by I just wait and then start calling folks up the ridge to find out what happened, but I heard a fourth siren so I felt a compulsion to follow this one. I backed out my driveway and into the lane leading to Balabhadra’s and waited facing head out.
This was another ambulance that slowed down, pulled into my driveway, and turned around going back in the direction it came from. This was puzzling to me and I thought maybe it had turned out to be false alarm but it kept its siren on so then I thought maybe they had been given bad directions.
I was about to get back to picking strawberries when I heard still another siren coming out the ridge so I waited. This time it was a police car, driving under the speed limit but still all lights falshing and sirens. This time I was unable to restrain myself and started out to follow it. After I got to Tom Bock’s turn, the white pickup trucks and the first ambulance passed me going the ofter direction.
I was relieved nothing bad had happened on the ridge and since by this time I well on my way to the temple I decided to continue and check out what was happening. As I pulled in and parked I could hear there was chanting in the temple so I went in.
A middle aged Indian woman was rocking the house with a powerful voice belting out a traditional ISKCON kirtan. My physical energies ebb and flow over time, and usually by this time of the day I am pinned to the couch flat on my back with fatigue, but after listening for a bit I felt the soft silk ropes let down by Radharani circle my wrists and pull my hands up over my head. The vibration of the music (voice, mdrdanga, karatalas, harmonium and saxophone) traveled through the floor and started pushing up on the bottoms of my feet and before I knew it I was dancing.
Then I caught the wave and I could have been thirty again– I was in the flow and on top of my game and I was carried away where physically I normally can’t go, both in terms of physical exertion in regards to individual moves and to the duration of time I was able to continue.
The 24 Hour Kirtan was 12 hours away from starting but if that was all I am able to participate — knowing that any dance could be my last — I would die with a smile on my lips.
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•New Vrndavan, USA: Internet Shutdown In Temple In Order to Broadcast 24 Hour Kirtan
We will shut down internet services for the devotees in the temple from Friday night to Sunday afternoon to felicitate uninterrupted broadcast
of 24 Hour Kirtan Live on newvrindaban.com.
Please contact Shyam Pandey if you need internet for extreme urgent purposes.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Thank You
Jaya Krsna Das / Shyam Pandey
•Japa Group: The Importance Of Good Association
After hearing the recent seminar from Bhurijan dasa, it got me thinking about the importance of good association. When we want to get serious about our Japa, we need to get serious about our association and try to chant with those who are serious or who want to be serious.
The remedy is the association of the Bhagavatas. There are two types of Bhagavatas, namely the book Bhagavata and the devotee Bhagavata. Both the Bhagavatas are competent remedies, and both of them or either of them can be good enough to eliminate the obstacles.
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.18 purport
•H.H. Sivarama Swami: Ramapriya dasa asks
“If a disciple stops chanting and following devotional life, ie breaks all the the 4 regulative principles, does the initiating Spiritual Master get a reaction for this?”
•New Vrndavan, USA: TENTATIVE SCHEDULE 24-HOUR KIRTAN 2011
June 18 (all times are EDT)
8:00 AM Morning Class: HH Bhakti Charu Swami
11:00 AM Bhakti Charu Swami 1hr
12:00 PM Agnideva Prabhu 2hrs
2:00 PM Amala Kirtan 1hr
3:00 PM Acyuta 1hr
4:00 PM Ramdas 1hr
5:00 PM Rupanuga 1/2 hr
5:30 PM Rasa Caitanya 1/2 hr
6:00 PM Pariksit 1/2 hr
6:30 PM Param and Gaura 1hr
7:30 PM Thakur 1hr
8:30 PM Kishori Yatra 1hr
9:30 PM Prema Hara (Kesavacarya & Kamaniya) 1 hr
10:30 PM Jagi 1hr
11:30 PM Jahnavi 45 mins
June 19
12:15 AM Kalpavrksa 1 hr
1:15 AM Ananta 1.5 hrs
2:45 AM Gopal Trivedi 1hr
3:45 AM Acyuta 1hr
4:45 AM Gaura Vani 1hr
5:45 AM Ayush 1hr
6:45 AM Abhay (NV) 45 min
7:30 AM Ekendra, Hari Kirtana & Tulasi Priya 1hr
8:30 AM Mahatma Prabhu 45mins
9:15 AM Krishna Das 1 hr
10:15 AM Agnideva Prabhu 1 hr
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•Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: A Warming Planet Struggles To Feed Itself
Victor Valenzuela selects wheat plants for breeding at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico. More Photos »
CIUDAD OBREGÓN, Mexico — The dun wheat field spreading out at Ravi P. Singh’s feet offered a possible clue to human destiny. Baked by a desert sun and deliberately starved of water, the plants were parched and nearly dead.
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Dr. Singh, a wheat breeder, grabbed seed heads that should have been plump with the staff of life. His practiced fingers found empty husks.
“You’re not going to feed the people with that,” he said.
But then, over in Plot 88, his eyes settled on a healthier plant, one that had managed to thrive in spite of the drought, producing plump kernels of wheat. “This is beautiful!” he shouted as wheat beards rustled in the wind.
Hope in a stalk of grain: It is a hope the world needs these days, for the great agricultural system that feeds the human race is in trouble.
The rapid growth in farm output that defined the late 20th century has slowed to the point that it is failing to keep up with the demand for food, driven by population increases and rising affluence in once-poor countries.
Consumption of the four staples that supply most human calories — wheat, rice, corn and soybeans — has outstripped production for much of the past decade, drawing once-large stockpiles down to worrisome levels. The imbalance between supply and demand has resulted in two huge spikes in international grain prices since 2007, with some grains more than doubling in cost.
Those price jumps, though felt only moderately in the West, have worsened hunger for tens of millions of poor people, destabilizing politics in scores of countries, from Mexico to Uzbekistan to Yemen. The Haitian government was ousted in 2008 amid food riots, and anger over high prices has played a role in the recent Arab uprisings.
Now, the latest scientific research suggests that a previously discounted factor is helping to destabilize the food system: climate change.
Many of the failed harvests of the past decade were a consequence of weather disasters, like floods in the United States, drought in Australia and blistering heat waves in Europe and Russia. Scientists believe some, though not all, of those events were caused or worsened by human-induced global warming.
Temperatures are rising rapidly during the growing season in some of the most important agricultural countries, and a paper published several weeks ago found that this had shaved several percentage points off potential yields, adding to the price gyrations.
For nearly two decades, scientists had predicted that climate change would be relatively manageable for agriculture, suggesting that even under worst-case assumptions, it would probably take until 2080 for food prices to double.
In part, they were counting on a counterintuitive ace in the hole: that rising carbon dioxide levels, the primary contributor to global warming, would act as a powerful plant fertilizer and offset many of the ill effects of climate change.
Until a few years ago, these assumptions went largely unchallenged. But lately, the destabilization of the food system and the soaring prices have rattled many leading scientists.
“The success of agriculture has been astounding,” said Cynthia Rosenzweig, a researcher at NASA who helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture. “But I think there’s starting to be premonitions that it may not continue forever.”
•Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Mood Board : Freshly Minted Kitchen
Another Saturday, Another Mood Board! As you can see, I am getting skilled over here. Check. It. Out.
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•Gouranga TV: Indradyumna Swami and BB Govinda Swami – Hare Krishna Kirtan – Vrindavan – Kartik 2009
Indradyumna Swami and BB Govinda Swami – Hare Krishna Kirtan – Vrindavan – Kartik 2009
•Sita-pati dasa, AU: Canberra 24 hour kirtan live stream
Currently at the Canberra 24 hour kirtan with Krishnapada, Param Satya, and Prahlad.
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