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May 16

不退烧的地球，还能撑多久？

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药方：节约减碳，避免让地球温度上升2度。（图：星洲日报）

药方：节约减碳，避免让地球温度上升2度。（图：星洲日报）

你能不能想像一个人如果高烧不退会变成怎么样？

这个人尚且吉人天相，脑袋大概也被烧坏了。

如果是你，一定不会想要有一天沦落到这般田地吧？但你又知不知道，其实你的所作所为已经间接让另一个生命体遭受到如此不堪的待遇──而他，就是地球。

全球暖化，已经从一个流行语汇到一个腻死人不偿命的数千万笔google热门新闻搜寻资料；但大部份的马来西亚人还是觉得事不关已，不管外面刮风下雨，室內的冷气还是开到连北极熊都会感冒的程度。政府宣传广告不断在告戒人民勿焚烧垃圾，甚至还鼓励民眾举报，结果大家还是目空一切、守望相助，你只要远离城市，烧芭烧垃圾这种事就好像嘉年华一样永远没有停过；那些觉得电费便宜到以为自己活在非洲部落的人，当然不会把没有用的插头从插座移除，更不用说利用公司的资源时，离开位子两三个小时也不会把电脑关掉的人……你即使不是这样的人，你举起手指指向前方，大概也会指到一囉哩这样的人。

这样的人当然不会只有一个，他们联合起来每天餵地球吃香喝辣焗桑那。高烧不退的地球会发生甚么事呢？他流出的大量汗水，让2006年底的柔佛州发生百年一次的大水灾，让东海岸每年年底都面对水患问题，让一国之都常常一雨成灾；他口乾舌燥，让柔佛州居鑾市区的民眾在农历新年期间体验到前所未有的无水开饭、洗澡窘境，让山林大火时有所闻，让大马引以为傲的棕油出现收成短缺，出口锐减。

雪州水供公司公佈的一项报告指出，说明雪隆和布城因为近日来炎热天气，每人每天平均的用水量达 223公升，比早前的216公升增加了7公升，比起许多国家包括新加坡每人每天157公升的用水量高出许多。地球在还没有渴死之前，还要哀求他吐几口水来解渴，这就是我们对待地球的方式。

地球每年在升温，我们每年却只关灯一次，像办一场追悼会一样点满蜡烛，慢慢欣赏他的凋零。

专家已经作出以下的计算出来，就算全球关灯一年，暖化仍会持续一段时间；如果人类仍死不回改，事情就会变成：

温度上升1度：野生动物濒危，生態机制失去控制（部份濒临灭绝）
温度上升2度：三成动物、植物灭绝，乾旱、饥荒、珊瑚白化，人类面临生存危机
温度上升3度：30%海岸湿地淹没，上亿人无水可用
温度上升4度：非洲低地三角洲每年洪水患
温度上升5度：超过40%动植物灭绝。
温度上升6度：人类和大多数物种灭绝

日积月累，地球现今的处境儼然就是一个已经发高烧的人，我们还把他拖到中午的烈日底下晒日光浴、吃火锅；如果地球有一天真的掛了，我们今天的所作所为，应该可以称作“凌迟”。

星洲日报／副刊‧作者：卓衍豪‧2010.03.28
[source: http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/158927?tid=14]

May 06

癌缠身没钱医‧脊椎骨长瘤单身汉求助

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中年单身汉幸清华因脊椎骨生肿瘤，经常觉得腰椎疼痛。（图：星洲日报）

（霹靂‧怡保）中年单身汉脊椎骨生肿瘤，急需2万令吉动手术，通过星洲日报基金会向大家求助，希望大家帮助他脱离痛苦。

幸清华，49岁，住在霹靂州地摩新村，以前做装水喉和拉电线散工，收入不多。最近一年来因病暂停工作，与大哥住在父亲留下来的组屋。

2005年前列腺有肿瘤

他指出，2005年8月，他因小便出血入院检查，发现前列腺有肿瘤，而动手术把肿瘤切除。

后来，又检查到癌细胞扩散到脊椎，已订在7月7日进入马大医院，并於7月8日动手术割除肿瘤。

5年来饱受病痛折磨

他说，在患病5年来，饱受病痛折磨，尤其是腰椎痛发作时，那股痛楚更有如刺骨般难受，甚至痛得彻夜不眠，十分痛苦。

“通常我要爬起身时，会感到脊椎特别疼痛，希望这一次动了手术后，能一劳永逸解除痛楚。”

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Apr 30

Lincoln and the helpless little creature

By Compassion, Drawing and artwork, Wisdom

Lincoln and the helpless little creature - by CJ

Lincoln and the helpless little creature - by CJ

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”
– Abraham Lincoln

In reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.

Compassion is how a mother’s tender heart quivers at the pain and suffering of her child when the child is sick. A mother is willing to do anything to alleviate her child’s suffering. As with boundless love, we also develop compassion to all beings who suffer pain and despair. A compassionate person cannot possibly be cruel to any being.

Love is the greatest kindness of all is a mother’s boundless, unconditional and protective love for her child. If we can shower a mother’s love on all living beings, our love would be boundless, unconditional and non-discriminatory. It’s boundless because we are reaching out to all beings. It is unconditional because we do not love with conditions attached or expectations of rewards or reciprocation. It is non-discriminatory, and this means it is given to all and not through selective choice or to one more than the other.

If we realize that all beings are subject to same vulnerability and mortality where all of us suffer from pain and eventual death, and all of us also appreciate being loved and cared for, then it makes sense to extend our love to all beings boundlessly, unconditionally and without discrimination. Just as we love our family and friends, let us widen our circle of love and kindness, and extend these feelings of goodwill and caring to encompass all living beings.

by Chan Kay Yein, Ph.D.

Apr 30

Chimpanzee mothers carry their mummified dead infants

By Compassion
The chimpanzees continue to provide care for their deceased infants. (Credit: Oxford University, Dora Biro)

The chimpanzees continue to provide care for their deceased infants. (Credit: Oxford University, Dora Biro)

Recently at Discovery News we told you how chimpanzees confront death. They do so in ways that are very similar to our behavior toward dying friends and relatives.

On the surface, it might at first seem that chimpanzee mothers break from those noted similarities. When their offspring die as infants, the mothers will continue to carry and groom the dead bodies until the mothers are able to gradually let go of them. By that time, the infant’s body has usually mummified.

The behavior likely mirrors, at least to some extent, the biophysical reaction of human mothers when they too lose young sons or daughters. Right after birth, the mother’s body is hormonally, and in many other ways, ready to care for the infant. Even after a baby dies, the physical connection can take time to adjust. This isn’t even taking into account the emotional bond.

Chimpanzees go through this adjustment period in a very literal way, by continuing to provide care for their deceased infants.

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Apr 28

日AV女优苍井空盼为青海做事 微博筹款赈灾

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日本超人气AV女优苍井空

日本AV女优苍井空 (Aoi Sola)

在中国拥有大批粉丝的日本AV女优苍井空，周五(23日)在推特（Twitter）宣布，拟发起为青海灾民筹款的活动，让中国粉丝们大为感动。苍井空说，自从得悉青海发生大地震后，她的心情一直非常难过，希望自己能为青海做点事。

日本知名的AV艺人苍井空，虽然已从AV界退除役，但大家对她之前的「专业」表现，仍是念念不忘；11日苍井空突然开始玩起推特，先是被中国推友眼尖发现后转推，Followers就不断飙升追随。

根据《福州新闻网》报导，26岁苍井空因为注册推特，让整个中文推特族群热血沸腾，不管男女都在讨论苍井空。不过因中国有网路管制，且由於苍井空为知名AV女优，属於情色类内容，无论是推特还是苍井空的新闻，都是禁止浏览。

对於苍井空准备为玉树地震募捐，有中国网民说，「（她）只用日语写了博文，没有更新中文的博客。显然是针对日本人，而不想增加中国粉丝的负担。心思之细腻和善良可见一斑。她还说下一步希望休假一段时间，能为中国地震做些事情……这样好的姑娘，太赞了。」

日本AV女优苍井空 (Aoi Sola)在自己的微博宣布，拟发起为青海灾民筹款的活动，让很多中国粉丝们感动。苍井空说，自从得悉 青海发生大地震后，她的心情一直非常难过，希望自己能为青海做点事。

日本AV女优苍井空 (Aoi Sola)在自己的微博宣布，拟发起为青海灾民筹款的活动，让很多中国粉丝们感动。苍井空说，自从得悉 青海发生大地震后，她的心情一直非常难过，希望自己能为青海做点事。

[source: http://www.nownews.com/2010/04/27/91-2596575.htm]