Christian D. Port

“If six degrees centigrade of global warming takes place, 95% of species will die out, including Homo sapiens. Mass extinction has already happened five times and this is the sixth. According to the Buddhist tradition there is no birth and no death—after extinction things will appear in other forms. So you have to breathe very deeply in order to acknowledge the fact that we humans may disappear from this Earth in just one hundred years. You have to learn how to accept that hard fact, without being overwhelmed by despair. That is why we have to learn to touch eternity in the present moment, with our in-breath and out-breath.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth