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提醒大家,不要提高海平面! Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level

  • Publication Date | June 4, 2014
  • Document Type | Media Statement
  • Programmes | Climate Change
  • Issues | Adaptation, Conservation, Mitigation
  • Tags | IPCC report, Penang, World Environment Day
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SAM & CAP staff seeking support for everyone to raise their voices and not the sea level
SAM & CAP staff seeking support for everyone to raise their voices and not the sea level

明天6月5日是世界环境日。今年的主题是“提醒大家,不要提高海平面!”把注意力集中在小岛和气候变化。据最近发出的政府间气候变化专门委员会第五次评估报告,自1901年以来,地球表面的温度已增加近1°C (全球平均0.89°C),这主要是人类活动的结果。

我们应担心气候变化和海平面升高吗?我国的海岸线有4,800公里长,而海平面升高势将加剧洪水泛滥、大海潮、海岸遭冲蚀和其他危险,因此我们不可不担心。过去几年来,我国经历了更严重、更久和更频的暴风雨、水灾和干旱。

全国沿海脆弱性指数研究(2007年),评估了海平面升高对沿海地区可能造成的破坏。据在柔佛丹绒比艾20年(1986-2006)来收集的数据,海平面每年升高1.3毫米。把这个数据和全球海平面年升10毫米的最坏预测(一世纪后升高1公尺)叠加起来,估计丹绒比艾沿海1,820公顷土地和浮罗交怡真浪海滩的148公顷土地会被淹没。[1]

气候变化是个大问题的信号,说明人类的消费、生产和生活方式不能长久。它明显地表现在使用肮脏和不能更新的能源;破坏森林与天然生态系统;无法长久的农业、渔业和粮食消耗方式;疯狂的发展;惯于短视地消耗和浪费地球资源。

人类活动,尤其是自工业革命就开始的使用化石燃料,使大气的二氧化碳浓度增高。砍伐森林和改变土地使用,也把碳排放到生物圈。要减缓这种情况,我们必须共同努力,限制能源需求量的增长,改善能源使用效率,增加使用可再生能源,减少因改变土地使用带来的排放,如从事低碳和无化学药物的农业。

SAM & CAP staff in support of World Environment Day, 2014

垃圾是全球温室气体排放源头之一,可大加利用,变成减少气候变化的重要措施之一。用垃圾做堆肥是控制排放温室气体的一个重要策略。垃圾再循环,可为工业提供替代材料,制成新产品。这样可减少对纯原材料的需求,而原材料的开采、运输和加工,就是大量排放温室气体的。因此,再循环实际上可减少所有矿业、林业、农业和石油开采的气体排放!

食品是促使气候变化的一个主要因素,因为食品生产、包装、加工和运输所排放的温室气体,占了所有人类产生的温室气体的一半。[2] 化肥、重型机械和其他使用石油的农业技术,排出大量这种气体。重组农业,建立一个新的食品系统、更大的粮食主权系统、小规模农场、着重农业生态和本地市场,可在减少排放方面做出很大的贡献。

沙石是全球开采的最多的固体材料。它们的开采速度快过再生速度。由于我们过度依赖这些材料,使我们多数忽略了开采这些材料对环境的影响。例如,槟城在日落洞、丹绒道光、峇都蛮的填土计划,就需要百万吨沙石。

由于城市发展快速,建了更多路来方便人与物的流动。现在的趋势是越来越多人要拥有汽车,因此交通也是排放温室气体的一个主要来源。飞机、船与国际贸易增多,也是地球增加排放温室气体的主要原因。我们需要多种措施来减少这些气体所造成的影响,如鼓励有效利用能源的汽车工艺,提倡有效的交通和土地使用方式,开发能取代汽油的燃料。

大气层的二氧化碳和其他温室气体,总的来说,一直在增加。将来的气候显然会更热,海平面会升高,全球的降雨方式也会改变,地球上的生态系统将发生变化。仅靠国际高层的条约阻止不了气候变化。

马来西亚自然之友和槟城消费人协会呼吁,各方必须共同努力来减少排放温室气体,一起来克服气候变化问题。我们也必须解决弱势群体的需求,使他们也能应付气候变化的影响。

请为气候的公平大声说话! 


马来西亚自然之友兼
槟城消费人协会主席
莫哈末依里斯局绅


[1] 马来西亚呈联合国气候变化框架公约的《第二次全国信息传播内容》
[2] 《被忘了的环节:粮食与气候变化·谷物2011》(GRAIN 2011)

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