[Posted
March 22, 2010]Climate change part and parcel of Kali Yuga
Science can neither counteract nor mitigate the effects of time
New Straits Times Mar 21, 2010
-
Flowers losing scent due to climate change
A rose may stop smelling like a rose. This is the concern of environmentalists as flowers are losing their scent due to climate change and air pollution. And their fragrance may be lost forever.
...Latif said UKM might have offered plausible reasons as to why some pollinators were not spreading flower seeds, a pattern caused by the missing "scent trail" with scent tissues burning easily due to global warming.
"The aroma producing chemical compounds in flowers dry up faster now compared with before."
The only way out, he said, was to genetically modify the flowers so that the effects would not be permanent and the future generation would not be robbed of nature's beauty.
"The act is almost like producing essential oils. Scientists add on certain chemicals for stronger scent."
He said scents in flowers last longer in colder climate as plants can hold on to their essential oils longer.
"The flowers may still have strong scents in colder climate. But locally, we fear this might be lost forever." go to story
Kali Yuga: The New Age
The Worst Things are Already Happening A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
The duration of Kali-yuga is 432,000 years. Out of that, we have passed only 5,000 years. The balance is 427,000 years. And during this time the condition of society will be worse – not better but worse. In the last stage of Kali-yuga there will be no food grains, no milk, no fruits. It will be a very horrible time. People will kill their own children and eat them, just like animals. The last stage of Kali-yuga will be like that. So before coming to that stage, better to take Krishna consciousness and go back to Krishna. That is our program. We don’t wish to wait for the worst things. more
The duration of Kali-yuga is 432,000 years. Out of that, we have passed only 5,000 years. The balance is 427,000 years. And during this time the condition of society will be worse – not better but worse. In the last stage of Kali-yuga there will be no food grains, no milk, no fruits. It will be a very horrible time. People will kill their own children and eat them, just like animals. The last stage of Kali-yuga will be like that. So before coming to that stage, better to take Krishna consciousness and go back to Krishna. That is our program. We don’t wish to wait for the worst things. more
As Kali-yuga progresses...
excerpt from conversation, Stow Lake, San Francisco, Mar 27, 1968
GURU DAS: Is that a qualification, is that part of the age of Kali-yuga? Flowers with no scent?
PRABHUPADA: Yes. Trees will have no fruits. The fruit will have no juice. That is mentioned. Just like in a mango there is a seed. In many fruits there is seed. In Kali-yuga you'll find simply the skin and seed, no pulp. And cloud without rain. These are mentioned [in the Bhagavatam]. What can you do? If the cloud becomes without rain, if the fruit become without pulp, if the paddy becomes without grain, then what you have to eat? You have to eat the grass, the husk, the skin, and the seed. Or kill another man and eat. Just like in Africa, still, they are doing. Cannibals. Killing the grandfather, that is a great ceremony. Do you know that?