Japanese December 4,2007:The First Asia-pacific Water Summit Commemorative lecture |
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he First Asia-pacific Water Summit was held at Beacon Plaza of Beppu city, Oita prefecture Japan from December 1 st through 4th. The prince and prime minister Fukuda joined the summit together with many leaders and heads of Asian countries and NPOs. I joined the lecture as the representative of Oita Group Of Friends
The bunting decorated the building. |
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The security check was very strict. The building was surrounded with so many police,police motorcycles and parole cars. I scarcely arrived at the parking lot with difficulty. This is the entrance. |
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The security check was quite strict just as if I board an
airplane. All the belongings were checked by the detector and I was also body checked. After passing the check, I got an ID card. |
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In the main lobby was an artificial fall decorated
with bamboo bush. It appealed the harmony of Oita nature and water.
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Water-related panels filled the wall. It was sorry that I couldn't look through them due to time limit. | |
Mr. Kazuma Yamane, non-fiction writer, gave an interesting lecture under the theme of "Warming crisis and earth life." He made an enthusiastic lecture using projector that cast serious scenes of melting snow of Himalaya. He insisted that the effect of warming comes down from the height and we have to do something before the serious retaliation attack men. What each of us should do now? |
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The audience turned their ears to his appeal. | |
I also concentrated my attention on his lecture by taking
note. I am really anxious until when creatures can live on earth. |
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Mr. Yamane also referred to his experience of deep diving by
Shinkai 6500, a Japanese deep diving titanium-made sphere vessel. The diameter of the sphere is just two meters accommodating three crews. Mr. Yamane sits left wearing a red suit. |
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So many interesting creatures passed up of the inspection glass. | |
This is the destination, 6500 meter below the ocean surface. The
world is real pitch black, he said. Sun light independent creatures live here such as deep sea prawn and crab. |
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Hot plume wells up with the temperature of 320 degrees C. Around the super-heated plume, many creature live eating plankton. He expected that such deep sea creatures may be used as valuable food source for men. The may rescue the future of our planet earth. | |
The sun light falls on the blue planet and all life can live on. In ancient time most of the sun light was reflected back to the space as infrared beam, but today warming cap (green in the diagram) disturbs the reflection resulting global warming effect. Tis is the mechanism of global warming. |
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Since Industrial Revolution, men obtained a lot of profit. From now
Recycling Revolution must come soon, He concluded.
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Each of us must not live idle. We must do what we can do now. I firmly believed so. |