World Silent Day’s Emphaty and Solidarity to Japan
TO THE PEOPLE AND NATION OF JAPAN
Trough Consul General of Japan
AN EXPRESSION OF SOLIDARITY EMPATHY from BALI
To the people and nation of Japan,
We are several members of the community in Bali, that are members and supporters of the World Silent Day campaign (www.worldsilentday.org) We express our deepest empathy and solidarity to the people of Japan in this difficult times. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have faced the sufferings due to the Tsunami and concurrent disaster in Japan, including the possible radiation disaster due to accident at the nuclear power plant.
Today, on March 21, we are celebrating the World Silent Day (WSD), as inspired by the Hindu Bali New year of Nyepi. On this day, we ask people to conduct activities that can help to reduce green house gases, as also a way to tackle climate change. We ask people to do this for four hours from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. The Balinese have conducted their silent day for hundreds of year for 24 hours. That 24 hours of silence can save a minimum of 20,000 tons of CO2 equivalent. We can imagine if the entire world goes on a silent journey for one day.
On this day, WSD members took time to offer prayers and sympathy in silence for the victims of Tsunami and their families and the safety of the Japanese people. We offer prayers that leaders of the world would open up their inspiration about the the need to change the way we do things, so as to reduce disasters, including the nuclear disasters. We ask that leaders of the world be given energy of inspiring thoughts about the need to save the earth in order to save humanity. After all we have only one Mother Earth.
We hope that the disaster in Japan would become an inspiration to create change. We hope also that the Japanese people and Nation would be able to join us in the journey into silence as one of the easy effort to help create that change. Let us let Mother Earth breathe easier without pollution and radiation. Together, in solidarity, we can make that happen.
We hope the victims of the Japan disaster can become leaders to lead us to a better world.
Please convey our message to the people and nation of Japan.
Denpasar, 21 March 2011
In Silence
the WSD members
(38 names and Signature) 
