CHAPTER 2 Breathing Oi (Ch'i), Following Doo (Too) Transforming This Violence-Ridden World Heesoon Bai Simon Fraser University Avraham Cohen University of British Columbia Th e Human Presence Today were to choose one word to describe the present state of the natural world, : would be holocaust; we are experiencing an apocalyptic moment on the Humanity's twelve billion hands and six billion mouths are tearing apart e earth piece by piece-and devouring it. Eighty percent of the original for- :- ts of 200 years ago, which covered the earth like a protective and nourishing have been ripped, burned, and torn off; the rivers and streams that course :...'u ough the earth like arteries and veins are disturbed, ruptured, drained, and ?Oisoned; the oceans are so depleted that they cannot sustain the presently :-cmaining and struggling marine life forms; the thick layer of atmosphere pro- :cctively blanketing the entire planet has been thinned, punctured, and poi- the bowels of the earth are being gutted by oil and metal extraction; fresh -\·ater, the earth's vital fluid, has become so scarce through overconsumption :hat this situation may be the trigger that will sta rt a chain reaction toward a 35