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Presentation Two. Climate Justice Based Ecospirituality (JBE). Dedicated to. St. Francis of Assisi His life revolved around Compassion and Conservation. Ecospirituality built on sentimentality Finding Spirit of God in Cosmology

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  1. Presentation Two Climate Justice Based Ecospirituality (JBE)

  2. Dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi His life revolved around Compassion and Conservation

  3. Ecospirituality built on sentimentality Finding Spirit of God in Cosmology It’s a spiritual view of our relationship with earth and universe Religions recommend Justice based ecospirituality built on logic and science Enabled by ecological intelligence Enabled by ecological conscience Justice demands Ecospirituality vs JBE

  4. Ecospirituality Starts with Spirit God is Spirit - Jn 4:2 God the Spirit is enfleshed in creation The Spirit as the green face of God has become in our time the wounded God.

  5. Justice based Expression of the Spirit Spirit = breathes, inhales, exhales, Spirit is life: opposite is death, realms of death; injustice Current process of production, consumption, global market is the maximum organized expressions of the assault against the Spirit.

  6. Wounded Noosphere (Spirit) • External curse to internal curse • human Spirit is crucified • Earth Spirit lives with us in and through the created world, suffers loss and pain

  7. Mother Earth – God’s Habitat • After finding Spirit in Cosmology • our treatment of the earth must automatically change.

  8. Job 32: 8 “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.”

  9. Elihu, the Son of Barchel the Buzite • Elihu symbolizes spirit Noosphere) (Job 32:2) • Elihu claims that God can use suffering to purify the righteous to perfection (A Destructive Creator) (PDR)

  10. Issues or Mysteries? • Justice-based Ecospirituality does not see: Global Warming and Climate Change (PD) as “Big Issues” but as “Mysteries” or Spiritual Crisis

  11. Climate Change is a Spiritual Crisis • This is the moment of Grace • This crisis is about moving toward awareness, enlightenment, perfection, consciousness, complexity, transcendence and transformation • Fossil Record reveals Complexity after every Mass Extinction

  12. Five Mass Extinctions-Climate Change the Culprit

  13. John Muir, 1869 • “Everything in Nature called destruction must be Creation, a change from beauty to beauty.” • Evolution Loves Death – Anne Dillard

  14. Spirit of the Age demands Climate Justice same convictions Same dreams same rationality same feelings. Our generation is ready for Compassion and Conservation.

  15. Populorum Progressio • Paul VI called for the creation of a model of market economy capable of including within its range all peoples and not just the better off. (Compassion) • He called for efforts to build new world in which “all will be able to give and receive, without one group making progress at the expense of the other”. (Conservation)

  16. Market Economy CV 4, 33 • Without internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfill its proper economic function. (Compassion) • The social doctrine of the Church has unceasingly highlighted the importance of commutative justice, distributive justice and social justice for the market economy. (Conservation)

  17. Climate Change to Climate Justice • Capability-Related Justice • Performance-Related Justice • Needs-Related Justice • Distributive Justice • Intergenerational Justice • Participatory Justice • Procedural Justice • Functional Justice • Punitive Justice • Transitional Justice • Restorative Justice • Transformative Justice • On Time Justice

  18. Intergenerational Justice “Integral human development cannot ignore coming generations, but need to be marked by solidarity and inter-generational justice.” CV 4, 48

  19. Spirit of the Age can be grouped into 4 themes Four Spiritualities

  20. Dominion Spiritualityor Justice Manipulated Spirituality Earth is the Source of all Value Humans feel rightfully to exploit nature Subjugating and empowering nature Lynn White Jr – Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis (1967)

  21. 2. Stewardship SpiritualityMan-centered Justice Spirituality Man becomes the Source of All Value humans care for creation, intend to serve our needs wide gap between humans & creation no sense of solidarity with other species.

  22. 3. Creation Centered Spiritualityor Justice for All Spirituality Creation is the source of all Value the emphasis on intrinsic value of nature all life deserve protection recognizes interdependence within web of life Accepts science and other religious beliefs

  23. 4. Deep Ecology Spiritualityor Deep Justice Spirituality According to Arne Naess, every being, whether human, animal or vegetable, has an equal right to live and blossom. Celebrates our Cosmic Roots radical re-visioning of nature revival of asceticism, mysticism

  24. Chief Seattle This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.

  25. Justicia in Mundo, 11 “ … demand for resources and energy by the richer nations, whether capitalist or socialist, and such are the effects of dumping by them in the atmosphere and the sea that irreparable damage would be done to the essential elements of life on earth, such as air and water …”(Justice in the World, 1971)

  26. Noah Spirituality • Save All Life on Earth

  27. Bishop Nicholas Mang Thang of Hakha

  28. An Appeal to Climate Justice Compassion Conservation the Best Investments

  29. Pope Benedict on Climate Justice • “One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use, not abuse, of natural resources.” CV 4, 50 • Climate Justice... is keeping the resources in working order, as well as preventing over-use. • It is not the Use: but the Abuse

  30. Appeal from St. Francis to JBE Not to hurt Not to hurt our humble (the animals) Is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough We have a higher mission To be of service to them whenever they require it

  31. Animals – Commodity or Community? • Chicken, Sheep, Pig, Cow, Fish • They are our older brothers and sisters • They Carry God’s Spark, radiance, Stamp – God found it was Good • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) ‘These sparks, in every soul, which come directly from God, have no end: they are imprinted forever with the stamp of God’s beauty.’

  32. Older Sister Chicken • Kingdom – Animalia • Phylum – Chordata • Subphylum – Vertebrata • Class – Aves • Order – Galliformes • Family – Phasianidae • Genus – Gallus • Species – G. domesticus • Francis – Sister Chicken • Origin – God’s Radiance, God’s Stamp

  33. Older Sister Sheep or Goat • Kingdom – Animalia • Phylum – Chordata • Subphylum – Vertebrata • Class – Mammalia • Order – Artiodactyla • Family – Bovidae • Genus – Capra • Species – C. hircus • Francis – Sister Lamb • Origin – God’s Radiance, God’s Stamp

  34. Older Sister Holy Cow • Kingdom – Animalia • Phylum – Chordata • Subphylum – Vertebrata • Class – Mammalia • Order – Artiodactyla • Family – Bovidae • Genus – Bos • Species – B. taurus • Francis – Brother Cow • Origin – God’s Radiance, God’s Stamp

  35. Older Brother Dirty Pig • Kingdom – Animalia • Phylum – Chordata • Subphylum – Vertebrata • Class – Mammalia • Order – Artiodactyla • Family – Suidae • Genus – Sus • Species – S. domestica • Francis – Brother Pig • Origin – God’s Radiance, God’s Stamp

  36. Oldest Sister Fish • Kingdom – Animalia, insecta • Phylum – Chordata • Subphylum – Vertebrata • Class – Actinopterygii • Order – Tetraodontiformes • Family – Tetraodontidae • Genus – Bos • Species – B.Salmon • Francis – Sister Fish • Origin – God’s Radiance, God’s Stamp

  37. Human Beings • Kingdom – Animalia • Phylum – Chordata • Subphylum – Vertebrata • Class – Mammalia • Order – Primates • Family – Hominoidea • Genus – Homo • Species – H. sapiens • Origin – God’s Radiance, God’s Stamp

  38. Sollicitudo rei Socialis, 34  • One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings, whether living or inanimate, animals, plants, the natural elements, simply as one wishes, according to one sown economic needs. (Compassion) • On the contrary, one must take into account the nature of each being and of its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is precisely the cosmos. (The Social Concern of the Church, 1987) (Conservation)

  39. Man, Imago Dei • Stop digging resources on earth, but start digging human resources • The Hidden resources of Man • The Creator • The Image of God • New Person, Heavenly Person, Royal Person • The compassionate, humble, kind, loving

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