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In Taizé, in November, a group of people gathered - all of them associated with the European Laudato Si' Alliance (ELSiA). They gathered to reflect on what they had in common. They came with a sense of gratitude and an awareness that this sense is bound up with encounter and relationship.
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Invitation to join Laudato si’ Action Platform
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Registrations for the Laudato si’ Action Platform are open. The Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Arturo Sosa, “extends an earnest invitation to all to join the process of the Laudato Si' Action Platform, to deepen our ecological conversion and to take concrete and bold action to address the crisis affecting our common home”. Watch Fr. Arturo Sosa’s message here.
Photo: ASIA News
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Jesuit support for climate activism in Germany
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Jesuit organizations from across the world have released official statements to support young German climate activists who are raising their voices in a peaceful way, asking for climate action. JESC adds its support to German youth who are alerting the world about climate change. Read the statement of the JCSA, the SJES, and the JEO/JCAM.
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Fr. Dr. Jörg Alt SJ, social ethicist and advocacy officer of jesuitenweltweit Germany, supports motorway blockades in Germany from the perspective of a social ethicist. Acts of civil disobedience can be justified if, for example:
- The symbolic message is easy to understand: Disruption by blockade anticipates foreseeable disruptions by climate change which are equally indiscriminate, but more heavy and more frequent.
- The symbolize a clear “Stop!”: We cannot afford any continuation at the present course. Science tells us that there are 4-10 years left to change track before we are irreversibly on track for a world with average temperature 3 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
- Disruptions cost time, climate change costs lives of humans and animals already across the globe. Lives are more precious than time.
- Disruptions do not want to replace other activities of the global Climate Justice Movement, but complement and draw attention to them.
- Disruptions are a means of last resort after other campaigning tools have been tried (demonstrations, petitions, conferences…) but remained inadequate and ineffective.
Jörg Alt participated in a wave of civil disobedience ahead of Christmas 2021, when he stole edible food from waste container and reported himself to the police for theft, intending to highlight the scandal of food-affluence in the global north contrasting growing world hunger in the Global South due to climate change. He is about to conclude work on a social-ethical legitimation of civil disobedience and civil resistance titled “Resist! Against an economy that kills”, to be published in August 2022.
Photo: jesuitenweltweit©
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Climate change and the poor
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Pax Lumina's January 2022 Issue's leading article features "Climate Change and the Poor" by Ecojesuit COP Delegates Ann Marie Brennan and Siji Chacko SJ. The article explores and evaluates the aftermath of COP26 and includes quotes from the Ecojesuit deployment last November at Glasgow. You can download Pax Lumina's January 2022 Issue here.
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Ecojesuit has released "COP26 and Beyond: The Shared Mission of Climate Justice", an statement which provides context and guidance to discern and take up action in 2022 and beyond. The document draws on the learnings from the COP and highlights our thrusts in advocating for climate justice and to deepen our commitment in caring for the Common Home.
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The future lies with youth
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Welcoming a new team member
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This month we welcome Adriana Opromolla to our team. Adriana is JESC's new Senior Policy Officer for Ecology. In her role, she will support JESC in developing policy papers and advocacy strategies, work on the ecology dimension of ELP, engage with Ecojesuit-Europe on various actions, such as eco-awareness campaigns at European level, and help JESC fundraising campaigns around ecology and the youth.
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Climate change conference
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Photo: Loyola University Chicago
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Edmond Grace SJ, Secretary for Ecology at the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC), and Xavier de Bénazé SJ, Laudato Si' Delegate at the French West Europe Province invite you to join the Loyola 2022 Justice and Ecology Congress. |
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Eco-bites is a monthly online newsletter of the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC) on integral ecology.
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