ROME – As the Vatican’s special year dedicated to papal eco-encyclical Laudato Si’ comes to a close, they have launched a seven-year action plan designed to encourage strategic actors to commit to achieving total sustainability with Pope Francis’s environmental advocacy as a guide.
They never give up, these Jesuits.
In a video message last week, Pope Francis called the action plan, called the “Laudato Si’ Action Platform,” a journey “that will see our communities committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology.” Doubling down on his greenmanship, the pope said:
“For a long time now, this house that hosts us suffers as a result of wounds that we cause by our predatory attitude, which makes us feel that we are masters of the planet and its resources, and authorizes us to make irresponsible use of the goods God has given us,” the pope said, arguing that this attitude has caused an “ecological crisis without precedent.”
The coronavirus pandemic, he said, has not only highlighted the damage done to the planet, but it has also disproportionately impacted the poor, illustrating that “everything is interconnected and interdependent and that our health is not separated from the health of the environment in which we live.”
“We need a new ecological approach,” he said, and called for an integral human ecology “that involves not only environmental questions but also mankind in his entirety” and which is “capable of listening to the cry of the poor and of being leaven for a new society.”
Never let a crisis go to waste. Use it to gain even more power over earth’s people. And keep doing it.
Pope Francis said humanity has a duty to future generations to overcome selfishness, indifference, and “irresponsible” habits, asking faithful to respect creation and “inaugurate a lifestyle and a society that is finally eco-sustainable.” In other words, “How can I seize this opportunity to seize more power?”
He also outlined seven different goals for the action plan based on Laudato Si’, which he said were “the response to the cry of the Earth, the response to the cry of the poor, the ecological economy, the adoption of a simple way of life, ecological education, ecological spirituality and community engagement.”
Simpler way of life. Like driving less. Like working less. Like taking more time off. Maybe a whole day..?? That would fit in nicely with his “seven plan” to take 1/7 of the week off for rest.
Do it for mother. Earth, that is. Do it for Papa. The Pope that is. Do it to show you are a good person (like wearing a mask). Do it for your brother, especially your big brother. You want to be moral don’t you?
The appeal of post-Christian secular religion for many people—whether rooted in environmentalism or other belief systems—is that they have become skeptical of institutional Christianity but seek the comfort, certainty, and direction that religion can provide in their daily lives.
Environmentalism offers a fully secular version of all the characteristics of more traditional transcendent belief systems: the need to avoid disaster by turning away from our sinful ways and by following a path of righteousness leading to harmony between man and nature.
The pope seems to prefer the failed and discredited approach of statism, centered on United Nations efforts like the 2030 agenda (an agenda blindly supported by Ganoune Diop and others).
He foresees the need for a global bureaucracy of unprecedented size and power, a technocracy on steroids.. In this context, he endorses the Earth Charter, the brainchild of Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev, two of the world’s leading advocates of statist government agendas.
It will be cold comfort to future generations when their leaders finally realize how badly they have been fooled and how deeply they have embedded global warming hysteria into their cultural and governing norms, from tax policy to education programs. They will wonder, along with MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen, why:
“the early twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.”
As Nigel Lawson from Britain put it “Global warming orthodoxy is not merely irrational. It is wicked.” As sensible eschatology puts it, this radical environmentalist hysteria is taking the world to a place they won’t like (Romans 1:25).
What do you get when the organization outlined in Revelation 19:2-3 claims to be caring about the earth? You get bamboozled. If you believe it.
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