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Pope Francis’ Call to Save The Earth From Destruction in Laudato Si’

In the first chapter of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis delivers a message meant to unveil the wrongdoings of society, on both the earth and its own people. His words illustrate the apathetic and destructive actions that have left the earth drowning in filth and the poor marginalized and silenced. In relation to the pollution produced over the last couple centuries, Pope Francis states, “We all know that it is not possible to sustain the present level of consumption in developed countries and wealthier sectors of society, where the habit of wasting and discarding has reached unprecedented levels. The exploitation of the planet has already exceeded acceptable limits and we still have not solved the problem of poverty” (Francis 2015, para. 27). There is a “throw away” culture that Pope Francis discusses which shows the carelessness of those that can afford to mindlessly discard things and draws a parallel to how those that are less fortunate have also been disposed of by the rest of society. The intention in this statement, and others like it within the letter, seems to be that people need to step out of themselves and look outward to understand and try to remedy the damage that has been done.

The second chapter takes the conversation presented in the first chapter and ties it into the religious teachings of the Bible and what God’s intentions were when giving mankind the gift of the earth. Anthropocentrism has become the order of the world as it is currently, and this chapter was meant to dissolve that ideology. Pope Francis bluntly declares, “We are not God. The earth was here before us and it has been given to us” (Francis 2015, para. 67). Mankind has thought of itself as the supreme ruler of the earth and in turn lost sight of the responsibility that we have of caring for and maintaining the gift that was given to us. Losing sight of this has allowed us to justify our lack of preservation of the earth, as we are only made to think of advancing ourselves. This, inherently, leaves all other life on earth to suffer the consequences of our neglect. The diminishing amount of biodiversity that we are experiencing in the vast ecosystems of the earth grimly depicts our disregard for God’s creation beyond mankind.

Another important message delivered in the second chapter was that everything and everyone is woven together. Therefore, caring for your neighbor and nurturing the earth have equal importance, as “everything is connected” (Francis 2015, para. 91). While both relationships are important, Pope Francis states, “A sense of deep communion with the rest of nature cannot be real if our hearts lack tenderness, compassion and concern for our fellow human beings” (Francis 2015, para. 91). Continuing to neglect those that are struggling to survive to attend to nature still leaves us at a deficit. Those duties are both crucial in carrying out God’s plan and upholding the “three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our neighbor, and with the earth itself” (Francis 2015, para. 66).

The Dominion Model suggests that we as humans were given Earth as a gift from God and that he has thus bestowed unto us the power of dominion over His other creations. While this is true, the illusion of superiority and anthropocentrism has grown from this belief system. We are not at the center of God’s creations. Despite being granted differentiating attributes, such as speech and reasoning, we are of equal value and are meant to give back to the earth just as much, if not more, of what we take from it. Pope Francis declares, “…human beings, endowed with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between the creatures of this world…” (Francis 2015, para. 68). The imbalances that we have continued to justify and belittle are beginning to catch up to us. Pope Francis’ letter is intended on preventing humanity from falling too far into our narcissist ways and we must begin to change and restore the earth to a state of equilibrium.

A person’s lack of wealth seems to be grounds to marginalize and ignore their value, which irritates the relationships we are supposed to have with our neighbors.

James Frid. Person Sitting Behind Wall Grayscale Photo. Feb. 26, 2018. England. Pexels. Photograph.

We must realize that the longer we continue destroying our home, the less possible it becomes for the next generation to survive and maintain a vital equilibrium.

Markus Spiske. Untitled. Mar. 15, 2019. Germany. Pexels. Photograph.

The industrialization of the earth has a large part to do with the amount of air pollution we are experiencing currently and therefore has been a forerunner of climate change.

Chris LaBoutillier. Photography of Factory. Nov. 10, 2017. United States. Pexels. Photograph.

We dump billions of tons in waste onto the earth yearly, which has been normalized through the “throw away” culture .

Stijn Dijkstra. Photo of Plastics Near Trees. Jun. 29, 2019. Myanmar. Pexels. Photograph.

The purpose of Laudato Si’ is to prevent the world from reaching a point of no return, in which we begin seriously experiencing the breakdown of the earth.

Raphael Brasileiro. Untitled. Jun. 7, 2020. Brasil. Pexels. Photograph.

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• A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood. – Joanne Harris • As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room – the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite. – R. K. Laxman

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Firewood', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_firewood').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_firewood img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba. – Julia Child • Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them. – Maneka Gandhi • Do you know anyone who hasn’t changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We’re all like that, constantly changing. It’s simply honest to report that you’ve changed your mind when you have. When you’re afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that’s where you become confused. – Byron Katie • Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light. – Ameen Rihani • Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What’s closer to nature’s heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can’t you see? It’s just the same with you – and just as vital to nature. – Marcus Aurelius • From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood. – Barbara Kingsolver • Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves. – Ernest Poole • How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood! – Layman Pang • However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? – Saadi • I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it’s become firewood. And there’s this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree. – Andy Goldsworthy • In all this welter of women I still hadn’t got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood – Jack Kerouac • In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. – Wangari Maathai • It is only great pain–that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood–that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us ‘better’–but I know that it makes us deeper. – Friedrich Nietzsche • It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant’s all-in-all. – Fredrika Bremer • Like in Africa, if somebody doesn’t have fuel, they’re still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that’s a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they’re not having to collect water every day. That’s huge for women in the developing world. – Melinda Gates • My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge. – Vandana Shiva • My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war. – Seth Grahame-Smith • My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest. – Sebastian Junger • Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. – Richard Pombo • The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble — to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself. – Philip Connors • The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts. – Chretien de Troyes • The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian – a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal… once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. – Jody Williams • The piano is not firewood — yet. – Regina Spektor • The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation. – Steve Backley • The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree. – Francis Schaeffer • There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn. – Orison Swett Marden • We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains. – Tamae Watanabe • What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. – Swami Satchidananda • When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu’s soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory – not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood. – Arundhati Roy • Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don’t you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature? – Marcus Aurelius • your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house. – Chris Cleave • Your mother sounds like a formidable woman,” Valek said into the silence. “You have no idea,” Leif replied with a sigh. “Well, if she’s anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies,” Valek teased. “Hey!” Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. “Do you know how to use it?” “Of course. I chopped Yelena’s bow into firewood,” Leif joked. – Maria V. Snyder • You’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won’t make you wild. It’s fire. Give up, if you don’t understand by this time that your living is firewood. – Rumi [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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