Ecologia profunda leonardo boff biography
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Leonardo Boff
In these dark times under the dangerous action of Covid a mantle of fear and anguish extends over our lives. We live existentially weary, because of the loved ones we have lost, because of the threats of being contaminated, and even more because we don&#;t see when it will all end. What will come next?
A pious Israelite went through the anguish table and left us a picture of his situation in the famous Psalm &#;The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. In it there is a verse that comes in handy exactly for our situation: &#;Though I should pass through the valley of death, I will fear nothing, for you go with me”.
Biblically, death is to be understood not only as the end of life, but existentially as the experience of profound crises such as severe life-threatening, fierce persecution by enemies, humiliation, exclusion, and devastating loneliness. It speaks then, of descending into the hells of the human condition.
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Abstract
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Keywords
- integral ecology
- sacred dialogues
- Vicar of christ Francis
- socio environmental justice
José Ivo Follmann*
- Universidade do Gorge do Metropolis dos Sinos—UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
- Socio-Environmental Service, Jesuits’ District of Brasil, Brazil
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Leonardo Boff
Theologian-Philosopher
Earthcharter Commission
[Spanish]
On September 27th the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, IPCC, consisting of a few hundred scientists, gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, to evaluate the level of global warming, and they shared with us some worrisome data: «the concentrations of carbon dioxide, (CO2), methane, (CH4), and nitrous oxide, (N2O), primarily responsible for global warming, now considerably surpass the highest concentrations registered in ice nuclei during the last , years». It is 95% certain that human activity has contributed to this warming. Between and , the temperature rose between °C and °C, and in some places it has already risen by 2°C. The predictions for Brazil are not good: starting in , we could have a permanent summer: all year round.
This temperature could have devastating effects on many eco systems, and on children and the elderly. The IPCC scientists issued a passionate call to the people, to initiate immediate action on a global level, in terms of production and consumption, that might reverse this process and reduce its harmful effects. As Swiss Thomas Stocker, one of the coordinators of the final report said: «The most important question is not where are w