Reflection on Laudato Si’ and Ecology
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Alyssa QuiambaoRam Jolo Santos Present 02/04
Reflection: My Personal Reflection Of Laudato Si’
After reading the summary and seeing the main points of Laudato Si’, it is with a heavy heart that I yearn
for action, a change that starts with humanity, with us. In Chapter 4 of Laudato Si’, I see that the term
Integral Ecology has been the chapter’s key concept, it means that everything is closely related. An
article called “Integral ecology: everything is connected” shows something about Integral Ecology, it says
that if we want to know “why a given area is polluted,” we must study “the workings of society, its
economy, its behavior patterns, and the ways it grasps reality”. I can see that it is often the human
intervention that involves the society’s fascination towards the service business interests and
consumerism because we believe it makes our Earth rich and beautiful, but in reality, it is doing an
opposite effect. I also noticed that on Chapter 2, some of us Christians have misinterpreted the
Scriptures. We must reject the notion where us human beings, being created in the image of God, are
the beings that were given dominion over the earth and absolute domination over other creatures. I
researched some data on how Laudato Si’ has inspired solutions to the current environmental issues,
and it turns out that the encyclical helped mobilize 900,000 Catholics to sign the Catholic Climate
Petition (which included the 1.5 degrees target) and 40,000 Catholics to join Global Climate March
rallies ahead of the Paris summit. Amid both those efforts was the Global Catholic Climate Movement,
itself an anticipatory response to Laudato Si' in its formation ahead of Francis' January 2015 visit to the
Philippines. The Global Catholic Climate Movements caused good effects in nature such as the Tree
Planting for World Youth Day, where “Young Catholics from around the world are gathering in Panama
for World Youth Day, and caring for creation is an important part of the festivities. Franciscan brothers
and youth delegates from Guatemala, Ecuador, Poland, and Panama met in La Pintada district to plant
trees along its principal river.”, This has a positive impact towards forestry and hopefully it may inspire
the rest of the world to plant trees. In the end, all we need is a global consensus, we must all work
together and learn to love, protect and care for mother Earth, this is not only to give a good life for the
present and next generation, but also to show respect to God since nature is His gift to us, and we must
not abuse it.
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