LINE OF APPROACH AND ACTIONS TO SAVE OUR NATURE

            ‘Love the animals, love the plants, and love everything. If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things.’

 Introduction:

            Life on earth is in trouble. That much we know. But how bad have things become and how fast are eventsmoving? In what will be the sixth grate mass extinction event? Gerardo Caballos of the national Autonomous University of Mexico and his colleagues have assessed, in a paper that came out on 19 June. The report says that vertebrates were vanishing at a rate 114 times faster than normal and that the last similar event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs disappeared, most probably as a result of an asteroids. Since 1900 more than 400 vertebrates have disappeared.

            Another study, led by Mark Williams, identifies some quite extraordinary novelties at the heart of current events. First past extinctions have been driven by massive volcanic outbursts, the disorder caused by major asteroid impact and the wrenching effect of rapid climate change.None of this has really figured in the biological crisis not even climate change, which is still only in its early stages. Instead the extinctions are being driven by the effect of just one single species, Homo sapiens. 

The earth is not the possession of individuals, communities, or nations. The earth is the common house of humankind. Human responsibility in this common house is the greatest. It is very urgent for us to draw a plan- a series of action-to conserve the species of the planet, to care for all forms of life, to protect the natural resources and to promote the beauty and verity in nature.

At the time when we try to set things right, Pope Francis gives us the good news of hope in the future. His recent encyclical, ‘Laudato Si’ summons the whole world to examine our present way of life and re-set a different life-style which supports ecosystems and the life of all species.We are totally convinced that time has come to act, to repair what can be repaired to prepare the future, so that humanity will have further progressed in its evolution in a more conscious and fair world, the Earth will still be capable of providing a shelter for its inhabitants.