Newsletter Article from Eco Pax Mundi Kenya
Posted by Vito on April 23, 2009 |
“What does the commandment “Thou shall not kill” mean when twenty percent of the world’s population consumes resources at a rate that robs poorer nations and future generations of what they need to survive? What does it mean to respect life when 30,000 people die each day from poverty? What does it mean to be stewards of the earth when up to half of all living species are expected to become extinct in the next 200 years?” Thus begins the newsletter of Eco Pax Mundi Kenya, the Community-based Organization organized around the Lake Victoria ecoregion. Ambrose Obongo, promoter of Eco Pax Mundi Kenya, and Eco Pax Mundi Network member, continues by underlining how we are facing “an ecological crisis, which could equally be called an economic crisis, or a poverty crisis. Its public face is the suffering of the poor and the degradation of our environment, at a time when accumulation of wealth and material goods has never occupied our attention more. That is why we see it primarily as a spiritual or moral crisis.”
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Tags: Climate Justice > development > ecology > Kenya > liberation theology > poverty
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