Holy See calls for promotion of energy efficient initiatives

Pule' Carmel

Sep 21st 2012, 00:15

Eventually human living and solutions are to be found in the better proved logic of experimental Engineering and not in the emotions of Politics nor Religions or Laws of ethics and entertainment.

As I said many times before, Religion and Politics all follow the people and not the other way round, and what is more, all the people follow the ingenuity of only a few people in society as, Galileo, Edison, Volta and Ampere and a few others. And we are so stupid to accept the Government being elected through the mentality of the Majority!! It does ont make sense does it?

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein,

Eventually as people's mentality advances in depth to understand nature around us, all the emotional preaching and soul touching political and law judgements must obey the rules and operations of the cold logic found in a working engineered electronic chip! and not the hearty warm satisfaction and false security found in having faith in an unproved postulate or the illusions of a popular political policy promising the illusions of a breath taking " Magician's show" at the local central religius stone building or that on the steel pillars at Valletta..

Really all this can be compared to the Romantisism of travelling on the old colourful, shaky, rattling and smokey Maltese traditional buses to changing to a more efficient smokless Arriva Bus, which are not perfect in many ways but many people seem to prefer them, with some others they will take longer to make their mind to take up the colder Air conditon systems, prefering to the traditions they knew for so long.

Religions are so interesting and I am sure that if we look deeply in the Bible or the Koran someone will surely find that this efficient energy seeking initiatives/ solutions have already been written down on some page thousand years ago!. If only the Religious people would indicate these solutions beforehand, for it would save a lot of perspirations to the Engineers who seem to go at it on their own, through practical experiments on nature around us.

That is the reason I do believe in evolutions, for my solutions evolve but others seem to think that they are already written but they fail to learn to find them and read them for us from Holy books. Religion and Politics follow the logic of Engineering eventually, they must, in order to stay in public popularity and earn a living!

V. Cauchi

Sep 20th 2012, 18:32

Very good news for the Vatican to be taking interest in such issues. After all it was God who saw everything He had created to be good in Genesis 1, and He was pleased about it. Yet now a crisis of world proportions seems to be looming ever closer with the northern ice packs growing thinner by the year and the climate upheavals the world is facing, and it is up to everyone to rise to the occasion and realise that in most cases, not only environmental, we are living beyond our means and that this is deleterious for individual families and global human society as a whole. And it is certainly not the first time the Catholic Church is advocating prudence and awareness in humanity's return to a cautious and frugal way of life in balance with nature's requirements.

Mr Emanuel Farrugia

Sep 20th 2012, 18:23

"All initiatives that are energy efficient and have the least environmental impact possible should be promoted and supported to encourage the saving of resources and avoiding contamination, the Holy See said in a message for World Tourism Day 2012, being celebrated on September 27. The Holy See urged all sectors to be aware of their respective responsibilities to achieve sustainable forms of tourism".

The Holy See stated, that it is an opportunity to dialogue with the civil world and offers its concrete contribution, based on the Gospel, and also sees it as an occasion to sensitize the whole Church about the importance of this sector from the economic and social standpoint and, in particular, in the context of the new evangelization. The church has of course a big role to play wherever people are and wherever people’s lives are affected through travelling and being welcomed. Tourism has to do with travelling and welcoming of people who want to know places other than where they come from.

The church is not a heavenly entity detached from the world but it is part of the world and has the role of leading the every day events of the world to God. According to one of the documents of the mission of the church, Evangeli nuntiandi, no.8, “the nature and mission of the church is to evangelize.” This means that the church exists in order to make Jesus Christ known and loved throughout the world. In the Bible especially in the Acts 2:5-12 it is recorded that Jerusalem use to be a place where many peoples visited as pilgrims.

The church in its pastoral role encourages good cultural exchanges in Tourism and in its history and tradition which is linked up with faith always makes this available. In its pastoral role also, the church always opens its doors to welcome Tourists and visitors who come to churches and admire or study the beauty and history of the structures in the church buildings.

Emanuel Farrugia [TARXIEN] former student Faculty of Theology UOM

Claudio Cilia

Sep 20th 2012, 18:11

It's very good that they embrace energy efficiency and green alternatives.. now I hope they start working on diversity!