On October 17, 2014, the UN held the climate change summit at its headquarters in New York. The event brought together political and business leaders as well as activists.
A “meaningful global agreement” is expected to be reached this year.
On October 17, 2013, Leo Brincat, Minister for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, said that efforts must be made to integrate climate change adaptation with the development process and that vulnerable groups are most threatened by climate change.
He was speaking at a conference on climate change: ‘2015 and beyond: what is the future of development and development education in Malta?’.
He stressed that the vulnerable groups in society, such as those with low incomes, were the people most affected by climate change. He could have included also unborn children, about 4,000 of them every year in the Maltese islands, as another affected group.
During the Global Thematic Consultation on Environmental Sustainability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda in May 2013 it was stated that the primal right of every human being is to be born healthy and peaceful.
Ioanna Mari, president of the World Organisation of Prenatal Education Associations, an NGO having a special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nation, said: “If we really desire, as nations and as an international community, to prepare a new ‘eco-conscious, ‘eco-friendly’ generation that respects both the environment and human beings we undoubtedly must give them an ecological education.”
When Thomas Verny, of the University of Toronto, was asked how we should educate the new generation and which is the appropriate time to start such education, he answered: “From the mother’s womb.”
He summarised the result of his research with the words: “Womb ecology, world ecology”. Verny is a psychiatrist, a family therapist and a researcher and author of the book The Secret Life of the Unborn Child.
Maltese society must know that every unborn child bombarded in the womb by physical, chemical, hormonal and psychological toxins – real violence – is already being programmed to develop into an adult who will exercise violence on the environment and human beings.
Pregnant mothers should be protected from external poisons such as addictive substances, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, environmental toxins and radiation and from the psychological toxins of stress, agitation and anxiety.
Pregnant mothers should know that the emotional rejection of their child, their negative thoughts and feelings, imprint traumatic data in the cellular memory and have also been proved to be exceedingly harmful for the proper physical, mental and spiritual development of the child and the future adult.
Pregnant mothers should be protected from external poisons
In contrast, it has been proven that the healthy nutrition and life in general of the mother as well as her internal peace and love for her child have an exceedingly beneficial effect on the child’s and, later, adult’s good health, intelligence and in the construction of a balanced and peaceful character, respectful of human beings and the natural and cultural environment.
The love that the mother and father, in marriage and outside of it, extend to their children, their loving communication with them, the sense of joy of everyday life, the contact with the infinite beauty and harmony of nature and of art have the power to create new beings with an intelligent mind and an open heart embracing humans, the environment, and life.
This is the most fundamental prevention of all dysfunctions. This is also the most simple and effective ecological education.
Brincat may want to consider suggesting to the UN summit the introduction of womb ecology in a meaningful UN global agreement on climate change this year. In an article titled ‘True test for sustainability’ (January 4), he stated that “eco innovation should not remain a buzzword but must be considered as a primary enabling factor”.
Malta had done it before when, in 1988, the UN came out with the concept “the common concern of mankind” after considering Malta’s proposal on climate change.
Pro-Life Day 2015 in Malta will be commemorated by MUCM on Sunday in Valletta with a courtesy call on the President of Malta at 10am, a Concelebrated Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral Valletta at 11am and a manifestation in favour of life from conception at the Oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral at noon.
Tony Mifsud is coordinator of the Malta Unborn Child Movement.