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Environment. Invite integral ecology to the Christmas table

Decompartmentalize, listen … Include parishes in the momentum “By the encyclical Laudato Si” of Pope Francis who, in 2015, placed in the hands of Christians “The environment and the care of creation. Neither secondary nor optional subjects ”. Here are the guidelines that mark out the spiritual and militant journey of Laura Morosini, founder of the ecumenical movement Christians united for the earth.

Christmas differently

A “Lent for the Earth” with 40 days without meat and without fish and “Christmas differently” as “ alternative overconsumption ” are two initiatives, launched in 2013 that it still promotes today. “Offer time, attention. This is what we need most today. “

For Christmas, she now suggests inviting integral ecology to the dinner table and putting “The climate at the heart of the discussion. “ To bring together “Young people, often desperate about the future” seniors “Who must welcome these concerns” and agree “That we must find new answers, together”.

Involved in the organization of the first Christian Assizes for Ecology in 2011, walker for the climate, Laura Morosini, who in 1995 was parliamentary assistant to Marie-Hélène Aubert, the first green MP in the National Assembly, is now trying to converge the trajectories of the youth climate movement with those of the Church. A “Ground of evangelization”, the latter having “A lot to bring them in terms of hope”, she believes.

Green church

The label Green Church, that she founded in 2017, prosperous. “We are at 500! “ A number she hopes to triple. “When 10% of the 12,000 French parishes will have this label, it will be felt in the Church”. Organic markets at the doorstep of places of worship, gardening, short circuits… Collective action is the key, she says, inviting Christian communities to “To put the actions in coherence with the words”.

Considered as a referent voice by the Conference of Bishops of France, it expresses the wish that the latter contribute to putting climate and energy at the heart of its reflections. “The Church reasons in centuries, not in years”, we told him one day. A tempo that “Goes badly with the urgency of the situation”, she replied, calling on the bishops to go further, faster.

The Covid-19 and the first confinement “Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 7%. Exactly what it takes to limit the rise in global temperature by 2 ° C. ” Proof that the way of a “Fair and chosen rationing” is possible, she argues. Gold, “The second confinement reduced us to the state of economic machines. It is wrong to go down this road ”.

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