Jesus is adequate for
the whole needs of humanity:
Not exact matches
For all the flaws
of the Church's human members Lumen Fidei makes absolutely clear that we believers, and in fact the
whole of humanity,
need the Church because through her «we come to see the face
of Jesus».
We
need to show how Christ impacts on the
whole of humanity: the Spirit is only ever given, to arouse the thirst for truth and goodness, because
of Christ's Sacrifice at the centre
of history.
For the sake
of the
whole of humanity and for the sake
of generations still to come, we
need to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons.
The ability
of communities and
humanity as a
whole, to respond, adapt, and sustain the resilience
needed to maintain ecological sustainability and equity in the face
of external and internal forces
of change, including through respecting conditions, like diversity, enabling the resilience
of nature.
Letting the
whole measurement estate fall into rack and ruin until it all goes t ** s up and a band
of volunteers is
needed to record the shambles, then making a post-hoc rationalisation that it didn't matter anyway, is not the textbook recommended way to work on «the most important problem facing
humanity»
It's one
of the (many) ironies
of this
whole debate that some see heroic collective action as the only way to avoid catastrophe (one comment I've read recently is that we
need a «World War II scale effort to save
humanity from self - destruction.»)
The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we
need to be going in terms
of the highest level
of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying
whole swaths
of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against
humanity, a crime against life itself.