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"Harmony Earth Our vocation" by Jacques Ellul


God created a garden called Eden to put the man. At the center of all creation, among the stars and the cosmos, creating an Eden, which is a garden, and whose name means "pleasure, delight, pleasure. Earth, our Eden, our pleasure, and everything there was in fact designed for the pleasure of man. Everything was good, beautiful, harmonious and pure, including pleasure. Then the tear. But this land, this unique place made for him, is devoted to this correspondence and this joy. If it is, it must once again become.


The earth, our only home

For this land, torn and fragile, our only place, is our only home. We must, here, to protest energetically against the absurd pretension of man to colonize the "galaxy" and to establish colonies on other planets orbiting station or place in the universe. The novels show us often this futuristic colonies of humans emerging from another planet to escape from a land become uninhabitable. And I say no. No, because it is "colonizing" the space. You have not yet figured out what it means to "colonize"? You have not yet figured out, after the colonization of North African countries by Islam e quella del resto dell’Africa da parte dell’Europa? E la colonizzazione degli indiani ad opera del melting-pot americano! E la colonizzazione dell’America del Sud da parte degli spagnoli e degli inglesi? Non avete ancora capito che ogni colonizzazione causa un duplice disastro, quello del colonizzato e quello del colonizzatore? Non sono niente queste esperienze, quando non c’è stata una sola colonizzazione felice? E volete colonizzare lo spazio, ma cosa installerete in questo spazio? In realtà, e innanzitutto, un fenomenale macchinario bellico. Ecco il senso delle fabbriche nello spazio e dei satelliti delle comunicazioni. Tutto vi è votato alla guerra.
Ritornate, dunque, sulla terra e lavorate per rendere questa human and livable land. Because this is our way out. The earth is our only place. Rediscover the joy of the earth. Instead of hating her because of her disasters, and to destroy it with the exploitation of the agricultural industry, mineral resources of hydrocarbons, instead of delusional waste of this wealth slowly accumulated over millions of years and we run out in decades. Contemplate the fullness of the countryside, the grandeur of the mountains, the majesty of the ocean and the mystery of the forest. This is done for you, if you will people who receive everything you need to be happy, as was the man for millennia. But this land, after the split is not only the garden, bensì anche il luogo di drammi e catastrofi. Ecco l’opera che l’uomo deve realizzarvi: restituire la nostra sola patria a se stessa. Ponendovi l’uomo, Dio gli ha dato questo solo ordine: coltivare e custodire, questo è tutto ciò che dobbiamo fare. Coltivarla bene, in modo da non esaurirla, né renderla orrenda, né snaturarla; custodirla bene, al contempo contro se stessa, in modo da restituirle la sua perduta armonia, e contro noi stessi, in modo da trovare in essa il limite e la misura della nostra hybris! L’uomo misura di tutte le cose, certo. Ma anche la terra, nostro giardino, è la misura di ogni cosa, ossia delle azioni ragionevoli e consentite all’uomo. Avremmo dovuto vezzeggiarla, farne l’oggetto della nostra scelta e della nostra dilezione, per renderla più amena e più conforme allo spirito della sua creazione. Si trattava di armonia. Ma ecco, ancora una volta abbiamo preso una strada radicalmente sbagliata. Da mezzo millennio a questa parte, l’ingegno dell’uomo si è orientato verso la conquista, lo sfruttamento, la grandezza, mentre la sua vocazione era l’armonia. Abbiamo cominciato a distruggere per avere di più. Accumulare beni e distruggere tutto, perdendoli. Stiamo smembrando il giardino, e presto la nostra terra, se continueremo a divorarla così, non sarà altro che un mucchio di ossa senza vita. Le ultime tracce dell’Eden stanno sparendo. È un discorso ecologico? I fear rather that it is an elegy on the death of the earth, and this was not our vocation as men. We were called pretty, and we sense dimly, to create harmony, balance, a fair apportionment of forces and resources, equal sharing of the abundance of the Earth. But this concern was crushed by the power.

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VALTELLINA. VIVIL HOW YOU

This is the advertisement that you meet going up the Valtellina, advertising that has appeared in magazines and it should represent, according to the dictates of tourism marketing, an attraction for tourists who still ignore the existence of a valley at the heart of the Alps
"Valtellina. Live it as you are. "
Now, leaving the last image considerations, the typical fighter of the Rhaetian Alps and the scenery behind him that looks pretty dolomite Valtellina, one wonders what it communicate the phrase" how you live it. " I was convinced that to know and appreciate a different culture would serve a greater openness to the event horizon of otherness, which is astonishing the difference was an exemplary way of knowing. I am reminded of an ancient Greek word, thaumazein, that does not mean just look, but it indicates the ability to marvel at what they do not belong to us and at the same time that we let this stranger manifesti in tutta la sua differenza. Esattamente il contrario di quanto ci comunica la frase della pubblicità: Valtellina. vivitela come siete, che voi siate cittadini di una metropoli o di un villaggio di pescatori, portate con voi il vostro modo di abitare, qui vi troverete a casa. Appunto, nessuna novità, nessuna fatica di adattamento, nessuna meraviglia, nessuna alterità. Mi chiedo perché mai una persona dovrebbe prendersi la briga di viaggiare fino a questa splendida Valle per fare esattamente le cose che farebbe tranquillamente nel proprio salotto. Per la natura? O per l’aria pura? (sempre che di aria pura si possa parlare quando migliaia di veicoli attraversano la Valle formando code chilometriche), non so, ma sono certo che nessuno would opt for a trip to a place that poses as a tourist village. Yes, because the effect of advertising is just that, presenting the Valtellina like a huge holiday village, just like any other in this village in Egypt or Bali, then who cares if the premises are called Valtellina and produce wines for several centuries and English are and professional bullfighters? This is perhaps the tragic fate of many places where the French anthropologist Marc Augé was referring when he spoke of the slow transformation of places non-places, as opposed to their non-identity, non-relational and non-historical, or spaces ephemeral par excellence in which the difference is swept away by a constellation of images and representations of reality common to all users and that this publicity seems to find its complete form.
Valtellina. Live it as you are, because we live in the Valley we have lost the ability to live and therefore we can not communicate to you our culture, and perhaps even our landscape: the choice of a background in advertising as similar to a valley of Trentino Alto Adige it is the dramatic proof.

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Fourth International Seminar

TERRA MATER

CARTA DI GUBBIO 2007

Nel venticinquesimo anniversario della formulazione della Carta di Gubbio 1982, i partecipanti al Quarto Seminario Internazionale Terra Mater (Gubbio 24-27 settembre 2007) ritengono necessario riproporre la concezione francescana della natura non solo ai credenti, ma a tutti gli uomini, per la sua straordinaria forza, in un momento in cui la situazione del pianeta appare più preoccupante che mai.
Negli ultimi anni, si sono moltiplicati gli appelli allarmati di esponenti the scientific community, aimed particularly at the political authorities. The necessary changes are slow to get going, however: the spring of fear is not enough to overcome the culture of profit as an end in itself, nor to diminish the impulse to consume that causes it continually.
The progressive reduction in reserves of oil and gas makes it increasingly difficult energy supply, leading to bloody conflicts also. The academies
denounce the phenomenon of climate change, linked to heavy reliance on fossil fuels: the increase in speed of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere disrupts the stability of equilibria and periodic phenomena that determine the climate.

It must therefore change quickly the structure of the energy balance, knowing that it is now possible to replace fossil fuels, nuclear energy, for the problems that this has yet to be resolved.
the middle of the emergency, in addition to energy and climate problems, also fit the loss of biodiversity, massive deforestation, pollution, destructive effects on the environment and the framework of the painful degenerative diseases, the deterioration of urban centers The continuing scandal of poverty and hunger in the world, forcing millions of people to emigrate. The eighth anniversary
centenary of the arrival in Gubbio S. Francis - who attends the lepers here at the peak of his conversion - suggests looking in his figure the inspiration for a radical change of perspective.
Franciscan teaching, which is based on the brotherhood of all creatures, living and nonliving, man pointed to a model in which, after eight centuries, believers and nonbelievers can still meet.
lifestyle that follows shows all the "good life" as part of a culture of limits, rather than the unlimited growth and consumption without measure.

To this end, Terra Mater

believes it is essential that - by technological progress increased enormous power to manipulate nature, become so vulnerable - are necessary un'aggravata human responsibility in terms of defense of natural systems and restore their balance, and observe a policy of requiring caution not to adopt innovations unless they have a reasonable assurance of their safety;


that the awareness of increasingly serious environmental crisis is mirrored by a growth of individual responsibility, so that each not only to refrain from conduct injurious, but engaged in a critical vigilance and promotes active protection of 'environment in the common good;
that are taken in the consumption of goods and resources, practices of moderation, not excess the extent required by the basic needs: this means the renunciation of objects, habits and comfort levels are not necessary, in a perspective of frugality in lifestyle;
governments, institutions, individuals and companies pursue, with determination and perseverance, experimentation and use of alternative energies, from concentrated sources of energy, like fossil fuels and nuclear energy, from sources all over the territory and that they - along with saving energy - are to center of public policy and private behavior;
that "consumption of the world ceases to be a structural element of being umano nella civiltà industriale e tecnologica, e l’ambiente sia vissuto come il sistema delle realtà naturali e culturali di cui l’uomo fa parte originariamente e indissolubilmente;
che si individuino nuove sedi di decisione politica a livello planetario per superare i tradizionali rapporti diplomatici tra gli Stati e consentire ad una pluralità di soggetti e agenzie (organizzazioni non governative, associazioni imprenditoriali, ecc.) la partecipazione ai processi decisionali;
che si ridefiniscano profondamente le ragioni dei rapporti economici ineguali tra Paesi industrializzati e Paesi in via di sviluppo, con particolare riferimento alle politiche agricole e all’imposizione di monocolture, che impoveriscono la biodiversità e rendono i Paesi che le adottano maggiormente soggetti a crisi e conflitti;

che la donna, come nella visione francescana, sia riconosciuta nella sua dignità e nella pienezza dei suoi doni e valorizzata come portatrice di un’etica della cura, la quale, in quanto alternativa alla cultura del dominio, assume la natura e l’ambiente tra i propri oggetti privilegiati;
che si riconosca la dimensione culturale del rapporto tra uomo e natura nella forma del paesaggio, espressione e patrimonio di una comunità che, nella propria interpretazione dell’abitare, non tradisca le dimensioni storiche, identitarie e simboliche del luogo;
che si privilegi l’esperienza diretta dei luoghi e degli ambienti, da contemplare, cross, learn, to enjoy and benefit from it aesthetically;
you implement a permanent environmental education (involving schools, institutions, associations, businesses, media) in view of complexity, understood as a systemic vision of reality, both in its Scientific and environmentally friendly, both the ethical and behavioral, focusing on direct experiences in the area;
that assumes an attitude towards animals inspired by the more advanced sensitivity, sparing them the possible ill-treatment and suffering (in particular, exploiting the methodologies alternatives to animal testing) and everything is done to protect endangered species d’estinzione; analogo atteggiamento di rispetto venga adottato nei confronti del mondo vegetale e minerale: S. Francesco ci insegna che un’etica che si occupa solo degli umani rischia di essere disumana. Il suo umanesimo, per la sua apertura cosmica, può definirsi ecologico.
A un quarto di secolo dalla “profetica” Carta di Gubbio 1982, Terra Mater indirizza di nuovo ogni uomo sul cammino di S. Francesco, alla riscoperta dei valori fondamentali dell’abitare la Terra.

TERRA MATER
Assisi Nature Council (A.N.C.)
Associazione Italiana per il World Wildlife Fund (W.W.F. Italia)
Associazione Nazionale Italia Nostra
Bureau Européen de l’Environnement (B.E.E.)
Franciscan Center for Environmental Studies
Italian Alpine Club (CAI)
Club of Rome Commune of Gubbio

Mountain Community High Chiascio "Gubbio
Conference of Ministers General of the Franciscan Family Four:
Order of Friars Minor (OFM)
Order of Friars Minor Capuchins (OFMCap.)
Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFMConv)
Third Order Regular of St. Francis (TOR)
National Animal Control Authority (ENPA)
Italian Federation ProNature - Federnatura
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN)
Italian Institute of Bioethics
Legambiente
League Italian animal rights (LIDA)
Italian Bird Protection League (LIPU)
Mountain Wilderness Italy
Planning Environmental and Ecological Institute
Province of Perugia Umbria

Italian Society of Ecology (S.It.E.)
Society for International Development (SID)
World Futures Studies Federation