(images: “Bishop pulling the plug” from Inquirer.net,
”Laudato Si” from ICN, indicatholicnews.com,
“Philippines” from Shutterstock.com)
And, as far as I know, I am the only journalist in the world
who has called for the complete cessation of Chemical Agriculture and institutional
initiation of Organic Agriculture by
my country. Actually, I did that almost 6 years ago yet! (Read my essay, “BIAG
Economics: Brand-New Intellectualization of Agriculture,” 14 April 2016, Primate Change, Blogspot.com.
The Bishops are not talking about the Science of Climate Change – rather, they
are talking about the Conscience
of Climate Change.
Just last week… the
plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)
adopted a stance that would surely prove controversial and perhaps even put in
peril the Church’s financial security. The bishops, headed by CBCP President
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David,
decided that henceforth local churches would no longer accept donations from
enterprises that are “destructive” to the environment, such as fossil fuel
production, mining, and logging. The CBCP statement also urged Church
organizations to withdraw, “not later than 2025,” Church resources from banks
and other financial institutions (that are) “without clear commitments... to
divest from fossil fuels.”
Catholics
making History!
The policy adopted by
the CBCP, the bishops said, was in line with a 2019 pastoral letter encouraging
divestment from industries destructive of the environment, and with Pope
Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, Mi’ Signore” (Praise Be To You, My
Lord), which called on the faithful to “Care for Our Common Home.”
My recommendation as a Catholic is less directly combative
but as effective, if not more so: For farmers to stop causing the generation of
greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides they
apply on crops season after season!
Go whole-hog
organic!
My organic fertilizer comes from what I call the process of weeds-enriched agriculture layup (WEAL)
– how to do WEAL, see my essay, “For A Happier & Healthier Habitat
Philippines! Triple A For Agriculture,” For
A (Happier) Philippines! Blogspot.com.
Unbelievably negligible cost!
In Sunday sermons, the CBCP should
demand that priests relate to the conscience of Catholics the science of
chemical agriculture because the hand-tossing of chemical fertilizers and
hand-spraying of chemical pesticides are very personal – let the conscience
bother the Catholic! The left hand knows what the right hand does!
Further,
my advice to the CBCP is “to clear the conscience of Catholic farmers guilty of
producing GHGs in their farms” by urging them every Sunday to shift 100% to
organic fertilizers and organic pesticides – zero GHGs!
This
tiny country in Southeast Asia will then show the big wide world how to defeat
climate change and simultaneously solve farmer poverty as well as supply
society with healthy foods!@517
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