Posted on 11/30/2018 3:54:16 PM PST by ebb tide
The United Nations conference on climate is coming up, to be held in early December in Poland, and the Holy See - or rather the pontifical academy of sciences headed by Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo - has already said its piece, hosting an international conference at the Vatican in mid-November on “Climate change, the health of the planet, and the future of humanity,” and entrusting to the Malthusian economist Jeffrey Sachs the task of dictating the new “decalogue” of salvation: enough with the coal, enough with the oil, enough with the gas, more electricity, less meat, etc.
Sachs is by now a mainstay of the Vatican’s new environmental course, inaugurated by the encyclical “Laudato si’.” But he is not the only one. While the conference of the pontifical academy of sciences was underway, the Politecnico di Milano hosted a conference in support of biodynamic agriculture, which is another of the Vatican’s favorite new commandments, in particular of its official newspaper, “L’Osservatore Romano.”
Carlo Triarico, the president of the Association for Biodynamic Agriculture in Italy, is a regular contributor to the newspaper of the Holy See, including front-page editorials. And this in spite of the fact that the farming method he upholds has been branded as completely unscientific by almost all of the experts.
This was seen, in fact, on the occasion of the conference at the Politecnico. When a large number of scientists - led by the illustrious pharmacologist and senator for life Elena Cattaneo - mobilized to prevent the university of scientific faculties of Milan from hosting a gathering of supporters of the faming practice devised a century ago by the Austrian esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who was convinced that he could fertilize fields with cosmic energies drawn by manure-covered cow’s horns (see photo) and deer bladders full of yarrow flowers, buried and dug up according to astrological alignments.
Naturally the defenders of biodynamic agriculture defended their theories and the conference was held anyway, thanks in part to the support of the Italian Fund for the Environment, whose honorary president, Giulia Maria Crespi, uses this agricultural model on her property and has propagated it for years.
Giulia Maria Crespi was also, in the past, the owner of “Corriere della Sera,” the leading Italian newspaper, which in fact in covering the controversy sided more with biodynamic agriculture than with its critics.
This time “L’Osservatore Romano” remained silent. In January of 2017 Settimo Cielo had taken a look at the strange bedfellowship between the Vatican newspaper and the president of the Association for Biodynamic Agriculture, after Triarico had written an article implicating climate change in the outbreak of war in Syria.
But the union between Triarico and “L’Osservatore” stayed intact. Even after a few letters of protest. And even after in May of 2018 the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa - another temple of scientific high culture in Italy - had arraigned the newspaper of the Holy See for the criticisms, held to be defamatory, that Triarico had made against a scientific study on genetically modified corn.
The director of the newspaper of the Holy See, Giovanni Maria Vian, has also acted as moderator of conferences in support of biodynamic agriculture.
But it must be noted that Triarico’s last article for “L’Osservatore Romano” bears the date of September 28. Two months have passed since then. Whether this silence marks the beginning of a parting of the ways remains to be seen.
(English translation by Matthew Sherry, Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.A.)
...faming practice devised a century ago by the Austrian esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who was convinced that he could fertilize fields with cosmic energies drawn by manure-covered cow’s horns (see photo) and deer bladders full of yarrow flowers, buried and dug up according to astrological alignments.
Ping
I suppose this stuff is popular with those people who call us “science deniers”.
Whether or not is has any practical advantages, it's nothing for pontifical nabobs to -- uh,pontificate about.
Although, on balance, it's all pretty harmless compared to the Stop Carbon Dioxide Cult, which could rob millions and starve billions. And make a tidy bundle for St. Leonardo of Caprio.
Lysenko scientism.
Has Bergoglio said anything nice about Humanae Vitae lately?
hope someone will post this as an article asap:
30 Nov: WUWT: Anthony Watts: #Climategate continues – (Michael) Mann tries to get ahead of his legal problem, releases his own version of emails
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/30/climategate-continues-mann-tries-to-get-ahead-of-his-legal-problem-releases-his-own-version-of-emails/
Is there some reason you can’t post this?
Biodynamics! I hadn’t thought of that for decades; it was a big deal in some hippie communes in the 70s, and even they had to admit it was nonsense.
Rudolf Steiner was a Catholic priest who went off the rails and got into all sorts of nonsense, basically developing his own religion, which included reincarnation and everything else trendy in 19th/early 20th century “spiritualist” circles. He had some decent educational theories (that is, don’t beat the children, considered pretty revolutionary in his day!) and the schools still do well (and are super expensive). The anthroposophists also ran homes or communities for the developmentally disabled, since they believed that the retarded were the souls of geniuses resting for their next life. While that was nonsense, the residents were well treated.
Very strange, but not surprising, to see that this foolishness is being supported by the Vatican. I wish the whole Vatican state, including its head, would collapse into the Tiber.
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