The Salesian University on the Front Lines for Ecological Conversion

Vatican News ^ | 3/15/22 | Cecelia Seppia

[marshmallow]

The Pontifical Institute has launched an energy efficiency project aimed at reducing consumption by installing renewable energy sources across its campus. Fr. Andrea Bozzolo, the Univesity's Rector, notes that by becoming a ‘Laudato si’ university, we are responding to the cries of the Earth and to those of the poor, aspiring to new lifestyles and promoting a vision of Creation as a gift from God.

Imagine a dense forest of over 4000 trees soaring towards the sky, as large as Italy’s Island of Ventotene. Imagine the oxygen that 4000 trees are able to produce and the injection of pure air that they can give to a planet that is now suffocating. But also imagine the beauty of a world that finally returns green. This is the scope of the energy efficiency project developed by the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS), which at the end of 2021 officially joined the Platform of Laudato si' Initiatives, desired by Pope Francis to promote the values of integral ecology.

The University, thanks to Global Power Service, is installing a system of photovoltaic panels on all the rooves of its buildings to produce clean energy that will replace with the latest generation equipment, the current 6 thermal power plants and will be less polluting and more efficient. This means the University will save the environment 230 tons of CO2 emissions per year, equivalent to planting 580 new trees. However, this hard-working academic community is also committed to reducing the use of plastic, producing fewer paper documents and installing electric vehicle recharging stations. "In order to achieve all this - says Fr. Andrea Bozzolo, Rector of UPS - there is, however, a fundamental step needed: the conversion of behavior. Each of us is called to be ecological in our daily lives and to infect, with a new mentality........

[Maudeen]

In the meantime, people are dying and going to hell.

(John 3:16) For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

[Bookshelf]

Big effing deal. In my lifetime, as a private citizen, I have probably planted more than one percent of the trees these phoneys are planning.

[.44 Special]

Sounds to me like they are doing lots of LSD.

[LadyDoc]

It is worse than it appears.
The Saletian fathers were founded by John Bosco to work in the slums and start programs to teach street kids about Jesus and educate them in skills....this is still a big problem, for abandoned children who often would slip into a life of crime and drugs/alcoholism.

So ecology is outside their charism, that is it has nothing to do with why they were founded nor the aim of their schools etc.

Franciscans are portrayed as ecology types but again they were founded to preach the gospel to the poor and opposed exploitation of workers by the growing merchant class.

The real ecologists were the Benedictines, whose most famous work was education and libraries, but whose farms introduced modem farming techniques in the middle ages. The tv series Brother Cadfael shows their work restoring wasteland into productive farms.

[ZULU]

Marxist Pope. John Kerry must have stuffed his shorts.