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Title: | Where ecology of no hope can find hope |
Authors: | Vassallo, Josette |
Keywords: | Ecology -- Religious aspects Ecology -- Philosophy |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Theology |
Citation: | Vassallo, J. (2005). Where ecology of no hope can find hope. Melita Theologica, 56(1), 3-12. |
Abstract: | Most journals and newspapers today often make reference to an ecological crisis. Human negligence, too much waste or better far too much production for what humans need, have proved that we have disrespected our universe beyond control and somehow we have to pay the consequences for it now. Looking for our conversion to improve this 'relationship' with the habitat could give hope and life to something that is dying and suffering. An Ecology Of Hope could be useful today to overcome the present state of ecological awareness that often encounters an ultimate sense of meaninglessness. A lack of vision can give rise to a mood of cosmic loneliness especially when it is embedded in an inability to see beyond the horizons of the present. An ecological awareness with a more hopeful vision does not allow the past and the present to determine the future, but wants to present a final escape that could be beneficial to humanity and to the cosmos. To be able to come out of a spiral of hopelessness, an act if imagination is needed; to foresee possible futures amidst all despair and thus a complete change of mentality towards creation by individuals, politicians, businessmen and agricultural industry is needed. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/32215 |
Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 56, Issue 1 - 2005 MT - Volume 56, Issue 1 - 2005 |
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