Consider this Frank Hilario’s Blogal Warning, a 3-decades-delayed response to Al Gore’s Global Warning: We need to change
perspectives about Climate Change. Houston, we have a problem! Today, the
Global Village is in fact that the electric impulse connects us all through the
Internet, as Marshall McLuhan predicted
– yet the Global Village is fiction in that the connection is divisive and not
distributive, elitist and not equitable, devoid of commitment to community,
without a shared vision – absence of global warming to combat the global enemy.
Whose fault is it? THE PRIMATES, THE GREAT THINKING APES – THE US!
And so it makes me
extremely glad to read today, “Pope Francis: ‘A Moral Giant In A World Gone Crazy’”
by 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria
Ressa, a compatriot. It turns out that Ms Ressa is a patriot for the
times – Climate Change Times (my
term).
Ms Ressa says, "Pope Francis’ foundation, Fratelli Tutti, asked us to convene in
2023, and our private and public discussions gave me great hope that if we keep
working together, we could help prevent the worst.”
Ms Ressa had been
invited with other Nobel winners to Pope Francis’ residence at the Vatican to
discuss what they thought man could do to stop Climate Change – see her article
“Pope Francis: ‘A Moral Giant In A World Gone Crazy’” (rappler.com):
Pope Francis taught me that faith is essential to
surviving – and thriving – in the creative destruction we are living through.
Yes, Ma’am, you
put it brilliantly: What we are going through is “creative destruction.”
Pope Francis’ foundation, Fratelli Tutti, asked us to convene in 2023, and our private
and public discussions gave me great hope that if we keep working together, we
could help prevent the worst.
Yes Sir, yes
Ma’am: “We could help prevent the worst.”
Ms Ressa also
says:
The man born Jorge
Mario Bergoglio led by example: kind, simple, beatific – a moral giant
in a world gone crazy. As the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, God’s
representative on earth, he focused on social justice, linking economic
inequality to climate change. He spoke against the sexual abuse of children by
priests, and changed the tone of the Vatican on homosexuality. He spoke against
war – in Ukraine and Gaza repeatedly – and changed the power structure of the
Church hierarchy, shifting it away from Europe to Latin America, Asia, and
sub-Saharan Africa.
More on technology:
He took a stand against the dehumanizing
impact of technology (FAH’s emphasis) and – although he didn’t
say this explicitly – against the electoral manipulation on social media that
brought 72% of the world today under authoritarian rule.
Until the Vatican reached out to me, I would call
myself a wayward Catholic … But since Pope Francis brought us together, I have
now been to the Vatican four times in less than two years.
Go on Ms Ressa!
Changing yourself, changing primates!@517
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