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Rush to Riches

Rush to Riches. The Curse of Plenty. Dedicated to Noah. I establish My covenant with you and with every living creature. (Compassion) I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. (Conservation) Genesis 9: 8 -11. Blessed are you poor

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Rush to Riches

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  1. Rush to Riches The Curse of Plenty

  2. Dedicated to Noah I establish My covenant with you and with every living creature. (Compassion) I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. (Conservation) Genesis 9: 8 -11

  3. Blessed are you poor Blessed are you who hunger now Blessed are you who weep now Blessed are you when men hate you, exclude you, revile you Woe to you who are rich Woe to you who are full Woe to you who laugh now Woe to you when all men speak well of you Blessings & Curses = Luke 6: 20-26

  4. Earth – A Sacred Balance Nature is at our disposal not as “a heap of scattered refuse”, but as a gift of the Creator who has given it an inbuilt order, enabling man to draw from it the principles needed in order. CV 4, 48

  5. Pope Benedict XVI “The Church has a responsibility towards creation and she must assert this responsibility in the public sphere. In so doing, she must defend earth, water and air as gifts of creation that belong to everyone.” CV 4, 51

  6. Our Story Compared to Job • It tells the story of man who losses everything; Wealth, Family, Health • And wrestles with the question “WHY?” “Why did I not die at Birth? Why did I did not perish when I came from the womb?” Job 3: 11-12

  7. Three Unkind Friends or Scientists • Eliphaz the Temanite (Geologist) • Bildad the Shuhite (Cosmologist) • Zophar the Naamathite (Ecologist) • Job 2: 11

  8. Curse on Lithosphere (Land) Sister Earth – St. Francis Be Praised, My Lord, through Our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and guides us and produces diverse fruits with colored flowers and herbs

  9. Disrupting the Sacred Balance When land does well for its owner, and the owner does well by his land; we have Sacred Balance. When one or the other grows poor, we do not. (Aldo Leopold)

  10. Violations on Land Ethics • Land Ethics means harmony between men and land. • The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land

  11. Curse of Plenty Renewable and Non Renewable • Plants, animals, microbes, medicinal plants • Fresh water, fish, climate, air, fertile soil • Fossil fuel, coal, oil, peat, natural gas • Metals, iron ore, gold, copper, aluminum • Rocks, sand, precious stones

  12. A Crucified Land

  13. Curse on Hydrosphere (Water) • Sister Water – St. Francis • Be praised my Lord, through Sister Water, who is very useful and humble and precious and pure

  14. Industry and Globalization • The requirements of justice must be safeguarded … in which the capital was generated and the harm to individuals that will result if it is not used where it was produced, without making a real contribution to local society CV 3, 40

  15. Populorum Progressio Today the material resources available for rescuing these peoples from poverty are potentially greater than before, but they have ended up largely in the hands of people from developed countries, who have benefited more. (Pope Paul VI)

  16. Curse on Atmosphere (Air) • Brother Wind – St. Francis • Be praised, my Lord, through Brother Wind, and through Air and Cloud and fair and all Weather by which you nourish all that you have made

  17. Curse on Biosphere (Life) • Brothers and Sisters – St Francis • Same Origin – God • Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine “From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.”John Muir

  18. A Kingdom of Life is The Kingdom of God Curse on the Kingdom of God • Kingdom of God is Creation itself • 1. The Kingdom of Monera • 2. The Kingdom of Protista • 3. The Kingdom of Fungi • 4. The Kingdom of Plantae • 5. The Kingdom of Animalia

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