This is the website of the Laudato si’ Global Platform recently launched by the Vatican.
The website will provide resources to help people live out Laudato si’s seven goals: responding to the needs of the earth and the poor, transitioning to an ecological economy, adopting sustainable lifestyles, promoting community engagement, and developing ecological education and spirituality.
POPE FRANCIS
'What we need is a new ecological attitude that will transform our way of living in the world, our lifestyles, our relationship with the earth’s resources, and generally how we look at humanity and living life'.
CARD. PETER TURKSON
Prefect, Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development
“Six years after the encyclical Laudato si’, it is good to think about the world we are leaving to our children, to future generations. The pandemic has made us reflect but the cry of the earth and the poor is becoming increasingly more urgent and heartbreaking.”
The platform aims to promote social change from the bottom up to create a world that treats the planet with respect.
That’s why the Vatican is offering practical resources to include a large number of people in this project.
FR. JOSHTROM ISAAC KUREETHADAM
Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development
“Sociologists tell us that if you reach 3.5% of a group, we have the critical mass. That’s what Mahatma Gandhi did, that’s what Nelson Mandela did, and we hope under the leadership of Pope Francis, within a few years, in this critical decade, we can reach the critical mass.
The platform will run for seven years and is directed to both individuals and groups: from families to parishes, businesses to hospitals, congregations, religious institutes, and cultural associations.”
CAROLINA BIANCHI
The Global Catholic Climate Movement
“I think that this action platform represents a very important instrument because it is something we can all use, individuals, groups, communities. It offers ways to take concrete actions and tools we can use to reach an ecological conversion.”
The platform was set to last seven years since Creation lasted seven days in the book of Genesis, and because the Laudato si’ platform seeks to make long-term impacts.
The first year will be dedicated to reflected on building community, sharing resources, and developing action plans. The next five years will consist of concrete actions, which will be announced at a later date. The last year will be set aside for reflection and contemplating Creation.
TR: JM
