Healing a Broken World - Society of Jesus

Healing a Broken World
(iii) Increase the skills and capacities of scholastics so that they can make
use of the information that they already have. Encourage scholastics
to learn from non-governmental and people‘s organisations working
in the field of ecology.
86] RECOMMENDATION 7: all Conferences are invited to explicitly
include the theme of ecology in their apostolic plans.
[level: Conference; purpose: engagement, awareness]
87] Suggested action/activities
(i) Conferences may select local geographical areas to develop
integrated plans (socio-pastoral, cultural, advocacy, scientific etc)
that concretise their environmental commitment. In selecting the
geographical areas the existence of regional priorities already
decided upon needs to be honoured. As examples we propose the
following:
Appalachian Mountains and Tar Sand areas for North America.
Amazonian region for Latin America.
Democratic Republic of Congo (mining & equatorial forest) and
Malawi (deforestation) for Africa and Madagascar.
The Adivasi-dominated region of central India or the
Northeastern states of India for South Asia.
Mekong Watershed, Mindanao and Pacific Islands for Asia-
Pacific.
Sources of energy and their sustainability for Europe.
(ii) Conferences should be invited to appoint an institution to be in
charge of promoting these initiatives, monitoring the progress made
and evaluating the steps taken. In some cases a commission could
assist the President in formulating a policy on ecology.
(iii) At the provincial level, apostolic plans and activities should include
local and regional environmental concerns.
(iv) The Presidents of the Conferences should select areas / themes of
inter-conference collaboration in specific ecological projects.
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