WHAT LAUDATO SÍ MEANS TO MALAWI

Authors

  • Alex Muyebe DVK
  • Peter Henriot DVK

Keywords:

Climate Change, Deforestation, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Laudato Sí, Malawi, Pope Francis

Abstract

as one of the poorest countries in the world. It faces serious climatechange problems (floods and droughts) caused by deforestation that is closely linked to its main export earning crop, tobacco. The strong words of Pope Francis’s Laudato Sí, recognising the reality of climate change and its impact on the poor, is very relevant to Malawi. One practical response to curtailing deforestation is the promotion of small
clay stoves (mbaula) that do not use charcoal or large amounts of fire wood for cooking purposes. Another response is found in the construction and instruction of the new Jesuit secondary school supporting a “green” (environmentally sensitive) culture.

Author Biographies

Alex Muyebe , DVK

Alex Muyebe, SJ, a Malawian citizen, holds a LLM in Corporate Finance Law
from University of Warwick. He is Director of the Jesuit Centre for Ecology and
Development, Lilongwe, Malawi (www.jced.amalocal.co.zm). Email:
alexmuyebe@gmail.com.

Peter Henriot, DVK

University of Chicago. He has worked 27 years in Zambia and Malawi and currently works with Loyola Jesuit Secondary School, Kasungu, Malawi. (www.loyolamalawi. org). Email: phenriot14@gmail.com

References

Pope Francis, Laudato Si, Vatican, 2015, 1.

United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report, New York, 2014.

Oxford University Department of International Development, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Oxford: 2015.

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Published

2015-10-31

How to Cite

Muyebe , A. ., & Henriot, P. . (2015). WHAT LAUDATO SÍ MEANS TO MALAWI. Asian Horizons, 9(04), 741–747. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2608

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 04 (2015): ASIAN HORIZONS

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