Representatives of Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist cults have conducted a symbolic action against the “climatic bombs” that are Tilenga and Eacop projects in Uganda and Tanzania.
by Rémi Barroux
After scientists, street blockers, SUV tire dumblacks or soup launchers in museums, the front of activists mobilized for the climate has further expanded. Representatives of five religions – Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist – made an appointment, Tuesday, November 29, in front of a Totalnergies station, in the 15
The target? The Tilenga and Eacop projects (Brut OilDuc of East Africa), the operation of petroleum resources in the Lake Albert region in Uganda and the construction of a giant cross -border pipeline in Tanzania, “the heated pipeline The longest in the world “, denounce the opponents, who would lead to” the expropriation of 100,000 people “and” would reject the equivalent of 379 million tonnes of co 2 “, or 34 million tonnes per year. In the viewfinder too, Crédit Agricole, “first financial support of Total”.
In front of the station, whose access was not blocked and where the surprised motorists came to be in full swing, these spokespersons explained the reasons for their commitment to an action of “civil disobedience”, supported by Two dozen activists. The action was organized by Greenfaith (“Green Faith”), an NGO born in the United States in 1992 and become international at the time of the COP21 of Paris, in 2015, and XR Spirit, the “Spirituality” branch of Rébellion Rebellion , whose birth, in France, was formalized in July 2022.
Large banners reflect this religious commitment: for Catholics, “Delive us of total”, for the Jews, “even more oil leads us to the sheol [” stay of the dead “]” or even, for Muslims , “For a planet in balance, yallah yallah!”.
commandments of the thora
For Anouar Kbibech, 61, president of the Rally of Muslims in France since 2007, which brings together 300 mosques, “respect for the planet, of its safeguard, is an integral part of the Muslim faith”. While quoting many verses from different suras, the one who was also president of the French Council for Muslim worship from 2015 to 2017, believes that “this concern is not carried out enough by the Muslim community”.
The Rabbi Yeshaya Dalsace, 65, says nothing else. Specialist in the question – he wrote his rabbinat thesis in 2000 on the relationship between ecology and Judaism -, he also believes that “it is not necessarily the primary concern, it is not an obsession, he n ‘There’s not just this problem. ” However, he recalls, “the Torah tells us that we are not the owner of the earth” and that “destroying a tree is prohibited”: that is part of the 613 commandments of the Thora.
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