Environmentalists Appreciate Pope Francis – Ed O´Rourke
Many environmentalists are Pope Francis fans. American Gaia, representing umpteen organizations wrote a thank you letter. See these excerpts and see the source at: https://americangaia.me/004-pope-francis/
Sincerely,
Ed
You also explain that humans depend on one another. Using the term “human ecology” (in contrast to the natural ecology that puts humans in relation to non-humans), you want us to look out for each other, especially the strong for the weak.
To prepare for the event you published your letter Laudate Deum on October 4, 2023. Much shorter than your 2015 encyclical Laudato Sí, it cut straight to the chase: You explained that if one surveyed all greenhouse gas emissions produced since 1850 (the Industrial Revolution), one would find that over forty percent had been pumped into the atmosphere after 1990, when the world was already well aware of the Greenhouse Effect.
| Laudato si’ (24 May 2015) | FrancisEncyclical Letter Laudato si’ of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015) |
You admonished us to end our love affair with the technocratic paradigm, which believes that we can invent and power ourselves out of our current predicament and otherwise pursue economic growth as usual. The problem with this paradigm is that it continues to see non-human reality as a mere resource and fails to address habitat destruction and species extinction.
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