Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Serendipity seriously

serendipity seriously??

Who finds resonance with Laudato Si?

Naomi Klein reports on efforts to bring the climate change message to Toronto

CBC, the Current, series on design discusses how Bruce Mau wants to help shape a better future for all of us
Bruce Mau is co-founder of the Massive Change Network

Monday, June 29, 2015

Laudato Si and species disappearing

What does a news article on pink salmon threatened by greenhouse gases have to do with Laudato Si?



33. It is not enough, however, to think of different species merely as potential “resources” to be exploited, while overlooking the fact that they have value in themselves. Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost for ever. The great majority become extinct for reasons related to human activity. Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. We have no such right.

(2015). Laudato si' (24 May 2015) - La Santa Sede. Retrieved June 29, 2015, from http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html.

Liberation from the dominant technocratic paradigm